IBSS Cover

Continuously monitor and analyze the status of your data to make them accurate and reliable. Improve your operational, analytical, and data governance processes and outcomes by carrying data quality to the highest level.

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Meet IBSS COVER

Data’s importance for companies grows increasingly with each passing day. Managing, processing, and utilizing data, which plays an essential role at every stage from production and marketing to after-sales services, advertising, and customer experience, is now the most important requirement for companies of all scales. Regardless of their scale, all companies and business units today are adopting a mindset of “data is an opportunity for all of us” rather than “data is not my problem.” At this point, ensuring that the data at hand are consistent, coherent, accurate, and sound stands out as a critical requirement.

Businesses can have difficulties due to recurring, inconsistent, and incoherent records in their master data generated by various business units on their systems for products, customers, vendors, or other similar elements. This, in turn, leads to considerable costs and errors in decisions and planning, critically impacting the companies’ operational efficiency. Therefore, the problems in master data should be identified, monitored, and properly improved -and not just for once, but continuously.

COVER, the data quality analysis and improvement tool developed by IBSS, enables businesses of all scales to easily and quickly monitor and analyze their data in detail, identify problems, and improve the quality of their data by organizing them. With COVER, businesses can continuously monitor and understand the quality of the data that impact business processes and obtain comprehensive metrics and reports to monitor and evaluate their data from all aspects. Not only does COVER enable the analysis and classification of all kinds of data sets obtained from different source systems but it also helps identify and eliminate the data pollution resulting from missing, erroneous, inaccurate, or recurring entries, ensure data consistency, and continuously improve the data quality.

IBSS, an expert in business analytics and data, carries the data quality of companies of any scale to the highest level with its in-house developed product COVER and thus significantly contributes to improving the operational, analytical, and data governance efforts of businesses.

Benefits You Will Obtain

Better and sounder decisions

Improved business processes

Transparency between the data and data owners

Increased efficiency

Service packages

01

Data Insight

Obtain comprehensive insights into your data from many different aspects.

02

Data Profiling

Define rules
Identify erroneous results
Correct errors with the repeating method for continuous improvement

03

Uniqueness

Identify recurring and similar records and make corrections in your source systems.

Capabilities and Solution Methodology

COVER offers three modules, namely Data Insight, Data Profiling, and Uniqueness, either in an on-premise version to be run in your domain or in a software-as-a-service (SAAS) model to be run on the cloud, depending on your specific needs. Companies can use either one or all of the COVER modules under circumstances that best fit their needs. Moreover, the cloud version requires no installation or coding.

Data owners can interpret profiling results and define additional rules on COVER, designed for the use of business users.

Method of Use

Subscribe to any COVER module you need or install the product in your domain.

Upload your master data to COVER’s cloud version via any web browser.
Access Profiling results within seconds after uploading your data.
Define and upload rules. View Erroneous Records based on these rules.
Access recurring and erroneous records and correct them on your systems.

What we offer

Easily upload your data regardless of your platform choice and quickly evaluate data quality.
Ensure the monitoring of any data obtained from different SAP or non-SAP source systems, using the specific business rules you defined.
Obtain insights into data quality through comprehensive evaluations and reports on the consistency and reliability of your data.
Eliminate data pollution by quickly detecting errors such as recurring or similar records in your master data.
Find a solution that data owners can use without any initial investment costs or imposing any additional workload on your IT teams and systems on the SaaS version.
Start analyzing and improving your data immediately under the proper circumstances by implementing any one or all of the Data Insight, Data Profiling, and Uniqueness packages.
Empower your data specialists with a comprehensive tool that enables discovering, evaluating, defining, monitoring, and improving data quality from a single source.

FAQ

How do we start working together?

If you have data quality / data integrity issues and wish to unify your data and increase data quality, we can work together on IBSS COVER.

What are my responsibilities for a successful IBSS COVER Project implementation?

Spare time for the project and organize the related business to be a part of the project. Identify data owners if you have not done so already.

You will need to define data quality rules as well. COVER will assist you by providing insights into all aspects of your data, however, business owners are the ones to set the business logic.

The data insights you will obtain from COVER, combined with the expertise of data owners, will grant a successful project implementation.

How long does it take to deliver a COVER implementation?

Project duration depends on the project scope. Generally, we need various inputs to ensure we achieve the targeted project duration.

How many domains are involved? (material, vendor, customer, etc.)
How many Master Data and Attribute tables are included in these domains? (number of rows, number of columns)
How many systems must to be merged?
How many rules are expected?
Which service package/s do you wish to implement? “Data Insight,” “Data Profiling,” “Uniqueness,” or all three?

Do I need to be prepared before the project?

Yes, preparing for the project brings advantages. This way, the project starts sooner and runs smoothly. Meeting the conditions below before the project will enhance the project delivery performance:

The responsible Data Owners for each domain should be identified as teams.
Output data for each domain should be created with Master Data and Attribute tables.

How do you report progress on the project?

We follow an action list that helps us see the project’s progress.

High-level milestones for an entire project cycle are listed below:

Meeting with Business Data Owners
Data collection
Data Insights configuration and result delivery
Meeting with Business Data Owners to understand the data insight results and match the Data Profiling rules
Data Profiling configuration and result delivery
Meeting with Business Data Owners to understand the Data Profiling results
Uniqueness configuration and result delivery
Meeting with Business Data Owners to understand the Uniqueness results

What are the risks involved in IBSS COVER Implementations?

We take the project’s each step very seriously and learn lessons from previous implementations. The list below offers the keys to successful delivery in a short time:

The data must be organized in a specific format before the implementation starts.
When various data sources are involved, a single data format in needed to ensure quicker integration.
Business Data Owners should be involved in the project.

Is IBSS-COVER a challenging application to use?

IBSS COVER is designed and developed with a focus on user-friendliness. Based on our customers’ feedback, we will continue our development efforts to improve COVER to meet business needs and offer a better user experience.

Do I need to change my daily working practice?

No, you do not need to do anything special. When running IBSS COVER on you domain, it is easy to use and maintain. And for the cloud version, all maintenance requirements will be handled on the cloud.

Do I need to learn a lot of new things to be able to use IBSS COVER?

As a user, you do not need to learn much to be able to use IBSS COVER. It is like using a simple web tool.

As an advanced user, however, you need to know how to transfer data to IBSS COVER and understand how the IBSS COVER model works. Our experts will train you throughout the project, so you will be able to perform the required actions on the application.

What if I do not have a central IT team involved in the project?

You will not need a dedicated IT team to implement or use IBSS COVER. If the data is ready, a business team with DATA knowledge will be sufficient.

Do we receive any training as part of the project?

Yes.

Do we receive support after we go live?

Data Quality Monitoring and Improvement is a continuing project. You control the data quality to the extent that you wish and/or need. The initial benefit you will obtain from COVER will be very big. However, you will need to continue using COVER to maintain that data quality as your data continuously grows and is not static.

Do I need a full-time expert to maintain the system once we go-live?

You do not need to worry about maintenance. If you use the cloud-based version, then the system will be regularly and automatically updated. For on-premise installations in your domain, version upgrades will be provided at regular intervals.

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