From dashboards to decisions

Dashboards are in place, KPIs are defined, and reporting is available across the business. Yet insight is often fragmented across teams, systems, and reports. As a result, many leaders still struggle to turn insight into action.

Why insight is hard to scale

Most analytics challenges do not originate from a lack of tools. They arise when data, metrics, and business definitions are not aligned across the organisation.

Common challenges include:

Different teams reporting different numbers for the same performance area
Inconsistent KPI definitions across departments
Limited visibility into business performance
Slow reporting cycles and manual analysis
Analytics foundations that are not ready to support AI initiatives

Without shared metrics and consistent information, organisations spend more time explaining numbers than acting on them.

We wanted to improve our data-driven management tools and bring data from all our critical systems into our own data lakehouse. Our goal was to adopt modern, cost-efficient development tools built on Microsoft technology.

– Topi Hevonoja, Chief Financial Officer at the Blue Ribbon Foundation

Building business insight

Successful analytics starts with understanding how the business measures success. We help organisations create a shared view of performance by connecting business goals, data, and reporting. The result is a foundation that supports better decisions today while enabling future growth and innovation.

From insight to performance

Modern analytics should do more than explain the past. By making insight easier to access and apply, organisations can move from reactive reporting to proactive performance management. Leaders gain greater visibility into trends, teams can identify opportunities earlier, and organisations can respond with greater confidence.

As analytics maturity grows, organisations become better equipped to anticipate change, explore future scenarios, and respond more proactively to new opportunities and risks.

AI-ready analytics

AI is changing expectations on analytics. Business users increasingly expect answers in natural language, automated recommendations, and insights delivered directly within their workflows.

Delivering this requires more than AI technology alone. It depends on clear business definitions, accessible data, and analytics foundations that support both people and AI.

We combine strong analytics foundations with pragmatic AI approaches that help organisations accelerate action while maintaining transparency and control.

Business outcomes

Better analytics creates a clearer understanding of performance across the organisation. Teams can respond faster to change, collaborate more effectively, and focus on actions that create value.

The result is stronger alignment, better decisions, and measurable business outcomes.

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Epical migrates Martela’s data warehouse to the cloud – a new environment facilitates reporting

Martela migrated its data warehouse and reporting environment to the cloud together with Epical as part of a broader ERP transformation. The new platform provides reliable, up‑to‑date data, lowers infrastructure costs, and creates new opportunities for flexible and scalable reporting.

Epical migrates Martela’s data warehouse to the cloud – a new environment facilitates reporting

A data warehouse and reporting solution that supports the valuable work and impact monitoring of the Blue Ribbon Foundation (suom. Sininauhasäätiö)

The Blue Ribbon Foundation supports people experiencing homelessness and vulnerable life situations. To better understand and demonstrate the impact of its work, the foundation partnered with Epical to build a modern data warehouse and reporting solution. The new platform enables more efficient analysis, improved transparency, and stronger data-driven decision-making across the organization.

The cloud-based data warehouse and reporting solution built by Epical supports St1’s decision-making

St1 modernised its decision‑making with a cloud‑based data warehouse and reporting solution built by Epical. The solution provides a 360° view of business operations, supports data‑driven decisions across the organisation, and scales with St1’s evolving needs in a growing, Nordic business landscape.

Data warehouse supports Otava’s financial reporting – ADA plays a key role in the transformation

Otava modernised its financial reporting by moving from on‑premises systems to a cost‑effective Azure‑based data warehouse. With Epical’s Analytics Data Accelerator, Otava built a unified, scalable data platform that improves data quality, accelerates reporting, and provides a solid foundation for future financial transformation.

Tuomi Logistics found the ideal solution for information management from Epical

Tuomi Logistiikka Oy is a joint procurement and logistics company aiming to strengthen data utilization and data‑driven management across its operations. To support its strategic goals, Epical partnered with Tuomi Logistics to implement a new data‑driven management platform and operating models tailored to a data warehouse environment, enabling better use of operational data and more informed, timely decision‑making.

Enersense’s data warehouse solution supports growth and data-driven management

Enersense built a scalable data warehouse together with Epical to support growth and data‑driven management across the group. The solution provides a unified data foundation, improves collaboration between business and IT, and enables better insights for strategic and operational decision‑making.

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