Cut through the noise. Make your data work for you.
Whether your goal is to improve business performance through actionable insights into key KPIs, or pinpoint and control internal weaknesses, insider threats, misconduct or fraud, the Salient Data Analytics team can help you unlock the secrets your data holds.
With decades of experience in Big 4 firms, and exposure across multiple business processes and systems, our multi-disciplinary specialists are uniquely qualified to map, investigate and analyse your data landscape. We’ll help you find and follow the breadcrumbs to uncover the truth behind the complexity.
Salient’s multi-disciplinary Data Analytics team includes compliance and governance specialists, business analysts, forensic analysts, data scientists and technologists.
This diverse skill set provides a variety of perspectives on every project, enhancing our ability to transform, analyse and present your data in more meaningful and insightful ways. As a result, we can efficiently and effectively connect you to your most powerful business insights, protect the integrity of your data, and enable you to proactively detect and prevent fraud, loss and wastage.
With years of experience in analytics, the visualisation of data, and forensic data analysis under our belt, Salient has developed a comprehensive set of tried and tested, robust workflows and processes. These enable us to protect the integrity of your data at all times and ensure the accuracy of the analysis results.
In forensic analytics cases, we rigidly adhere to chain of custody, forensic collection and preservation best practices and all applicable standards for the documentation and preservation of data in a forensically sound manner.
Data Analysis processes available through Salient include:
Data analysis and forensic analytics tools are not “one-size-fits-all”. Depending on your environment and specific requirements, we are able develop, design and deploy, amongst others, the following technologies:
To get the best results from any data analysis or forensic engagement, it’s vital to have an accurate understanding of your business, its data landscape, and the desired outcomes of the project.
To help clarify these details, the Salient team of business and data analysts begins every engagement by holding a workshop with the required stakeholders in your business.
The aim of this workshop is to:
The results of these workshops are then used to build a functional and technical specification that accurately defines the scope of the engagement. This enables us to refine timelines and project management activities and streamline processes moving forward.
Our Data Analytics and Forensic Analysis workshops are also available as standalone services for businesses interested in refining their own BI or forensic analytics processes or exploring the potential benefits of an analysis engagement. Find out more.
Salient offers both on-premises and cloud Forensic Data Analytics services, leveraging a combination of deep analytical and technical skills to enable you to identify patterns of potential fraud, misappropriation, corruption or other nefarious activity.
Our interactive, visual, analytical models and dashboards are designed to discreetly overlay your transaction systems and data sources to provide proactive monitoring capabilities to your internal auditors or external forensic professionals.
Using our interfaces, these teams can quickly identify anomalous activities and actively prevent and respond to potentially fraudulent transactions.
Forensic Data Analytics can be performed in response to a specific investigation, or as an ongoing, preventative measure against future fraud risks.
Key benefits include:
Salient’s Business Performance Analytics team uses a uniquely integrated approach to data modelling and visualisation that enables you to pull critical business insights from both structured and unstructured data sets.
Available on-premises or in the cloud, our dynamic, interactive dashboards make it easy to explore and interrogate your data to reveal hidden patterns, trends and relationships.
With our help, you can be sure the right information gets to the right people at the right time to enable insightful and actionable decisions in line with tactical and strategic objectives.
All Salient Business Performance Analytics implementations are designed to provide: