An Introduction
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A Background
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Started in 1994 in New Jersey, USA as a software consulting firm
Had presence in 4 continents and 6 countries
Started Indian operation in 1998
Working in the areas of OLAP,ETL, Enterprise Reporting, Business
Intelligence for the last 16 years
Have done consulting on most of the major BI tools
Launched “Kautilya” Business Intelligence Tool in 2008
First Indian company to develop a hybrid ER&BI Tool
Despite global meltdown have clients in BFSI, automotive, telecom and
manufacturing verticals
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Key Professionals
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Umesh Gupta-CEO: He has a diploma from the IIFT and has done his PG in Law
from the prestigious Delhi Law Faculty. He has extensive entrepreneurial experience
of over 18 years, having successfully managed corporate with global presence and
having successfully exited two ventures.
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Vikram Dayal Co-Founder: He has over 25 yrs. of software development,
consulting and project management experience. He has done his B.Tech from IIT
Kanpur. He specializes in technologies like UNIX, C++, Java and Dot net, Vikram
holds special interest in databases and optimization of the same for reporting
purposes. Vikram in past has worked for fortune 500 financial organizations.
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Manish Gupta- Co-Founder: Manish is the master of the “Java” paradigm. He
has done his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur in Mechanical Engg. Having in depth knowledge
of the inner workings of the Kautilya platform, Manish is the go to person for
understanding and solving all issues related to Kautilya. Manish has also got a strong
corporate background – having worked in top notch software firms . Manish has a
number of IPR in his name, and has over 14 years of experience in the field of
software development.
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Customers
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Enterprise Reporting – Challenges faced
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Getting data from different systems and consolidating the same is a
challenging and costly affair
Users have to wait for IT to generate the reports and hence decisions are
taken based on old data.
Providing information for remote users is a problem in non web based
systems
Providing secure and limited access to reports is both difficult and very
resource hungry making dispersion of information challenging
Reports out of ERP are not dynamic, user interactivity is poor and widely
used spreadsheets add to the confusion.
Compliance is an issue. Once the data in ERP changes it is not possible to
view the report with the same set of data.
Demand for more dynamic, user friendly and live reporting with Analytics to
get competitive edge is growing rapidly.
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Enterprise Reporting - benefits
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Instead of waiting for a monthly or a weekly report managers can have
access to information on demand.
Anywhere, anytime access to information, reports with rich graphs and
charts
One version of truth across the organization unlike spreadsheets
Each version of a report can be stored so that a user can log in and
view any version from the past at any time.
Dashboards enable managers monitor KPIs
Add value to the existing applications (ERP, CRM) as it will extract value
from the data they hold within their repositories.
Better visibility of the organization for both frontline managers and
top level management.
Flexibility to users in building reports without help of IT.
And many more……
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Kautilya Architecture
Web Based User and Design Interface
Dashboard
(Flash, Open
Source API)
Enterprise Reports
(Java, SVG)
Page/Group
Level
Security
Mobility (iOS,
Android)
BI on ER
In Memory Analytics
Business
(IE) & Data
Messenger
visualization for others and What If
Google like Search
Business Layer
Kautilya
User and Admin
Logging and Rights
Analytics/Enterprise
Reporting
BI/ BI on ER /Dashboard
Report Execution
Version
Retrieval (Derby by default)
Report view in
HTML/EXCEL/PDF
DOC
Web Server /Design Layer
Data Connection
Manager
Metadata
connections
ETL Classes(Java)
Scripting
Reports
Analytics
(MS Active X) Report layer ( HTML, Predictive (Weka)
WEB SERVICES SOA
ODBC
Transactional
Systems
Warehouses
Facebook
Flat, Legacy
or Modern
Kautilya Components - explained
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Enterprise Reporting: Ability to handle large complex, live and dynamic reports from
multiple systems
Business Intelligence or Ad Hoc Reporting: Empowering the end user to get information
as desired through simple interface
BI on ER: Allows end users to combine different reports or versions of reports by
themselves
In Memory Analytics: Fulfills the end user’s need to analyze data from different
dimensions
Business Messenger: Empowers users to chat and track discussions and decisions from
within the report
What If Analysis: Do scenario building in extremely user friendly way while keeping the
data secure
Dashboard: Get all this information along with tickers, traffic signals and speedometers in
a single user friendly view
Extreme Visualizer: This gives very different, unusual however intuitive visualization
capabilities for the end user
Facebook Data Integrator: Now get your Facebook data and see it along with your
company Data.
Predictive Analytics: Kautilya uses one of the most popular libraries to deliver highly
intuitive web based Predictive Analytics with complete regression and statistical modeling
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Kautilya Components
Natural Language Processor based Google like SEARCH
What If
Mobility
ER
Dashboard
Ad Hoc
Analytics
Ex Visual
BI On ER
Facebook
Predictive
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Kautilya Administration
Kautilya Engine
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Information Lifecycle Management
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Kautilya unique in complete lifecycle management
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User opens his Dashboard to view his KPIs
User drags a report in the Dashboard
Uses it as data model to make changes
Identifies outliners and filters on data
Takes out data on a dynamic In Memory Analytics Sheet
Understands the historical trends from various dimensions
Confirms past trends, takes data with formulae to What If Analysis tool
Plans for future
He does his Predictive Analytics to check the What if Planning
Discusses the same with other users on Business Messenger with auto save
function
Report saved with all details and data as time frozen version
End Result – better information flow and compliance
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Kautilya Salient Features
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Ability to pull data from multiple sources through JDBC – ODBC bridge
including databases, excel, text files, etc.
Easy install within a couple of hours
Caters to all kinds of reporting requirements from simple few minutes
reports to highly complex backend and formatting requirement reports
Complete lifecycle management of reporting requirements; from dashboard
to reports to analysis to what if analysis of same data and finally discussion
on the same which is all stored for posterity
Completely unified single repository solution
Download report to popular formats like Excel and PDF
Ability to retain older versions of reports without re running the reports even
after the data in system has changed
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Packaged Analytical Solutions - eCommerce
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eCommerce is by far the fastest growing mode of shopping
The size of data for eCommerce companies growing at a rapid pace
No standardized way to interpret data
Need to be able to analyze data
OST has built a solution for providing prebuilt KPIs, Reports and Analytics
covering most important functions in eCommerce
Pre built connectors for most popular data sources
Pre built data models
All the above ensure rapid deployment between 30 to 60 days
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Packaged Analytical Solutions - Manufacturing
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Manufacturing is the largest segment of industry in India
Growth is over 9% for last few years
Most mid market companies have stable mature transactional systems
BI largely out of reach due to high cost of licenses and still higher cost of
implementation
OST developed solution for Discrete Manufacturing to provide pre built
KPIs, Reports and Analytics
Built by experts in the manufacturing domain
Pre built connectors to most data sources
Pre built data models
All the above ensure rapid deployment between 30 to 60 days
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Case Studies
Client
A large automotive manufacturer
Pain points
The Group is a conglomerate of 17 companies and JVs. They have
multiple systems ranging from home grown systems to SAP.
Management doesn't have a consolidated view on performance and
financial health as group. Scattered data. each company within the group
maintaining different ERPs, databases, excel.
Scope
Consolidating production, sales and financial data from different levels like
plant, companies, and then at corporate level. Presenting reports with rich
graphs and charts and ability to drill down to leaf level data.
Solution
Extract data from three sources mainly, ERPs, Excel uploads, and webforms which were created specifically to capture data from various
collection points e.g. plants, companies, etc.
Result
Milestone
Management now gets automated reports and outputs in less than 10%
time and more accurate than before. Established one version of truth
across the organization by unified reporting
Management now get all information fast and with flexibility to look at data
differently
45 days implementation
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Case Studies
Client
Pain points
Scope
Solution
Result
A giant white goods manufacturer
Getting data together and providing insights on consolidated data for the Go To
Market Team. Consolidation of Actual and targets from Oracle Apps and Excel
for Sales and After Sales Service Departments. Provide actionable information
to MD for his monthly review meetings
Implement a reporting system which can connect to both Oracle Apps and
Excel while doing incremental reporting so that users can see up to-date
reports instantly. Provide a web based access for Dashboards, Reports, In
Memory Analytics to Corporate, Branches and Field Staff to understand the
inventory and product placements
Scheduling and E-mailing of reports made life easier for line managers to
receive weekly and monthly reports as now they would automatically get
generated. Figure out leakage of revenue by drilling down to leaf level data
hence pin pointing exact cause of loss of revenue and can do their analysis
using latest in-memory technology. Use reports from within Oracle Apps using
APIs and SSO. Provide Page level security to ensure optimum use of resources
while providing each user access to only as much data as needed
Saved time and efforts for both users and technical team for reporting
Milestone
Achieved all results despite presence of leading global BI tools
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Case Studies
Client
Pain points
A Large eCommerce Company
Getting in time information from multiple systems like client facing, internal
and warehousing. Get a consolidated view. Provide accurate information
which was missing so far. Not getting insights into their client behavior
Scope
Implement a reporting system which can connect to all three systems.
Provide a comprehensive view to all the departments making this the
Corporate BI solution. Provide insights into their customer behavior from
various dimensions. Provide cohort, probability and predictive
Solution
Result
Milestone
Complete Kautilya BI Suite is being used here. The client has given full
access to their system to fully understand their data structures and Kautilya
team sitting in OST office manages their complete BI platform.
Biggest achievement has been producing accurate reports from their
systems. Saved time and efforts for both users and technical team for
reporting. Reduce their inventory levels by large amounts. Get customer
insights to the levels that they are able to optimize their marketing spent for
target customers
Achieved all results and convert a one off assignment into an ongoing one
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Why Open Software Technology ?
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More than 16 years of experience in implementing business intelligence
solution.
Understand that BI is all about providing a business solution and not merely
a technical one.
OSTIL designed “Kautilya” based on their own research and experiences of
the bottlenecks faced during implementations.
Have clients in multiple verticals.
Is purely focused on Enterprise reporting and BI.
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OST Accolades
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Kautilya was showcased at NASSCOM’s Emerge Out in Chennai
Kautilya was a finalist in the Best IT Implementation Award in the
Enterprise segment
An article on Kautilya appeared in PC Quest
Named in Quadrant by Frost & Sullivan for BI products in India in
2013
Mentioned in Gartner’s Report for BI in Asia Pacific in 2014
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Global IT research firms say…
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BI is CIO's no 1. priority globally for two consecutive years now, even in the days
of meltdown.
Over 60% CEO thinks that they need to do a better job of capturing and underst
anding information to make more efficient and timely business decisions.
Many organizations did comparatively much better business during
slowdown and they were well equipped with Reporting, score carding, Dash
boarding, forecasting, what-if modeling, interactive visualization and
other analytical tools.
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Report Snapshots
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OST has designed various types of reports for various customers
These reports use different templates which makes building them a very
easy and smooth process
It adds many pre built flexibility to the end user
Some of the sample reports and analytics built are showcased
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Dashboard
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NLP Based Search
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NLP Based Search – Report
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NLP Based Search - Graphs
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NLP Based Search - Graphs
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NLP Based Search - KPIs
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Report Snapshots -1
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Report Snapshots -2
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Pixel Perfect Report
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In Memory Analytics
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Predictive/ Advance Analytics
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Facebook Retrieval
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Facebook Retrieval Interface
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