West Monroe Partners LLC

Geospatial

Are geographic boundaries critical to your marketing or other operations?

Do you have the data available to evaluate market entry or exit strategies effectively, or to see exactly where material exists within your logistics network?

Are you able to analyze business patterns over time and project future trends?

Do you have so much data that you find it difficult to compile in such a way that it facilitates decision making?

Do you need to integrate third-party geographic data with your data warehouse?

The right view of a situation can be the key to improving competitiveness, protecting your interests, and managing an efficient enterprise. But in many situations, columns of numbers on a data table don't tell the whole story. For a more complete picture, an organization needs to combine operational data with geographical information to display visual patterns and trends across areas. This is role of geospatial data.

Every picture tells a story.

Geospatial solutions capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display geographically referenced data in a visual format to aid decision making. Long used primarily by government agencies, geospatial information systems and data offer powerful and practical benefits that help organizations of all types address key marketing, operational, compliance, and other needs.

Geospatial solutions have many potential applications in healthcare management, finance and insurance, real estate, manufacturing, law, government, not-for-profit, and other sectors.

If you are looking for a better basis for decision making, talk to West Monroe Partners. We have extensive experience creating business intelligence processes and applications -- including geospatial solutions -- to achieve a wide range of goals:

Fine-tune market planning and strategy and ensure that investments -- such as new product offerings -- are aligned with your highest potential markets.

Set rates and fees in line with area-specific factors.

Manage compliance, as well as a range of environmental, financial, and other risks.

Augment data warehouse or management systems to provide better business intelligence.

Enable a real-time view of materials and inventory, and identify ways to improve supply chain efficiency.

Our geospatial solutions include:

Web mapping

It sounds basic, but for companies and customers to connect, customers need to be able to find businesses, and businesses need to know where their current and prospective customers are. For any business with multiple locations -- particularly those that are developing new locations or changing locations often, such as banks with branches and ATMs, apartment and condominium developments, pharmacies, etc. -- web mapping can help make those connections. West Monroe Partners can apply web mapping to improve marketing and customer communication, and more.

Market analysis

In many areas of business, location makes a real difference. Accurate location information -- including customer usage or “patron” data, crime rates, traffic patterns, housing prices, and more -- can improve decision making, reduce risk, and adapt quickly to change. West Monroe Partners applies geospatial solutions that can help you conduct the market analyses that identify trends and drive effective decision making -- merger and acquisition decisions, location acquisition or disposition decisions, and targeted marketing strategies, to name a few.

Business intelligence

Good business decisions are dependent on complete, accurate, and up-to-date intelligence. For many organizations -- from residential and commercial developers, to utilities, to insurance, to transportation companies -- geospatial analyses can complete the picture. West Monroe Partners applies these analyses to support an array of business issues: “best” or “poor” location analyses, inventory tracking and management, environmental compliance, customer trends, market conditions, and others.

Logistics and supply chain

Accurate information about your supply chain can provide an array of benefits -- decreased inventory loss, increased shipping reliability, and increased compliance with transportation regulations and processes. West Monroe Partners applies geospatial analyses to help transportation, logistics, and manufacturing organizations track inventory and assets, clean accurate or “dirty” data, visualize supply chain status, manage shipments of high-risk or regulated material, improve process inefficiencies, and build competitive advantage.