Data and Analytics

An automated solution to provide analytical insight into the risk and compliance key factors which minimise the disruption and maximise the value your audit adds to the business

Today, to run your business efficiently, you need an effective control over its operational mechanisms.

Understanding the real flow of your business processes is paramount when you want to improve process effectiveness or efficiency, ensure quality or compliance, standardise, or detect anomalies or fraud.

Do you know everything about your company's processes?

Be it for procurement, for sales or for insurance claim approvals, there is often a gap between how processes are intended to be and what they are in reality.

There are many reasons for this: the complexity of business and system landscapes:

• changes that have occurred over time, 
• exceptions to process blueprints for operational reasons, 
• users with too much freedom within the IT systems, 
• and finally, people who often only see some of the processes whilst missing the complete picture.

Identifying and understanding these gaps is imperative to boosting your operational effectiveness and efficiency.

Effective analytics starts with trusted data

You’re using your data to drive decisions, business strategy and digital innovation, so there’s no room for error.

To achieve great insights, you need a strong data foundation. You know what data you have, where it is available, that it is maintained and up-to-date and can be trusted by stakeholders both internally and externally.

Trusted data begins with solid data governance. It has to be well-organised, relevant, accurate, and understandable.

Data Strategy

Every business needs to be deliberate about its data and have a clear strategy in place to ensure it is managed well and leveraged for the benefit of the organisation and its customers. A good data strategy will be driven from the perspective of enabling and accelerating the overall business strategy. It will also be aligned to the technology investments the business is making and span the breadth of regulatory requirements, business growth and operational efficiency.

At PwC, we see data as being the lifeblood of the business and key to success. We support our clients in setting out their data strategy in a number of ways, from co-creating the strategy to periodic reviews of progress in implementation. We believe in applying our practical experience of delivering transformational programmes for data and analytics, in developing the data strategy and holistically working with the C-suite in setting out the what, the how and the when of strategic change.

Data Governance

The data in your organisation presents exciting opportunities to better understand your business, its external environment and your customers. However, it also carries risk relating to keeping this information protected, of high quality and compliant with regulations.

Getting this right is both an operational and cultural challenge, and requires an understanding of your data and how it flows through the business. We help clients with every aspect of data governance; data discovery, setting vision and strategy, designing operating models and implementing changes to people, processes and technology.

Data Quality

The currency of today’s economy is data.  Information about customers, products, sales, business partners, competitors and suppliers drives the business decisions toward performance and profitability. In a global marketplace where systems, people and processes are interconnected, quality data is an organisation’s most valued asset.

The way in which an organisation addresses Data Quality can have an impact on an organisation’s financial position, legal and regulatory compliance, service delivery standards and customer satisfaction.  Using our business knowledge, experience across industry sectors and our data analytics expertise, we support our clients to design, implement and sustain their Data Quality across their organisation to ensure its most valued asset is fit for purpose.

Data Architecture

Building data lakes. Creating data warehouses. And plugging it all into an organisation to actually do something useful… Businesses today are looking for next-generation architectures to deal with diverse data assets, speed up data processing and analytics, and drive innovation and lower costs.

We’ll help you consider and set up the best ways to store your data, share it across the enterprise and with multiple systems, and help your people and systems consume and process it.

 Prepare your staff to work alongside automated solution by upskilling your staff in advanced analytic tools such as PowerBI, Alteryx, and more

Data Storytelling with Visualisation Tool

Reporting and dashboards have always been a crucial monitoring mechanism across all industries. Visualisation tool allows users to build interactive charts, turning data into a visually compelling story. Users will be able to monitor the dashboards with real-time data across multiple sources, giving businesses a better handle of customers, operations and the future. The right data visualisation can be the difference between having data that disappears, and using that data to make critical (and more importantly, correct) decisions.

Do you wonder how to:

• relieve your team from the routine, repetitive tasks?
• simplify the process, reduce the time to perform these tasks, and at the same time extend the work to 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
• eliminate errors, achieve better quality and shift resources to perform more valuable tasks?

Our answer is...

Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

RPA is productivity software capability that sits on top of existing systems and performs manual, repetitive, and rule-based activities traditionally performed by individuals. Robotics bring you undeniable benefits.