Gulf Air picks Finesse for BI implementation

Gulf Air, the national carrier of the Kingdom of Bahrain, has partnered with Finesse for the implementation of a business intelligence (BI) solution using Qlik, a leading product in the field.

Finesse has been selected by Gulf Air as a strategic partner to define a robust BI platform to be used across the airline and to implement enterprise-level dashboards and reports. Such platform will also perform complex scenario-based analysis, to create visualisation of data and view reports and dashboards in all forms across devices.

This initiative comes as a part of Gulf Air’s IT strategy and roadmap to use business intelligence platform to provide better and enhanced visibility and insights on the airline’s operations. Finesse with its experience in this space will constitute a valuable input in this direction.

To meet Gulf Air’s requirements for an enterprise-wide business analytics solution, Finesse proposed the Qlik Sense Business Intelligence tool. The Associative Data Indexing capability which enables the user to explore relationships between data derived from various sources, intuitive interface, wide selection of charts, unique colour cues – all make this w well-suited platform to analyse and visualise data.

Dr. Jassim Haji, director of information technology at Gulf Air, said: “Driving insights and information from data is the key for strategic and tactical business decision making.  With such Business Intelligence solution, we will bring different data sources together to provide unique actionable knowledge that will help the airline to monitor its business operations and make the right decisions on a timely basis which is critical for the airline’s sustainability.  This initiative will leverage Gulf Air’s Hybrid Cloud for fast and quick implementation and will complement the existing Big Data solution to achieve the highest level of sophistication in business analytics from internal and external data sources for our business users”.

Sunil Paul, COO, Finesse said, “We are extremely happy that Gulf Air has chosen Finesse for this strategic project. Gulf Air will reap tangible business benefits by way of this engagement. Our team has the proven experience and expertise to undertake enterprise wide business intelligence implementation projects that translate complex requirements into business solutions. We believe our services can bring forth significant benefits to the end users at Gulf Air. And we would like to thank Gulf Air for providing us this opportunity.”