Our technology expertise combined with significant business insight and experience enables our consultants to realise the maximum potential of the technologies we utilise in order to meet our customer business objectives.

Ensuring our staff are up to date with and qualified in the latest technologies and business processes is key within our business. We are commited to the professional development of our team and make a significant investment in training.

We are committed to participating in Beta programmes and technical previews of the software that we implement, ensuring that we understand the latest technologies and the business benefits they deliver.  We are active members of Partner Advisory Boards contributing towards product development and ensuring that we are able to influence the designs of these products.  We are the only UK partner on the IBM Cognos Advisory Board.

 

Simpson Associates has well established relationships with software vendors including Microsoft, IBM and IBM Cognos.

Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing Solutions

Business Intelligence solutions comprise technologies and practices that simplify information discovery and analysis, making it possible for decision makers at all levels of an organisation to more easily access, understand, analyse, collaborate and act on information, anytime and anywhere. Key components of a Business Intelligence solution may include: a Data Warehouse, On Line Analytical Processing and a graphical querying tool. Read More

Budgeting, Forecasting and Planning Solutions

Planning solutions embody your business goals - and how to achieve them - employing a hierarchy of plans, measures, and reports that flow from broad strategic objectives to tactical plans across departments, divisions, and locations. It relies on the input and commitment of hundreds or thousands of people who must execute against changing performance goals.  Read More

Portal, Collaboration and Workflow Solutions

Portal, collaboration and workflow solutions comprise technologies and practices that are designed to assist persons involved in common tasks to work together in a coordinated fashion to achieve their objectives.  Through the use of these tools organisations are able to break down global boundaries. Users have a single point of access to information, communication channels, business process controls and have the ability to search for information spread across the organisation. Read More

Financial Consolidation Solutions

Because plans, budgets, forecasts, and actuals often reside in separate systems, extracting and aggregating data can be time-consuming and error-prone. Joint Ventures and complex Inter-Company Eliminations increase the possibility for error. Read More

Bespoke Application Development

In some cases an 'off the shelf' application does not exist. Simpson Associates can develop bespoke applications to meet your business requirements.