What We Do

Intelligence Specialization.

01.
Expert Dedication

Enterprise Intelligence

With Risk Management having taken centre stage as probably the most compelling issue of our time and most operational tasks and processes re-evaluated from a perspective of risk, Enterprise Intelligence is experiencing a revived appreciation.

How an enterprise prospers in the face of risk, while responding to unplanned events (positive and negative), is deemed a prime indicator of its fitness to succeed.

We provide the following services:

  • Enterprise (Business) Intelligence.
  • Analysis.
  • Strategy Management.
  • Planning.

… and Enterprise Intelligence related:

  • IT Solutions and Services.
  • Project Management.
  • Training.

Regarding IT, we have a bias for SAP solutions.

02.
How WE DO

Engagement

What is the basic process by which we engage with our Client?

  • The Client identifies a relevant need.
  1. The need is intimated to RISC.
  2. Through consultation, we determine the requirement that will best address the need.
  3. We present our draft proposal for fulfilment of the requirement and validate and optimize it in coordination with the Client.
  4. Our validated and optimized draft proposal becomes our submission.
  5. Upon approval of our submission, we realize it.

Throughout the process, there is also the important thread of fulfilling all administrative requirements.

03.
How we Approach

The Intelligence Process:

We approach Enterprise (Business) Intelligence as a complement of the Collection, Analysis, and Dissemination of information, within which we discern 5 stages of information processing, namely:

  1. Conception (sampling, planning and blueprinting), 
  2. Collection (data sourcing), 
  3. Composition (translation, transformation and integration), 
  4. Correlation (interrogation, analytics, validation and reporting) and 
  5. Consummation (enabling actionable insights by appropriate recipients).

 

Enterprise Intelligence faculty, refers to the intelligence capacity or potential of an Enterprise. The latent ability of an Enterprise to acquire and apply the necessary knowledge and related skills.

Enterprise Intelligence function, refers to the intelligence performance of an Enterprise. The exerted ability of an Enterprise in acquiring and applying the necessary knowledge and related skills.

In our engagement we discern between faculty and function with due consideration of their reciprocal importance.

Marike du Plooy

Skills

  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Business Ownership
  • Training
  • Solution Architecture
  • Systems Analysis
  • Business Analysis
  • SAP BI (ETL, Queries, BO, Dashboards).

Qualifications

  • BA MBW, BA Hons.

Microsoft:

  • Technology Specialist – Specialist Web developer
  • Technology Specialist – Professional Web developer.
  • SQL Server 2005 – Designing a BI Solution Architecture for the Enterprise.
  • SQL Server 2008 – Integrated Services.

SAP / Other:

  • Business Objects Xcelsius.
  • Business Objects Data Services Solution Consultant.
  • Business Objects Web Intelligence Solution Consultant.
  • Business Objects Edge – Level 1 Solution Consultant.
  • Business Objects Crystal.
  • Lumira (Discovery and Designer).
  • ARIS business process modelling.
  • Lean Six Sigma business process training – Yellow belt.

Designation

Office: Director.
Professional Role: Project Manager, Analyst, Business Intelligence Specialist.

Experience

25+ years’ experience combining Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Systems Analysis, Marketing, and Management, including extensive implementations, migrations, and support projects in SAP solutions, across the manufacturing, transport, retail, transport, construction, banking, financial, consulting, tertiary education, government, petro-chemical, and communications sectors.

Personal Observation

In my view – whatever the strategy – the leadership of an organization essentially has to decide what present and future upside risks (opportunities) they find worthy to pursue in the face of their accompanying downside risks (threats).

I believe there should NOT be a preoccupation with downside risk; instead: realistic management of both upside and downside risk is at the heart of business growth and wealth creation.

Gervacques de Kock

Skills

  • Management
  • Training
  • System Architecture
  • Market Analysis
  • Systems Analysis
  • Business Analysis
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Business Intelligence
  • SAP BI
  • SAP EPM Strategy Management
  • SAP Dashboards
  • Geographic Information Systems

Qualifications

  • B.Com (Law)
  • B.Com-Hons (Economics)
  • Intelligence Analysis Expert Certification (Level III)

SAP Certifications:

  • Business Intelligence: Solution Consultant.
  • E2E Solution Operations: Route Cause Analysis Expert.
  • E2E Solution Operations: Change Control Management Expert.
  • E2E Solution Operations: Business Process Integration
  • Automation Optimization Expert.
  • BI Clients and Applications on SAP HANA.
  • BW powered by HANA.
  • Digital Transformation and its impact.
  • SAP Fiori Applications in the Cloud.
  • S-4HANA – Deep Dive.

Other:

  • ITIL – Foundations.

Designation

Office: Director.
Professional Role: Project Manager, Analyst, Business Intelligence Specialist, General Management Consultant.

Experience

25+ years’ experience combining Business Intelligence, Business Analysis, Market Analysis, Intelligence Analysis and Management, including extensive implementations, migrations, and support projects in SAP solutions, across the manufacturing, distribution, retail, ports, state insurance, and media and entertainment sectors.

Personal Observation

I advocate that risk is the essence of economic activity, and consequently any behaviour that attempts to escape downside risk altogether will lead to the least realistic behaviour of all: doing nothing.

Taking and managing risk is the essence of success for any enterprise.

While having a keen interest in information science, technology and methodology, I maintain that Intelligence is more than a mere complexity of algorithms; presupposing a living soul.