New UK BI Firm Targets Computing's Middle Men

In the UK, Dave Stevinson, former Sales Director of parts and peripherals distributor VIP Computers, has launched a new analytics and business Intelligence (BI) firm, GNR Corporation, focused on clients in the IT distribution 'channel'.

Stevinson left VIP last October with the aim of starting 'a channel-focused boutique firm dedicated to agile analytics, Business Discovery and Reporting'. GNR offers a series of 'proven, trusted and tested' dashboards for use by different business departments, giving users a real-time view of KPIs.

Stevinson says the majority of channel firms are 'still using spreadsheets and simple flat reports to run their business', despite the rise of BI and analytics. 'The amount and sources of data firms are creating is increasing exponentially and it has become a real issue. Vast data lakes are appearing and rising rapidly inside companies - some will swim in these lakes while others will drown in them' he suggests.

GNR aims to deliver such companies from 'armies of spreadsheet warriors creating complicated & alternative versions of the truth' - taking all a client firm's data sources and consolidating them into a structured reporting system with team specific dashboards for all key departments. This should allow them to 'quickly and efficiently harness their data so that they can spend zero time analysing and more time acting on the insight.'

The company's home page is at www.gnr.co.uk .