Technology Consulting Services

With current market trends, 1C projects are increasingly gaining in complexity and scale. This requires the established practices of managing large comprehensive programs and a process approach to implementing 1C-based solutions. Drawing on our experience in managing implementation teams of 100+ people and using a library of processes for various industries, our professionals will support you in planning your company’s resources.

Our team will support and roll out your SAP-based solution. If you decide to change over to a new Russian platform, we will help you select it and make the transition as seamless as possible, while retaining the existing functionality.

Our team delivers a comprehensive transformation of sales and customer relationship processes. This helps increase the number and lifetime value of customers, improve customer satisfaction, personalize relationships with customers and yield valuable insights to drive sales.
 

Modern CRM systems, e-commerce platforms and electronic data interchange (EDI) systems enable clients to conveniently and quickly place orders and receive order status updates, manage changes in order parameters and shipment priorities as well as receive real-time operational reports.

Production management is a major area that comprises several work streams, including production order planning and fulfillment, quality control, and inventory and production cost management. Our firm helps industrial enterprises in various sectors design development and business modeling strategies, improve business processes and implement information systems and new digital technologies that enhance operational performance. We will help you address challenges at various production process management levels (ERP, MES, APCS), thus improving your company’s performance as a whole.

Our company offers comprehensive enterprise asset management (EAM) solutions as well as solutions for automation of repair and maintenance management process based on various ERP systems: SAP S/4 HANA, 1C, Galaktika, TURBO and others. To achieve maximum implementation effect, our professionals use industry-specific process libraries in their projects and pay special attention to building equipment trees to correctly record costs and manage assets.

Our firm develops solutions that optimize planning systems: from forecasting demand to production cycles and related purchases. Properly configured SCM-systems help cut costs and losses in supply chains, optimize the level of inventories, increase the accuracy of demand forecasts and reduce sales losses caused by stockouts.

As Western vendors leave the Russian market and data protection laws are tightened, business applications developed in Russia are gaining ground. Our firm offers a full range of services to create a digital HR function of the future: from the development of an HR digital transformation strategy and diagnostics of the HR-related IT landscape to assistance in transitioning from Western to Russian software, i.e., in selecting, developing and implementing digital HR solutions.

Our firm has a dedicated approach and an in-house tool (B1 Discoverit) that allow us to perform a real-time digital analysis of labor costs and resources for business processes, determine the quality of processes and compare them with the target design as well as analyze the target and actual allocation of process responsibilities.

B1’s solutions and dynamic analytics capture the performance of a company’s processes. This enables work standardization and employment management.

Such a practice helps identify business processes and their deviations as well as routine operations subject to automation and robotization. This enables clients to cut process costs by an average of up to 20%.

The task may additionally include process and organizational transformation, as the implementation of a large number of robots requires changes in the operating model.

Our professionals perform a comprehensive analysis of a company’s current data practices and help build or transform its operating model and data governance processes, methodology and architecture, thus making the company more data-centric.

Our objective is to help clients rethink the roles of process participants and the data governance culture as a whole, change value creation approaches based on business data, use data to justify changes in the company’s business processes and ensure the required availability of corporate data to a wide range of users.

Accurate performance of the data governance function is critical to improving the quality of management decisions.

A reliable data governance platform gives a detailed overall picture of a company so that informed management decisions can be made at all levels.

When building the platform, we develop and implement an integrated data model, elaborate warehouse layers, arrange data flows, transformation and integration (ETL and ELT) and select and implement solutions meeting the business’s access-quality and information-processing requirements with the use of relational and non-relational databases, columnar and distributed warehouses and unstructured data repositories.
 

The implementation of a data governance platform enhances a company’s operational performance and enables long-term strategic forecasting.

A flexible system of dashboards and reports enables the interactive and timely delivery of information to persons making management decisions at all levels of a company’s organizational structure.

In building dashboards and reporting systems, our professionals help select and integrate solutions, including mobile ones, that most fully meet a company’s strategic goals and operational KPIs. Both foreign and domestic solutions are used for these purposes. In addition, when it is necessary to create functionality capable of addressing even the client’s most specific needs, we provide support for front-end development.

Dashboards and reporting systems not only reduce the time required to make high-quality decisions, but also provide management with an instantaneous picture of the company’s operations, making it possible to drill down from final values to inputs.

The combination of advanced technologies with knowledge of corporate finance and business planning processes and methodology increases business value and enables effective decision-making in all areas of capital management.

The use of high-tech financial modeling and data analysis methods helps companies understand and benefit from the opportunities and risks they face in today’s market. Our services include creating short- and medium-term business planning tools (including normative driver models) and multi-factor and plan-vs-actual analysis mechanisms.

Key offers and potential application: 

• Forecasting and scenario analysis
  • Driver-based forecasting
  • Scenario and cost-benefit analysis
  • Statistical/econometric forecast
  • Credit analysis
  • Liquidity forecast
     
• Strategic initiative analysis and asset portfolio assessment
  • Efficiency and profitability analysis
  • Strategic initiative/investment assessment
  • Value creation and optimization
  • Potential synergy assessment
  • Loan portfolio analysis
     
• Capital and investment allocation
  • Investment analysis and optimization
  • Prioritization in capital allocation
  • Build-vs-buy analysis

Our firm offers modern methods and advanced analytics for various industries and business functions.

The range of solutions includes: 

• Forecast services that can estimate future financial and operating indicators based on multi-factor models
• Comprehensive analytics providing a business with an exhaustive picture: customer purchases history and the next best offer, event probabilities and risks, productivity monitoring and anomaly detection
• Our understanding of modeling and data methods and tools enables us to deliver in-house systems and applied services for clients, including pricing and predictive close services

The use of flexible iterative development approaches, including Agile and SAFE methodologies, enables us to promptly produce the result desired by our clients, including in an environment requiring effective interaction between large cross-system and cross-project teams, as needed when comprehensive development and implementation projects are delivered for our clients’ major enterprises.

Our firm creates software products and solutions based on a study of user experience, i.e., the ways in which users will interact with the target solution that we are developing. This enables us to build the entire path of interaction between the user and the solution and, based on this, identify and formulate the most relevant and essential requirements for the product under development. During the project, our professionals create interactive prototypes that help the user get an idea of the final result even before the development stage. In addition, during the design process, clients’ brand book requirements are always taken into account.

Our firm offers full-cycle development to build a digital solution that most fully meets our client’s needs. We implement and support development projects, beginning with conception, provide a full analysis and design, and develop, implement and support our solutions.

Our services include: 

• Business intelligence – understanding business needs, goals and priorities and formulating end users’ requirements so that a system architecture can be created and a backlog of tasks can be built up for developers
• Architecture of digital solutions and platforms – using industrial approaches to build IT solutions that meet users’ requirements and priorities as well as their expectations of the required product’s performance and functional and non-functional properties.
• Back-end development – delivering the system’s business logic, a warehouse interaction layer and high-level language APIs in line with the requirement to have an autonomous, client-server, microservice and distributed approach to building architecture-driven solutions. As a rule, we deliver computational solutions with advanced and complex business logic that our clients need to achieve their goals. We use programming languages such as Java, Python, C# and ABAP and can bring in expertise in C/C++, Delphi and PHP.
• Front-end development – delivering an SPA application as a tool for interaction between the user and the system to most fully meet the user’s system management and efficient information collection needs. Our systems’ screens enable users to handle complex financial data, time series, tables, maps and statistics as well as find information in an efficient way.
• Testing – delivering manual and automated testing methods to check the delivered logic against the design and ensure the high quality of solutions

Integration of the developed systems and modules into the client’s landscape, subject to corporate architecture and security requirements.

Our understanding of clients’ business and methodological and development capabilities enable us to create and enhance in-house digital products:

• B1 GRAPH: Actuarial modeling
• B1 Discoverit
• B1 Pricing

Our company helps clients drive technological and innovative growth to support their business in a rapidly changing environment.

For successful transformation, our team brings a deep understanding of business expertise and technological trends and uses best practices to determine IT development priorities together with our client. We team up with the client to build a process from idea to value, using new practices and approaches that motivate us to create effective joint solutions.

To develop a vision of future IT architecture, our professionals take account of Western vendors’ restrictions and the experience of China and some sanctioned countries.

When building an architecture for each component of the business opportunity map or process, we identify potential development scenarios in view of applicable best practices and competitive advantages. We have already navigated the key decision point of “what to do with SAP” with various clients and know how to deal with this issue.

The divestment of Russian businesses by parent companies, the departure of over 300 IT vendors and producers from the Russian market and the immaturity of import-substitute solutions pose a serious challenge for companies. We have taken the transition journey on our own and together with our clients, making it as smooth as possible for business: from the selection of solutions and infrastructure to the launch of the entire architecture.

Product transformation requires a revision of both the ways in which IT solutions are created and the way in which IT and business functions interact.

Armed with flexible and agile performance enhancement tools, our team helps analyze how the business strategy matches products, compare current metric values with best practices, prioritize the backlog and assess the product team’s performance. We build a new system of relations between business and IT functions to gain autonomy in Е2Е value delivery.

One important aspect of an effective IT function is its organization. In addition to optimizing the organizational structure, determining the level of centralization, allocating areas of responsibility, setting up an IT shared services center and delineating responsibilities, our firm helps clients build IT processes to satisfy business requirements in the most effective way and optimize the cost of IT, including by analyzing best practices, eliminating excessive and duplicated process steps and developing effective IT metrics and KPIs.

Revenue is growing, but IT costs are growing even faster, and the IT function often becomes inefficient without proper management tools. In addition to organizational changes required to avoid efficiency losses in the future, it is necessary to sort out priorities and perform a comprehensive analysis of the most costly items: labor productivity, sourcing models, licensing, efficient use of infrastructure and procurement.

Project management is our home ground. The success of a project as a whole and the reception of business changes that effective IT projects should bring about depend largely on how effectively project management is organized. Our firm is glad to support you in setting up a project management office and developing a project methodology, making use of best practices in change management, testing and transition enablement.