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What Analytics Hot Spot Is Right For Your BFSI Business? | Blog

Enterprises that operate in the BFSI industry are the biggest consumers of analytics services. They realized earlier than companies in other sectors how powerful analytics can be in offering targeted and customer-centric solutions, exploiting the massive amount of available data, meeting dynamic customer demands with their expectation for real-time solutions, and helping them adapt to changing business environments.

There are four different regions around the world that provide analytics services to BFSI companies: India, Asia-Pacific (APAC,) nearshore Europe, and Latin America. Each has its own unique capabilities, characteristics, and value proposition.

To help BFSI firms select the right delivery location for their specific needs, we recently completed a “Locations Insider Report” named Global Hotspots – Analytics in BFSI.

Following is a look at the findings. To add context to them, we classify analytics solutions into four types based on their sophistication and business impact, as you see here.

What Analytics Hot Spot is Right for Your BFSI Business?

India

India is the leading delivery destination for analytics services in the BFSI industry. It has a large talent pool (more than 65 percent of the global sourcing FTEs in nearshore/offshore locations,) and offers high cost arbitrage. Because of these factors, a large number of BFSI companies have chosen to set up analytics Centers of Excellence (CoE) in key tier-1 locations such as Bangalore, Delhi NCR, and Mumbai. While both tier-1 and tier-2 locations support traditional analytics services delivery, and largely support customer, fraud, and finance risk analytics functions, advanced analytics services delivery is concentrated in tier-1 cities.

India is also seeing an uptick in start-up activity in analytics services delivery across multiple functions including customer, credit, fraud, and risk. Because these service provider start-ups can provide accelerated access to skilled resources either through partnerships or acquisitions, BFSI companies may want to factor this into their location selection strategy. In the PEAK Matrix evaluation included in our report, Bengaluru and Delhi emerged as “Leaders” because of their high cost arbitrage and significant talent availability. We identified Mumbai as a “Major Contender” due to its healthy mix of cost arbitrage and talent availability, and high maturity in traditional analytics services delivery.

APAC (excluding India)

Manila and Shanghai are the top locations in the APAC region. While services delivery is dominated by service providers offering traditional analytics services, a few locations also have a sizable shared services – or global in-house center – presence. The geography primarily supports finance and fraud risk management functions, and some companies are setting up analytics CoEs.

Nearshore Europe

In nearshore Europe, the top analytics services delivery locations are Budapest, Edinburgh, Prague, and Warsaw. While companies leverage the geography for both traditional and advanced analytics, advanced analytics services delivery for fraud and finance risk management is gaining traction, primarily due to region’s availability of high-quality talent and the ability to support work in many European languages. Certain nearshore locations, such as Belfast and Edinburgh, support high-end predictive and prescriptive analytics, not only because a highly qualified workforce is available, but also because of the need for advanced processes to be in proximity with business customers. Just like India, Poland is experiencing an uptick in start-up analytics service providers.

Latin America

Latin America is an emerging destination for analytics services. One of its key advantages is its ability to provide real-time monitoring and data analysis to the North American market due to its similar time zone. BFSI companies primarily leverage key locations in the region, such as Mexico City and Sao Paulo, for traditional analytics services across risk management functions such as credit and fraud.

Because of all that’s at stake, BFSI companies need to carefully evaluate locations for analytics services delivery against their specific business requirements. To learn more about the global analytics services landscape – availability of both entry-level and employed talent pool, market maturity, cost of operations across top locations, and implications for stakeholders including service providers, GICs, BFSI companies, country associations, and industry bodies – please read our recently released report, “Global Hotspots – Analytics in BFSI.”

Which Enterprises Achieve Best ROI on Data and Analytics Initiatives? Everest Group Reveals Who and How | Press Release

Enterprises that achieve the greatest success with data and analytics focus on customer experience and revenue growth

Those enterprises that outperform their peers in data and analytics within their global in-house centers (GICs) have an entirely different mindset than all the rest, according to Everest Group. The best-of-the-best organizations are intent on using data and analytics to improve effectiveness of existing delivery teams and achieve improved customer experience and revenue growth, whereas other enterprises focus primarily on cost savings.

“Interestingly, those organizations that focus their GIC’s data and analytics efforts on higher-level business impact also achieve far better cost-savings—three times as much—than those who focus on cost-savings alone,” said H. Karthik, partner at Everest Group.

Everest Group recently assessed the data and analytics capabilities of 50 enterprises’ global in-house centers (GICs) and also appraised the business outcomes of their data and analytics initiatives. Five GICs were deemed Pinnacle GICs™ for their ability to achieve significant impact through data and analytics, both in terms of cost savings and improvement in operational and strategic/business indicators.

In comparison to other GICs implementing data and analytics initiatives, Pinnacle GICs

  • Realized 1.3 to 1.5 times greater improvement in strategic areas as compared to other GICs. For example, Pinnacle GICs demonstrate much higher improvement in customer experience scores, top-line revenue growth and employee satisfaction as well as greater reduction in fraud- and risk-related incidents.
  • Achieved 1.4 times more improvement in staff productivity. Eighty percent of Pinnacle GICs witnessed significant improvement in staff productivity as compared to 39% of other GICs.
  • Generated 3 times the cost savings for the enterprise. Average cost savings (beyond cost arbitrage) delivered by Pinnacle GICs is 55% versus 19% cost savings delivered by other GICs.

These results and other findings are explored in a recently published Everest Group report: “Data and Analytics Maturity in GICs: Pinnacle Model™ Analysis.” Everest Group’s Pinnacle Model research methodology is designed to illuminate the best practices of global enterprises that are most effectively developing and deploying capabilities to achieve business outcomes.

“Pinnacle GICs teach us a great deal about how to achieve the greatest return on data and analytics investments,” said Karthik. “We have found that the journeys of Pinnacle GICs are quite unique, differing greatly from others not only in their technological and people capabilities but also in in their vision, their operating models, and the strategic, proactive role they play within the parent organization.”

With respect to successful data and analytics initiatives, Pinnacle GICs have these key enablers and investments in common:

  • Serve as their parent enterprise’s strategic partner in global data and analytics programs and are two times more likely to proactively develop solutions ahead of demand. Also, many more Pinnacle GICs drive enterprise-wide initiatives (100% for Pinnacle GICs versus 20% for others).
  • Achieve greater adoption of data and analytics across functions. Best-in-class GICs have achieved more than 50% penetration for multiple functions.
  • Own entirely the enterprise’s capability in key areas such as data management (60% of Pinnacle GICs), modeling and decision support (60%), visualization/dashboarding (80%) and data trust (60%).
  • Spend 1.7 times as much as other GICs, which allows them to invest in specific skills and technologies.

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About Everest Group
Everest Group is a consulting and research firm focused on strategic IT, business services, engineering services, and sourcing. We are trusted advisors to senior executives of leading enterprises, providers, and investors. Our firm helps clients improve operational and financial performance through a hands-on process that supports them in making well-informed decisions that deliver high-impact results and achieve sustained value. Our insight and guidance empowers clients to improve organizational efficiency, effectiveness, agility and responsiveness. What sets Everest Group apart is the integration of deep sourcing knowledge, problem-solving skills and original research. Details and in-depth content are available at http://www.everestgrp.com.

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