FAST Mapping - Pre Developed Connectors

Preamble questions:

How many different interfaces must an employee check?

How much time would you estimate, is spent logging into, and searching at each of these sites?

How costly is it to maintain these legacy systems? Would it be beneficial to decommission these legacy systems providing that you still had a means to access the data?

How costly is it to create the middle-ware communication and linkage between systems?

When acquiring new companies how do you plan to merge business data?

How long do you think that effort will take and how long can you wait?

Unlike, Rather Than:

Rather than having to traverse several silos in several locations FAST can consolidate all those disparate data silos to one single location.

Business Objective, Business Challenges:

No costly MIGRATION.

No costly DEVELOPMENT.

Phase out legacy systems.

Consolidate the information to a SINGLE LOCATION.

How much time spent searching? More time on high Value tasks.

Would it benefit you if you could?

Have no need for costly consultants.

Reduce cost of data management.

Reduce specialised skills & required maintenance costs.

Offload data collation teams.

Less time gathering & collating.

I can give you an example:

We recently worked on a project at RBS to provide a Single View of a Customer based on intelligence from different sources. This was to enable business developers to ‘warm up’ a cold call, qualify winnable business and understand the language and dynamics of the industry.

Previously when gathering information on a customer employees would have to consult a number of different data sources including a CMS system, Customer Records data base, Several other internal repositories, External sites, external blogs, Google, OneSource, Lexis Nexis and Factiva.

This was excessively time consuming.

Users resisted the extra effort to check each of these repositories as they were typically under time constraint.

This meant they were making decisions based on incomplete knowledge and a partial view of the picture.

After we implemented the integrated portal, employees could effortlessly pull together data from the multiple sources in real-time and exposed it in consumable manner employees.

Employees were subsequently more knowledgeable and aware of opportunities in the market and were better positioned to ‘warm up’ a cold call with relevant and up to date intelligence.