In today’s information-intensive economy where continual knowledge renewal is the basis of competitive advantage, organizations today are faced with the dual challenge of managing intra-organizational information and monitoring a vast reservoir of information from the external environment, Thus it is strategically important for organizations - local, regional, or multi-national - to manage its internal information so as to increase its capacity to learn.
In the past, BI tools like decision support systems were only available to senior executives. With the advent of Internet, business intelligence has been made accessible to employees at operational levels. Coupled with the access to fee-based subscription databases (e.g., industry indicators, statistics and technological developments news), the acquisition process of external information has been markedly increased over the years.
Expectedly, the use of BI technologies would enhance the information-intensive absorptive capacity processes significantly. We thus posit that the greater the use of BI technologies in the organization, the higher the degree of organizational absorptive capacity will be.
Alef Arabia has an immediate answer; “Alef BI” that can provide the intelligence community with a unified, unconstrained system infrastructure able to process media rich intelligence data in real time.
What gives Alef Arabia the distinct ability to introduce this competency rises from its wide expertise in business analysis, information architecture, system integration, data warehousing, data modeling and the power of Mitopia, the intelligence platform.
“Alef BI” is a holistic service designed to support the business intelligence cycle, from data collection, mining, fusion, storage and retrieval, to analysis, visualization, and dissemination. It also spans to the activities of analyzing client’s requirements, enhancing the process, optimizing the infrastructure, building client’s working team, developing the information map then building the business intelligence effective tools. It was specifically designed for rapidly changing, real-time, massive, distributed, multimedia, multilingual, unstructured, information environments.
Systems that operate on the Data level may be characterized as those that contain or acquire large amounts of measurements or data points concerning the target domain but have not yet organized this data into a human-useable form. Data entry electronic forms, Excel sheets and manual forms are classified to be in this layer.
Information-level systems can be characterized as having taken the raw data and placed it into tables or structures that can then be searched, accessed and displayed by the system users. Email, HR, Finance and Document Management Systems are all systems that can be classified in this layer.
A system, such as Mitopia, that operates at the Knowledge level has organized the information into richly interrelated forms that are tied directly to a mental model or ontology that expresses the kinds of things that are being discussed in the information, and the kinds of interactions that are occurring between them. Ontology is a formalization of the “mental model” for the types of items that exist in the target domain, and the types of interactions that can occur between them. Few systems today operate at this level, but those that do allow their users to find ‘meaning’ in the information they contain, and see information and relationships directly in terms of a mental model that relates to real word items of interest.
Finally, we have the level of Wisdom. In this domain it is all about patterns within the knowledge. A system operating at the Wisdom level allows its users to view new knowledge in terms of their entire repository of past knowledge, to see patterns in that knowledge, and to predict the intent of known or inferred entities of interest that those patterns imply. Unfortunately, there are no information systems in existence that operate at the Wisdom level in any large or generalized domain. As a result, wisdom remains the exclusive purview of the people that use our current information systems.
The basic goal of “Alef BI” is to create a knowledge-level business intelligence capability of ‘learning’ from information feeds and users by converting all input into an ontological form and then using that knowledge to improve the system’s ability to interpret new information as it arrives, and tie it all into a unified inter-linked whole that can better meet the needs of sophisticated analysis techniques.
The union of Alef Arabia’s services plays a preliminary role to assure successful transition of BI competency to our strategic client’s organization; understanding client’s business, analyzing client’s requirements, optimizing infrastructure environment and building the required information map are potential enhancements that will take place thought out the engagement.
Our strength in systems integration and data modeling give powerful hands to connect Mitopia to internal and external data sources. Finally, our business intelligence consultants build the desired services, reports and tools that enhance organizational learning and absorptive capacity.
The better we know where knowledge came from, the better we can understand, teach and explain it. This could simply describe how we work.
Alef BI® is based on the “OODA” concept where the advantage goes to the entity which can adapt to changes in the environment faster than its opponent(s).
Alef BI® is designed for rapid adaptability at all levels.
Alef Arabia is a group of integrated competencies and alliances that offer comprehensive ICT services to public sector and organizations in areas of Information Technology, IT Consultation, Telecommunications, networking, Creative Services and Public Relations. At Alef Arabia, we focus on building long-lasting strategic partnership with our clients; we drive our strategic clients all the way to ultimately achieve their mission and employ excellence in delivering effective and efficient services to their clients...this is what we call the “e-JourneyTM”.
“e-JourneyTM” is a concept that we’ve put together that utilizes our experience, our knowledge and available technologies to make our strategic clients realize and develop their capabilities, reach higher maturity level so they can accomplish their mission.
Alef Arabia is proud to offer various competencies and skills; each is unique with its rich experience, strength, added value, services and quality of work. Therefore, with our diversity; Alef Arabia is able to satisfy all organizational needs in one place.
