Leverage your data 

Business decisions need to be made based on reliable information. The basis for this is data, great amounts of which are generated and processed today in business operations.  Using descriptive data analysis procedures, like BI analyses, dashboarding and process mining, we make data analyses in the finance function experiential and lay the groundwork for using machine learning and artificial intelligence in business applications.

Data are the raw material of the future. We’ll assist you in utilising your data as well as possible. Many times the first hurdle to utilising data is the complex, already existing ERP systems. Many organisations work with various different data structures or don’t have the experience and specialist capability to use contemporary analysis procedures.

Yet data are the basis for utilising exponentially developing technology platforms and for artificial intelligence approaches. That’s why now is the best time to structure your data landscape and start using innovative analysis procedures.

Your customers and potential new staff are also expecting your company to come up with data-based solutions.

Our core services here include:
  • Providing analyses based on process mining, using a broad portfolio of software, including Celonis®, as a project-based service
  • Implementation of Celonis® execution management software, i.e. connecting the mining platform process to ERP and CRM systems, including set up and assistance with analysis dashboard for individual customers and training for our clients’ staff
  • Providing BI dashboards and other descriptive data analyses
  • Design and implementation of machine learning and AI-based solutions, especially as components of internal transformation projects, including assisting internal and external stakeholders with the transformation as necessary
  • Individual data analyses for specific business purposes, including scenario-based prognosis models, particular analyses to address business needs related to managerial accounting, internal audit, special projects and similar applications
  • Data engineering, i.e. preparing data as necessary for the above analyses, especially in particularly challenging cases with various ERP system landscapes and legacy systems
  • Design and set up of harmonised data landscapes (common data models) in a cloud environment, esp. Microsoft Azure
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Examples of how you can launch your data project or take it to the next level:

Would your organisation like a quick and practical start to applied data science and make more out of your data? Then our Data Lab is a good starting point. The Grant Thornton Data Lab is a workshop-based interactive format in which we find out where you stand together and discuss your strategic goals and what steps would be recommended in your particular context.

We provide suggestions and examples to give you an impression of what is possible based on typical data in the finance function.

Our Data Lab can take place either at your offices or ours and depending on complexity takes one to three days. The results can then form the basis for decisions about the next steps.

The answer to many business questions is predicated not only on analysing the features of individual datapoints from your ERP system but also the individual relationships between the datapoints. For example, you may want to know how many ways a standard process can be undertaken in your organisation, how long each of these ways takes on average and the value streams that are processed by the most frequent, infrequent or quickest ways.

Process mining helps you answer these questions. Process mining is a data analysis methodology that focuses on the relationships between the datapoints of the process under analysis. This innovative form of data analysis will make completely new knowledge about the compliance, efficiency and resilience of your processes available to you.

If your organisation doesn’t have any experience with using process mining yet and you would like to find out what it has to offer, our process mining as a service is exactly right for you. You don’t need to buy any software licences or have any experts available; you just use the results of the process mining we provide you with as a service.

Are you looking to establish the use of process mining in your organisation, carry out analyses in real time and get all the use you can from technology? Or are you already implementing Celonis, but have the feeling you’re not getting the full use of it?

Our team of certified Celonis experts and process consultants is at your side to accompany you on the journey. Whether implementing it for the first time, adapting use cases, connecting to other processes or recovering an earlier unsatisfactory implementation that didn’t generate enough utility, we’ll help your project to success, so that the finance function can reposition itself within its role at your organisation.

Trust in our expertise and the references of our satisfied customers who have given talks with us at CFO events about the projects they have successfully carried out with us and given suggestions to other CFOs and CEOs.

Grant Thornton Germany is a certified partner of Celonis® and zapliance, the leading providers of process mining technology for the finance function. The members of our data science team, who advise on process mining projects, and the team leader WP StB Patrick Oelze, are naturally also personally certified by Celonis® and zapliance.

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