Pyramid Analytics

Delaware has partnered with Pyramid Analytics to provide an unrivalled offering, combining the power of a top rated “Decision Intelligence” platform with Delaware’s knowhow and analytics insights.

We believe that to get actionable and trusted insight, information must be available to users in real-time. Pyramid allows for direct query access on the source data (record of truth) largely removing the need for batch loads and data duplication.

Businesses are gaining greater insight, reducing costs and becoming increasingly proactive through the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Pyramid allows operational data to be combined with data science tools (R and Python) and this allows for new ideas and processes to be developed and executed.

We have seen a large increase in machine learning embedded in analytics across different industry sectors, some examples include:

• Automated risk assessment for Insurance companies via imagery and customer market data
• Predictive maintenance for Oil & Gas through sensor (IoT) and work order management
• Basket analysis and buying behaviour in the Retail sector
• Price scraping and Sales information to assist with demand forecasts and market changes
• Inventory, order & production data to manage the just in-time process

Many organisations have not yet adopted or even heard of Decision Intelligence. Delaware aims to change this and help our customers achieve deeper insight and take intelligent action.

Addressing Real-world Challenges

Whilst working with our clients we frequently see the same challenges. Pyramid Analytics resolves many of these challenges and allows us to deliver in shorter timeframes:

• Reusability & Centralisation: Business users and consultants spend time not only creating visualisations but also updating them. Customers roll out their dashboards to a wide audience and many of the dashboard components are copied and reused. When a change is requested to, for example, a format or metric, time is spent going through each and every dashboard where the component is used. With Pyramid a central change is reflected everywhere a component is used.
• Publication & Distribution: Pixel perfect placement, printing, layout of tabular reports, commentaries and automated distribution are gripes we often hear. With Pyramid these points have been addressed and what’s more it can be configured quickly ensuring your management board packs or other critical publications are available.
• Performance & Reliability: Query performance is critical; load and navigation times are key factors to adoption of dashboards or visualisation solutions. Pyramid’s PYRANA engine addresses this concern by optimising query execution on any source. Pyramid has its own inbuilt in memory database for situations where sub-second response times are demanded by users.

• Custom Visualisations: Whilst Pyramid has visualisations that address most needs, there are times when requests arise for a highly specific output. This is catered for in Pyramid via the illustrate module. Custom infographics that interact with data and context can be created in a few clicks. For the more complex requirements there is the option to create your own custom visualisations and interactions through the use of D3 JavaScript.
• NLP Chatbot: Working with large datasets can be difficult. Knowing the dimensions and metrics to use leads to many clicks and this this can be unproductive. The NLP chatbot in Pyramid allows the user to have a conversation with the data. Ask the chatbot for example “Show me Sales and Revenue by Period for this Year” and results in a table are rendered with that information. Not happy with a table “Show me as a bar chart”,  job done!

Pyramid Analytics is highly performant, fast to implement and quicker to learn than other leading decision intelligence solutions. If you would like to find out more please do get in touch.