Consulting

Our bottom line goal at ThotWave Consulting Services is to improve your company’s performance. We want to help you achieve your operational, strategic, and tactical goals of delivering products and services faster, cheaper, and better.

We see two types of companies that would gain tremendous competitive advantage by teaming with us to deliver performance management. On one hand, many organizations are struggling to stay afloat in a rising ocean of information. On the other hand, just as many organizations feel they don’t have enough of the right information.

If you fit one of these two profiles, ThotWave Consulting Services stands ready to assist you on your journey toward greater accountability in your business operations, and ultimately, realizing a greater return on your business intelligence investment. Our solutions focus on making you more effective by providing value through visibility, accountability, and predictability.

We focus our consulting services around a well-defined set of high-value business intelligence solutions. Whether you are a mid-sized company or a member of the Fortune 100, we have a broad range of business and technical expertise in meeting client needs. We recognize that prudent, up-front information gathering and understanding of your unique challenges are key to success. Each of our services includes an up-front, quick-but-intense assessment phase that provides you with a set of recommendations- a roadmap if you will-of how to proceed. Next steps are detailed planning, requirements gathering, design, and build. We follow a very open and transparent project management philosophy that keeps you and your staff fully informed of our performance. We avoid surprises by holding customer focus group review sessions at critical milestones in the development process-significantly reducing any risk of rework and missed deadlines.

Our industry focus:

• Healthcare
• Life Sciences
• Financial Services
• Energy & Utilities
• Insurance

Our service offerings include decision support solutions that enable businesses to capture important events, store them in robust and secure information architectures, and deliver actionable information to authorized users via the web.

Our offerings include:

• Performance Management Services - We will assess your requirements for implementing a performance management system that includes strategic, tactical, and operational performance monitoring capabilities and work with you to plan, design, implement, and mature your performance management system.
• Enterprise Risk Management Services - Our deep expertise in the implementation of risk management systems will accelerate the planning, design, and implementation of your risk system. We will assess your requirements from the credit, market, and operational risk perspectives and assist you with the full lifecycle development of the risk application.
• Anti Money Laundering/Fraud Detection Services - Our solutions around operational business activity monitoring can save your organization large sums of money that are at risk to fraudulent activity. Our consultants will utilize our thinking data^® Toolkit to capture and report fraudulent activity, as it happens.
• Audit and Architecture Assessment Services - We can help lay out a strategy, roadmap, and tactical plan for maturing your business intelligence architecture. Based on your specific requirements, the architecture assessment could include the following areas: Sourcing of data, transformation and cleansing, storage (data warehouse or operational data store), integration with an analytic engine, loading of results to a dimensional data mart, and deploying your reports and analytics to the web.
• SAS Integration Services - If you have an investment is SAS technology and want to make the most of it, we can assist you with a plan to migrate your SAS applications to a more state-of-the art, secure, risk-free production environment and provide mentorship to you as you transition your organization.

Engaging with ThotWave Consulting Services is Easy

Working with ThotWave is easy and straightforward. We use a 7-step, phased process to help your organization plan, prioritize, and deliver the specific services you need - from analyzing the business and technical requirements, through architecture and planning of the solution, to turning over the keys to the application.

We work with you to forge a vision of where you want to be in your market space. This information is critical in defining the business intelligence ecosystem that will support your vision and your desired future capabilities. Armed with your vision, we can put in place a performance management system that will drive effectiveness, strategic initiatives, and increase value for your company.

Our approach allows for maximum flexibility in managing your initiative. The periodic customer focus groups ensure that we are on the right track in regard to what you expect from the system. This combined with full visibility into the project is the best method of reducing cost and schedule risk. We find the best balance of agility and discipline based on your internal regulatory and operational requirements for managing projects.