ABeam Consulting: Driving digital transformation through dedicated analytics solutions

With a global team of experts, ABeam is helping clients leverage data for digital transformation.

Successfully leveraging data is at the core of digital transformation for any business. However, many enterprises are unable to implement digital processes due to a lack of sufficient support. This is why ABeam Consulting is committed to providing a dedicated team of consultants to help its clients leverage data for their businesses and drive digital transformation.

“When a company talks about digital transformation, it’s usually about empowering the current business model in a more digitalised way or starting a completely new business,” says Dr. See Yew Ong, Principal and GTM/IES BU Lead of ABeam. “However, one big challenge is the data they have. Sometimes companies run their business with multiple systems in different data formats. In those cases, the first step you will need to do is to cleanse and integrate those data so that they can be used to derive values from the new technologies,” he says.

ABeam Consulting Singapore has been present in the country for over 15 years and boasts over 150 professionals who have expertise and experience in various areas, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), robotic process automation (RPA), business intelligence analytics and cloud migration. It also has experts in business consulting, project management office service, regulatory compliance and change management.

“We have a strong team of consultants who specialise in understanding the challenges around getting data out of siloed systems and into the hands of key decision makers,” Dr. Ong notes.

ABeam Consulting’s traditional business domain is in ERP implementation and business process reengineering (BPR) among various industries. “Today everybody talks about digital transformation (DX). However, most companies are not clear with the goal after the transformation. We have been experiencing proofs of concept trying to use new technologies, including cloud, which end with just one single shot,” explains Dr. Ong.

Cutting-edge solutions for global clients
ABeam’s strategy for cloud-based solution is to find and collect new solutions across the world so that its clients no longer need to start from scratch in finding the solutions. Its proprietary ABeam Cloud platform offers these selected solutions connected to ERP template solutions. Further, ABeam LightStream has partnerships with leading software vendors to leverage the latest technology in analytics.

ABeam Consulting is also at the forefront of bringing automation solutions to its clients across the globe. In Japan, for instance, the company was able to develop more than 5000 robots for more than 200 companies. “Compared to Singapore where job is clearly defined, Japanese companies have much complicated roles & responsibility. To tackle with the situation, we had to be open minded to run the project and experienced many use cases in a very short time. Now we have experienced developing more than 5,000 robots for more than 200 companies,” Dr. Ong notes.

“Now, we are bringing those experiences to our clients worldwide and Singapore is one of the countries which we target. Our strength in robotic process automation lies in being flexible to adopt RPA in complicated business processes. Many tools now combine with workflow functions. Since the technology is still in the evolution phase, many new solutions are coming into the market. And most of the solutions are cloud-based,” he says.

ABeam LightStream Analytics
With the addition of ABeam LightStream Analytics in April, the company is seeing new opportunities to leverage its capabilities and expertise. “We see a couple major trends today. Widespread cloud and commoditized AI are expanding the reach of analytics significantly within enterprises. And server-less applications and containers are exposing cheap processing power without heavy infrastructure capex costs. These two factors are allowing organisations, which previously couldn’t leverage advanced analytics due to skills and cost, to capitalize on data for their business,” explains Chris Whitaker, Managing Director of ABeam LightStream Analytics.

He adds that in the past, organisations needed an entire team of data scientists to do deep analytics against their big data sets. These datasets were in heavy, expensive on-premise server clusters. The data science teams often worked separately, removed from the general business operations. “However, with the growth of the serverless cloud platforms, commoditized AI, and containerised computing, we see the traditional business analyst able to leverage far more advanced analytics without requiring the specialized data scientist skills,” Chris notes.

“The challenge today is that analytics is not truly used in most business decisions. Decisions are still heavily made by intuition, values, or ingrained habits at the individual and group level. The value of moving to data-based decision making is we reduce the natural human bias in making choices,” Chris adds.