1. TO SAIL AGAINST THE TIDES
YOU NEED ROCK-SOLID EXPERTISE

2. LACO – Partner in a changing world
Financially Sound
Founded in 1986
Strong balance Sheet
Revenues of €15M ($20M)
Strong expertise
+ 130 consultants
+ 1800 menyears of
experience
Loyal customer base
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3. Staffing
LACO offers expertise in:
All project roles
• Project Management
• Business Consultancy
• ICT Architecture
• Functional and Technical Analysis
• Application Development
• Follow-up and help desk
Technical knowledge
• BI Tools: SAS, Cognos, Microsoft, Business Objects, SAP B/W
• Mainframe: CICS, IMS, DB2, COBOL, PL1
• Databases: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase
• Application Development: JAVA, J2EE, .NET
Supporting tools: LACO Project Methodology and Data Warehouse Framework

4. BI Implementation THINK BIG, START SMALL:
NOT A BIG BANG APPROACH !
LACO’s Approach
Phased approach: Pragmatic approach: Customer oriented
Assessment Flexibility in the approach:
Scope phasing Expertise
BI Vision Definition Best Practices: Coaching
BI Product • Frameworks Project
Installation & • Methodology
Configuration
BI phased project
realization
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5. Tailored solutions for your industry
Banking & Insurance
LACO has build strong expertise in the entire risk
managment process for both banks and insurance Building the financial
companies. data warehouse
The risk avoidance strategy is based on the Defining and
implementation of mandatory regulations (e.g. implementing specific
Basel II, Basel III, Solvency II) and the definition of data models
strong data models. Reporting services
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6. Tailored solutions for your industry
Healthcare
LACO has developed a flexible solution which
helps hospitals to optimize the overall Patient profiling & insight
financial position. Invoicing
This is based on greater transparency and
Pharmacy
insight on cost and revenu distribution which
helps them in the continuous search for public Minimal Clinical Data
funding: (MCD)
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7. Tailored solutions for your industry
Manufacturing, Retail and Distribution
LACO has build strong expertise in turning Full end-to-end visibility of the supply
supply chains into competitive advantage: chain
Cost allocation throughout the entire
chain
Sales & Operations planning for
higher efficiency
Data mining & Predictive Analysis for
future success
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8. Tailored solutions for your industry
Life Science
LACO has an in-depth knowledge of the Clinical data management.
Clinical Research process. This Building the clinical data warehouse.
strategic activity for pharmaceutical Advanced statistical analysis and data
industries relies heavily on data mining.
collection and advanced analysis.
Internet enabled applications and the
We offer expertise and solutions for:
dissemination of information over the
internet.
Supply chain visibility
S&OP
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9. Tailored solutions for your industry
Application Development Education
ProjectMaster Customized training
Health Care Standard training
Specific BI Applications Computer Based Training
• to manage the business
Specific Operational Applications
• to run the business
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