A Tlou Group Subsidiary · Since 2006

Tlou Technologies & Consultants

Innovating and bridging the technology gaps in business and society — the interface between our clients, markets, data, and world-class ICT solutions.

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About Us

Value · ROI · Trust in Your Technology Partner

Tlou Technologies & Consultants (Pty) Ltd exists to provide interface platforms between our clients, markets, data, and suitable world-class ICT solutions across industries. We have been around since 2006, with extensive expertise on both local and international projects.

Our team has more than 30 years' collective experience in providing ICT consulting services and delivering innovative solutions. We cut through the ICT clutter and jargon to arrive at the best possible outcome our client-partners actually want.

Capability Stack

Artificial Intelligence · Augmented & Virtual Reality · Cognitive Cloud Computing · Angular & React · DevOps · Internet of Things (IoT) · Intelligent Apps · Big Data.

Tlou Technologies — business intelligence and analytics

Our Structure

Organogram

A flat, accountable structure — built for speed of delivery and clarity of ownership.

Business Intelligence

BI Best Practice Areas

Customer Intelligence

Best-practice processes for gathering and analysing customer information and activities — building deeper relationships and improving decision-making.

Dashboards & Scorecards

Turn data into information and information into knowledge. We deliver reporting, analysis, and performance management that aligns with strategy.

Data Governance

Integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for cloud-resident and on-premises endpoints — APIs, mobile, and IoT — developed, deployed, and monitored end-to-end.

Data Quality

Enterprise Data Management Maturity Models examining people, processes, and technology — improving integrity, reducing cost, increasing efficiency, and lowering risk.

Enterprise BI

Higher-capacity data management and analytics platforms that break down silos and deliver a holistic view of the business — governed, scalable, and trusted.

Enterprise Data Warehousing

Modern data warehousing patterns, ETL/EAI/EII pipelines, MDM and CDI — architected for analytics performance at scale.

Master Data Management

Authoritative records of customers, products, suppliers, and employees — consistent across systems, governed, and ready for analytics and AI.

Operational BI

Embedded analytics that drive day-to-day decisions — real-time dashboards, alerts, and actionable insights inside operational workflows.

Predictive Analytics & IoT

Statistical and machine-learning techniques applied to IoT data — assessment, hardware, IoT platform, predictive and realtime analytics in one delivery framework.

Unstructured Data in BI/DW

Bring documents, text, and media into the warehouse
Search, tag, and classify with AI
Combine with structured KPIs for richer insight

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Our BI Solutions Stack

Reporting, Analytics, Custom Visuals & Data Connectivity

We deliver across the leading BI platforms and self-service tools — matching the right stack to your data, governance, and team maturity.

Microsoft Power BI

Self-service and enterprise reporting, custom visuals, and broad data connectivity across the Microsoft data estate.

Sisense (Insight Software)

In-chip analytics for very large datasets — embedded analytics for product and operational teams.

IBM Cognos Analytics

Enterprise-class governed BI with AI-assisted authoring, dashboards, and reporting.

SAS Analytics

Advanced analytics, statistics, and predictive modelling for regulated industries.

Qlik View / Qlik Sense

Associative engine analytics for exploratory discovery and guided analytics applications.

Tableau

Visual analytics for fast, intuitive data exploration — from desktop to Tableau Server / Cloud.

Methodology

Analytics Cloud Onboarding — 9 Steps to Go-Live

Analytics Cloud Onboarding nine-step process diagram

1 · AC Onboarding

Stakeholder identification and licence confirmation — laying the foundation for delivery.

2 · Tenant Activation

Cloud enterprise architecture, security, and network setup ready for analytics workloads.

3 · User Creation

Project team activation with role-based access, provisioning, and SSO where required.

4 · Connection

Step-by-step data acquisition, updating your data, and utilising industry-specific connection guides.

5 · Data Preparation

Data staging — landing zones, cleansing, and conformance ready for modelling.

6 · Data Modelling

Bulk edits, hierarchical relationships, and dataset analysis with wrangling and cleaning.

7 · Create AC Story

Business content, best-practice processes, and performance optimisation baked into the story.

8 · Enhance AC Story

Predictive, planning, and digital boardroom features layered onto your live story.

9 · Go Live

Real-time analytics
Predictive scenarios
Digital boardroom
Ongoing optimisation

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Modernisation & Migration

From Legacy to Cloud — Five Delivery Models

We meet you where you are. Whether you're consolidating on-premises, lifting to Azure, or moving to a fully managed SaaS — we cover the full spectrum.

On-Premises / Co-Hosting

Legacy modernisation and in-memory database moves — managed in your data centre or a co-hosting facility.

Infrastructure (IaaS)

Managed in-house on Azure — infrastructure managed by Microsoft, platform managed by your team with our consultants.

Platform (PaaS) · Tlou Managed

Platform-as-a-Service on Azure, fully managed by Tlou — from O/S up through middleware, runtime, data, and applications.

STE — Single Tenant Edition

Single-tenant managed platform — dedicated isolation with Tlou-managed operations and security.

MTE — Multi-Tenant Edition

Multi-tenant SaaS — the entire stack managed by Tlou for fastest time-to-value.

Sample Blueprint

Short-Term Insurance Workflow

An example of how we map business processes — flagging new processes, process impacts, and new data elements end-to-end, from log-on through underwriting and policy switch.