Expertise I

BI & Data Analytics

A 360° view of your business, built on a reliable data warehouse and a reporting layer your teams actually use.

Business Intelligence has been SOFALI’s core business since 2007. We design, build and operate the decision-support platforms of industrial and financial groups: modelling, data loading, quality, reporting. The goal is not to produce charts, but decisions.

The problems we address

Manual consolidation that ties up your teams at every closing
Indicators whose definition changes from one department to the next
Reporting delivered too late to influence decisions
An ageing warehouse that is costly to evolve, or no warehouse at all
Self-service BI that grew without rules or a shared model

What we do

Business requirements and indicator definition: KPIs, business rules, data dictionary
Warehouse architecture and modelling: data warehouse, data marts, star schema, Data Vault
Loading and integration pipelines: ETL/ELT, orchestration, monitoring
Decision models and performance management: consolidation, variance tracking, multi-dimensional analysis
Reporting, dashboards and governed self-service BI for business departments
Takeover and modernisation of existing BI platforms
Run and maintenance of your BI environments, from Paris or from our Casablanca service centre

Data Visualisation: an integral part of the work

A good dashboard answers a question in under ten seconds. Designing the reporting layer is part of every BI project: visual hierarchy, levels of detail, navigation, performance, user adoption. It has its own page: Data Visualisation.

Typical use cases

Financial steering and management control: multi-entity consolidation, P&L, cash
Industrial performance: production, quality, maintenance, supply chain
Sales steering: revenue, margins, customer portfolio

How we work

Scoping with your business leaders, starting from the decisions to be made rather than the data available
Iterative delivery, by functional scopes released and used as the project progresses
Senior supervision in France and, depending on the set-up, delivery from our Casablanca service centre
Handover to your teams: documentation, training, autonomy in analysis

What you get

A single, documented, governed source of truth
Indicators produced at the pace of your decisions, without waiting for month end
Business teams that are autonomous in their analyses

Technology

The technologies we implement on BI projects: SQL, DataHub / ODS / DWH, Oracle Data Integrator, star-schema modelling, Tableau, Power BI, PostgreSQL.

Case studies

All case studies

Supply chain · International industrial equipment manufacturer

Predicting on-time delivery, order by order

Turning seven years of orders accumulated in the Operations datamart into a forecast of On Time Delivery for the months ahead, delivered in the dashboard the teams already use.

Volume: 5.6 million lines
Depth: 7 years of orders
Delivery format: BI dashboard, star schema

Artificial Intelligence & Automation · BI & Data Analytics

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Finance · Finance department of an industrial group

Predicting the collection date of every customer invoice

Replacing theoretical due dates with the actual payment behaviour of each customer account, and delivering the forecast in the report the finance team already opens.

Volume: Consolidation of several group ERPs
Depth: Invoices since 2017
Delivery format: BI dashboard by customer account

Artificial Intelligence & Automation · BI & Data Analytics

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