Data & Analytics Centre of Excellence

With data being considered as the new ‘oil’, organisations rely heavily on building capabilities to generate, process and manage data by integrating disparate systems and applications. This requires implementing Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) solutions using the best-in-class technologies in line with the organisations vision and growth strategy. Our strong Data & Analytics practice, with rich industry experience, has helped numerous organisations build a new age data strategy to implement robust EDW solutions. These help generate insights needed for supporting decisions, timely regulatory reporting, establish single version of truth and develop industry specific data marts that help businesses find opportunities to optimise costs and grow.

Analytics on ERP provides actual intelligent data that can be used to drive business decisions and strategy, not just numbers. An ERP acts as a gigantic repository of learned information and operational data. Analytical solutions on ERP not only collect and present data in real-time, but can also combine information with pre-existing analytics to provide a more accurate picture of a company’s efficiency, productivity, maintenance requirements, and even financial health. By applying past data to real-time analytics, it can create forward-looking models to help decision makers identify new opportunities to meet deadlines, improve efficiency, and surpass business goals.

We help businesses get a single source of truth, combining disparate systems and incorporating both structured and unstructured data into the data lake. Clients are empowered with high performance, state-of-the art architecture that enables them to incorporate advanced analytics use cases and cross functional system aggregation in a scalable and cost effective manner.

Organisations often pursue data governance as a compliance and regulatory need. Over the years, with the explosion of data being generated from internal and external systems and processes, ‘data governance’ as a function has evolved. It has now become imperative for organisations to invest in data governance, in order to drive their ‘control’ and ‘growth’ agendas. Our expertise revolves around building processes for ‘data quality’ measurement and monitoring, defining the need for metadata management and business glossary for achieving a single version of truth, data security, privacy and policies for data lifecycle management. We help define the organisation’s governance operating model with governing processes, and enable relevant and applicable data governance tools stack.

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) places information at the heart of decision-making to help organisations achieve their goals. It is based on the belief that information is what drives a business. EPM initiatives typically originate from wider finance transformation initiatives as an organisation reviews its finance function’s performance across the three dimensions - insight, control and efficiency - of the PwC Finance Framework. It starts by performing a diagnostic review to identify the opportunities for improvement that may be related to the entire operating model used to generate business insights or one of the four strategic themes: target setting, integrated business planning, performance reporting and analytics.

AI-enabled Advanced Analytics is used for providing predictive and prescriptive analytics. Apart from statistical techniques, there is a significant use of machine learning and deep learning models for improving the accuracy of the prediction. Multiple use cases spanning across different sectors and functions for the client is enabled using AI based analytical models. Methodology for developing responsible and explainable AI based solutions are also deployed for clients.

‘PwC Insight As a Service‘ platform (PIAS 2.0) is a comprehensive and ready to deploy solution that allows organisations to get actionable insights and business outcomes at speed with a flexible commercial model. This technology agnostic analytics platform helps solve all analytics, reporting and visualisation needs across our products suite. It supports self-service reporting and role-based access control needs for products and provides state-of-the-art diagnosis and visualisation of business data. The platform is integrated with our Enterprise Data Hub (EDH) and increases speed of insights through packaged reports and dashboards and prebuilt KPIs for different business functions and industries. It supports cross-functional and cross-application KPIs with predictions, alerts and prescribed actions and can be customised to cater to specific business needs.

Today businesses that effectively discover opportunities from massive amounts of captured data will end up differentiating themselves from competition. Our analytics CoE strategy and implementation framework adopts the BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer) approach to help organisations assess their analytics maturity level, develop processes for the analytics CoE, and establish a framework for agile analytics methodology.