Competences

Internet of Things (IoT)

Description

Internet of Things (IoT) can be simplistically described as the infrastructure of the information society. IoT represents linking of intelligent (smart) devices, appliances, vehicles and buildings to the Internet. The interconnection is most commonly performed wirelessly and provides new possibilities for interaction between the individual systems and new possibilities for their control and monitoring. This enables providing a myriad of modern advanced services for cities and citizens (Smart City) or enterprises (Smart Factory).

Areas of service(s)

• Smart City
• Design and implementation of intelligent public lighting
• Design and implementation of smart parking
• Design and implementation of a traffic control system
• Design and implementation of prevention and safety systems
• Design and implementation of a communal waste disposal system
• Smart Factory
• Design and implementation of a system for on-line monitoring of production lines
• Design and implementation of a system for data collection and analysis from production facilities
• Design and implementation of a system for preventive maintenance of machinery and equipment
• Design and implementation of an environment monitoring system
• Design and implementation of a logistics system (logistics flow, traceability)
• Design and implementation of an energy consumption monitoring system

How BBI does

BBI has a team of experienced people who have extensive know-how in technologies used in IoT as well as in areas where IoT is being used.  We can design a solution which will meet all the specific needs of the most discerning customers.

Benefits BBI delivers

Use of our experts in the field of IoT brings benefits to the real planning of all necessary resources and processes necessary for the effective implementation of IoT. The benefit of using IoT is a better use of resources, cost savings, cleaner and safer cities, less traffic congestions, the availability of accurate data and analysis for effective planning, material flow optimization and increased productivity.

Data Governance

Description

The primary goal of Data Governance in organizations is to assure, that data satisfy the needs of business, and to serve as a reliable input for decision making.

Areas of service(s)

• Data Management
• Business Process Management
• Data Compliance Management
• Total Responsibility Management

How BBI does

Data Governance competence of BBI strives to make data of our clients as valuable as possible.

Benefits BBI delivers

A major advantage of BBI services in Data Governance competence is the combination of data understanding from a business perspective as well as from a technical point of view. We approach the data of our customers’ as highly valuable information asset.

IT Governance

Description

IT Governance focuses on direction and control of IT within the organization. The goal is to maximize benefits of existing IT infrustructure and continuous investments for achieving overall  business strategy.

Areas of service(s)

• Definition of policies, principles, processes
• Alignment of IT strategy to company's business strategy
• Change management policy and methodology
• Project management methodology
• IT Service Management - methodology, processes, KPIs, reporting
• IT Security

How BBI does

Experienced consultants, based on previous experiences from similar projects and individual assignments, identify areas for potential improvements like processes, operational practice, technology implementation, strategy development, etc., and develop recommendations how to achieve improvements. 

Benefits BBI delivers

• Experience gained from projects delivered in similar institutions or practice in different industrial sectors
• Knowledge of different models and frameworks (like TQM, Six Sigma, lean approach, etc.)
• Track in detailed data analysis as input for strategic decisions

Data Warehousing

Description

Data Warehousing serves as a vital component to the modern enterprise architecture. The main purpose of today’s Data Warehousing is to collect, integrate, consolidate, and transform raw data into valuable information, which assists business departments of the enterprise in fulfilling their goals and providing higher quality services to their customers.

Areas of service(s)

• Data profiling
• Data modeling
• ETL
• Data migration
• IF and Data Marts development
• Reports Development
• Quality Assurance
• Incremental Enhancement
• Project Management

How BBI does

BBI Data Warehousing competence assists clients through all phases of a Data Warehousing project.

Benefits BBI delivers

We bring new technologies, new trends, and our expertise. Combining these three we make sure our customers become the leaders of their markes

Business Intelligence Testing

Description

Testing in Business Intelligence area is an area of specific expertise which requires a broad set of knowledge and test expert skills.

Areas of service(s)

• Test concept and strategy definition
• Gap analysis and gathering of business specification
• Execution of test phases: System test, System integration test, User acceptance test
• Data mappings, ETL and DWH specific testing using correctness and completeness approach
• Test data requirements definition and collection
• Functional and Non-functional testing, Regression testing
• Test management including defect & environment management
• Test automation using customized tools
• Performance testing

How BBI does

Our consultants provide end-to-end testing coverage in Business Intelligence field from source system through Data Warehousing to end user reports.

Benefits BBI delivers

Our BBI methodology enables us to provide a full range of testing services within data integration projects including specific data domains knowledge in the fields of banking, telecommunications and automotive.

Environmental Social Governance

Description:

The primary goal of the ESG competence is to support companies – regardless of industry, sector and size – in their effort to adopt a more sustainable business model.

Areas of service(s)

• ESG generic and specific (department level) training
• ESG data modeling and data governance
• ESG reporting – internal, external, mandatory (including support to access Green Funds)
• Supply chain monitoring and reporting
• ESG upgrade of existing applications

How BBI does

Support clients along their path towards a sustainable model in all their needs – Data and IT, Methodology and Process.

Benefits BBI delivers

Integrating/upgrading existing business and regulatory ecosystem only for what is relevant from ESG perspective. Support a growth “from within” involving client’s resources in each step of the process.

IT Security

Description

IT Security offers a set of cybersecurity strategies that prevents unauthorized access to organizational assets such as computers, networks, and data. It maintains the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive information, blocking the access of sophisticated hackers. IT Security implements IT Security an incident response plan as a risk management tool to gain control of the situation.

Areas of service(s)

• Network Security
• Internet Security
• Endpoint Security
• Cloud Security
• Application Security
• Physical IT Security

How BBI does

BBI has an experienced team in a field of IT Security, which have been working with the most current technologies, security concepts, developments, and security techniques for many years. With knowledge of many reliable security practices our people can satisfy security requirements of our clients from variety industries.

Benefits BBI delivers

BBI's IT Security prevents malicious threats and potential security breaches that can have a huge impact on your organization. When you enter your internal company network, IT Security helps ensure only authorized users can access and make changes to sensitive information that resides there. Our IT security methods work to ensure the confidentiality of your organization’s data and physical hardware security. BBI with certified and patented products for physical IT Security – SmartKeeper – protects IT infrastructure like workstations, servers and network devices against unauthorized access to equipment and resources. Read more on www.SmartKeeper.sk.

Applications Development

Description:

For every case, when there is no standard “in-the-box” solution, custom development comes in place to supply business needs, which provide competitive advantage over other market players. Modern applications running on variety of devices are key success factor.

Applications we develop are created in modern programming languages and platforms such as: .NET, java, PHP, C#, C++, etc.

Areas of service(s)

• Mobile applications
• Web applications
• Client-server applications
• Standalone client applications

How BBI does:

We have company spirit for doing things much better. We are able to analyze customer needs and design custom applications, which fulfill all specific needs. We have IT developers skilled through various technologies and programming languages.

Benefits BBI delivers

Our developers are not only pure programmers, they are complex professionals with deep understanding of business requirements, skilled modelers and excellent programmers.

Enterprise Architecture

Description

Design, optimisation and management of Enterprise Architecture to support contious business needs and at the same time reflecting integration and standardization requirements to deliver goods and services for the customer.

Areas of service(s)

• Design business service management model consisting of process, information and application models
• Alignment of IT service model to business service model
• Documentation and optimization of business processes
• Design / optimisation of n-layers model of application architecture
• Service oriented architecture, IT service model a management methodology

How BBI does

The strategic business model is designed by assessment of values disciplines. Once proper business model is defined then appropriate process, information and application models are developed respecting best industrial frameworks and practices.

Benefits BBI delivers

Clearly defined business architecture consisting of:

• Optimal business process, roles and responsibilities
• Well described company-wide information sources (meta data model)
• Properly designed and managed enterprise application architecture is a basis for building of competitive advantage through increased operational efficiency.

Reporting and Analysis

Description

Reporting is very important part of good working company. To effective control people, processes and technologies managers need a lot of KPIs, charts. This need has to be fulfilled everywhere in the world, where they actually are. Dashboards are collecting information from various input sources and showing them in proper way.

Areas of service(s)

• Analysis
• Data Mining
• Dashboards development
• Reporting
• Mobile reporting

How BBI does

We are using modern reporting tools, with them we are able to analyze any problem and visualize it in graphical form, e.g. dashboards.

Benefits BBI delivers

• Top of the line business and technological know-how.
• Technology independent – we help our clients choose the technology which is right for them

Customer Relationship Management

Description

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a way to identify, acquire, and retain customers. It is a business process of understanding, collecting and managing all of the information in a business environment relating to a customer. The goal of CRM is to effectively communicate with customers and improve customer relationship over time.

Areas of service(s)

• CRM systems analyze and design
• Support to consolidate current CRM solutions
• CRM data reconciliation
• Consulting services within CRM area

How BBI does

By integration of the new operational CRM system for corporate clients, we provide Business Intelligence expertise and practice. The goals of the project are to design and develop the Oracle Data Staging Area, and to create data connection with the CRM application on the Siebel platform. We also have projects on consolidation of customized CRM systems in order to improve the performance of processes in the current CRM.

Benefits BBI delivers

Based on our long-term experience with CRM systems in Telecommunications and Banking, our customers can improve and build their new and efficient CRM systems.

Digital Factory

Description

The use of advanced program solutions of the Digital factory for the design of production systems, from initial concept through detailed planning of processes and equipment to the simulation of robots and production systems with regard to ergonomics and the most efficient use of financial resources.

Areas of service(s)

• Designing of Production lines
• Designing of processes
• Analysis of cycle times
• 3D design of Production Layout
• Planning of Production processes
• Optimisation of space, resources and labour
• Costing
• Robotic simulation
• Simulation of human activities, ergonomics
• Logistics simulations and capacity calculations
• Checking the availability of welding points
• Off-line programming of robots

How BBI does

We use for the balancing of the system, logistics, processes, 3D layouts, simulations and other components of the production system software solutions from Siemens Process Designer, Process Simulate, Plant Simulation, Robcad, Process Simulate Human.

Benefits BBI delivers

Use of Digital factory and our experts in the given field as a tool for the design of production systems and their processes brings benefits of the real planning of all required resources and processes necessary to production. Advantages of Digital factory are better use of resources, cost savings, simplification of material flow, start-up time reduction, productivity  increase.

Industrial Engineering

Description

Industrial engineering methods enable significantly and continually to improve processes in the  enterprise, to maintain production systems efficiency, to ensure their reliability and also costs control. The area of industry engineering is to integrate people,  information, technological equipment, processes, materials, energy and their progress.

Areas of service(s)

• Logistics and supply chain management
• Internal logistics
• Production technical support and maintenance
• Inventory optimization and material flow
• Implementation of enterprise information systems
• Optimization of  enterprise information systems
• Quality management
• Quality control
• Quality planning
• Production planning
• Production management
• Optimization of  production and non-production processes

How BBI does

We use the latest and the most advanced knowledge in the area of industrial engineering methods such as Most, MTM, Kaizen, TOC, Value stream, Line balancing, SMED, TPM, TQM, 5S, JIT, Kanban, LEAN, Layout optimization, Simulation, Planning, Six Sigma, FMEA, Digital factory, UltraLOG Database Manager, UltraLOG server and many more....

Benefits BBI delivers

Long-term experiences of our experts in the given area ensure quick understanding of problems and effective solutions proposed using industrial engineering methods. Industrial engineering methods are applied in most of industries. Proposal of several alternative solutions.

Building Design

Description

By creating detailed concepts of space and objects in 2D and 3D views can be acquired a more accurate picture about the given project. On this basis, it is possible to adjust flexible the parameters of this project according to demands and to achieve real building in accordance with the concrete idea.

Areas of service(s)

• 3D design of production halls and buildings
• 2D  drawing documentation
• Proposal and design of  TZB  equipment and distribution
• Proposal and design of conveying technology and cranes

How BBI does

Our consultants  are using for  3D designing of production halls and buildings  the Microstation program with extension   Architecture, as well as with extension Venturis TGA and VDA. Through this program and its extensions we are able to provide customers with full information on individual structural elements, models parameterization and a large database of structural elements.

Benefits BBI delivers

Optimization and efficiency when buildings planning. The application of the latest software and creating of the complex system consisting of various construction areas. Graphical link data and data from database bring a simple configuration of standardized components of individual building parts. The possibility of using our staff directly on the ground on measurement or 3D scanning of buildings provides flexibility during total project realisation.

Simulation

Description

Simulations are a modern way to effective use virtual environment for detailed planning of processes and operations of production facilities, human resources, logistics and other resources and so to minimize all unwanted aspects and as much as possible to approach to the actual state of the production system.

Areas of service(s)

• Simulation of processes
• Robotic simulation
• Simulation of human activities, ergonomics
• Logistic simulation and capacity calculations
• Checking the availability of welding points
• Off-line robots programming
• On-line robots programming

How BBI does

Simulations require precision, speed and flexibility with the possible most precise approach to reality and this enable us our experts, who use modern software solutions such as Process Simulate, Robcad, Plant Simulation.

Benefits BBI delivers

Using programs that directly reflect the real state of the future, we can reduce costs of installing the production system and also to reduce the time required to implement changes in this system. An indisputable advantage is the direct interconnection of programs created during simulations with real devices. These programs reflect the most current condition in the production.  Fine-tuning on site is carried out by our experts through online programming directly at the customer.

Engineering Design

Description

Construction of preparations and devices intended for production systems. Proposal of the functionality concept and design, functional engineering design and processing of production documentation. The quality achievement and smooth operation requires thorough designing, construction and innovation of preparations and devices design.

Areas of service(s)

• Construction of preparations and devices
• Design of preparations and devices
• Production and operating documentation
• Creating of  layouts
• Strength calculations

How BBI does

When planning the design and construction of each device, we use a large portfolio of computer software CATIA V5, NX, Microstation, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor and this enables us to meet the needs also of our most demanding customers.

Benefits BBI delivers

Using modern components in the construction of devices and their parameterization enables to create devices with great flexibility of design and functionality modification. Taking into account technical solution of the structure enables to reduce the production costs for production of the given devices.

Design of Production Line

Description

Proposal of production systems is a very complex area. In their design, in intention of optimal solution, it is necessary to think of all the resources and limitations that must be taken into account in all areas of the proposal such as facilities, human resources, processes, production layout and more.

Areas of service(s)

• Designing of production lines
• Digital factory
• Concept design and test
• Detailed planning
• Analysis of cycle time
• Processes  proposal and test Optimization of space, resources, costs and workforce
• Creation of layouts
• Installation of production facilities

How BBI does

Our experienced professionals put to each of the proposals of production systems their long experiences  from many international projects in various sectors and exactly this interdisciplinary thinking contributes to high-class projects development. We use for our work modern software solutions such as Process Designer, Microstation, CATIA V5, NX, AutoCAD or Autodesk Inventor.

Benefits BBI delivers

Using the latest methods of production system design, our company brings saving of finances invested not only in the actual proposal of the production system, but also to its operation or type cast. Benefits include flexible and fast adaption of the production system in the definition of new processes in it.