CIO Bulletin

cBEYONData – A purpose-built platform improving organization's RoI through effective utilization of business intelligence and data analytics solutions

Owning and managing a business rarely leave the owner with sufficient time or ability to handle all marketing, legal and financial matters themselves. This is the reason why business owners approach professional service firms. Professional service firms provide businesses with specialist services by lawyers, financial advisers, IT consultants, accountants, architects and designers, to give some examples. These services help clients run their businesses and are sought when those skills aren't available in-house. Entrepreneurs experience various challenges like tight deadlines, performing several roles simultaneously and working busy schedules. They are constantly interrupted by phone calls, messages and emails. Another small business task which is essential yet time consuming is administrative work, including payroll and book-keeping. Professional services firms set an important example to their clients – whether they provide financial planning and accounting, healthcare, engineering, training and development, or an endless array of any services. These firms have the essential expertise and specialist talent to help entrepreneurs.

cBEYONData is one such purpose-built professional services company that specializes in supporting mission-driven agencies and organizations with the enhancement and automation of business processes, cloud migrations and enablement, business intelligence (BI), data management, data analytics, agile project and process management, dashboards, and geo-mapping. The company brings rapid deployment of specific financial management reporting and compliance solutions to agencies and organization for the CFO Offices. They leverage these capabilities to improve their customer’s return on investment, enabling higher success with achieving the customer’s mission.

Helping Federal CFO Organizations with Their Budgeting and Reporting Needs

CFO Control Tower: The CFO Control Tower suite is a scalable on-demand solution that enhances financial systems. The CFO Control Tower can be implemented wholly or customized and implemented as individual components to fit your organization’s needs. The CFO Financial Management & Analytics (FM&A) solution is focused on financial management and execution and consists of pre-built components, content, and collateral to produce reports, alerts, and analytics delivered through a single integrated solution. The CFO Budget and Spend (BAS) solution is focused on budget formulation and preconfigured to meet the typical needs of federal budgeting organizations. The BAS solution is designed to improve and automate a wide range of planning, forecasting, consolidation, and financial reporting requirements.

CFO Budget and Spend (BAS): It includes industry best practices for your budgeting process. Their budgeting and spend solution is preconfigured to meet the typical needs of federal budgeting organizations and is designed to improve and automate a wide range of planning, forecasting, consolidation, and financial reporting requirements. The BAS interactive, performance and execution dashboard empowers users at all levels to quickly visualize and monitor the performance of their organization and be able to quickly drill down any variances to explore the details of the variance.

CFO FM&A Solution: It contains pre-built components and a proven service delivery process that accurately, predictably, and affordably provides right now financial analytics and reports. Each component group within the CFO and CDO office (Budget, Procurement, Financial Reporting, Audit, Payroll, General Ledger, External Compliance Reporting, Financial Systems Support, Performance Management) can leverage the FM&A solution to quickly automate their business processes which ensures financial accuracy and significantly reduces time spent on manual data aggregation and manipulation. Traditionally, accessing analytics and reports from a financial system meant enabling government staff to manually “wrangle” data to produce clean data for reporting. Manual wrangling can delay end-users access to the most recent data and may create an over-reliance on lagging performance measures.

"We strongly believe in building solutions that specifically match each end-user’s need, and not just providing a one-size-fits-all solution(s)."

Providing Robust Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Solutions

Business Intelligence, Analytics, Reporting, & Visualizations: Many agencies and organizations want to modernize their data analytic infrastructures and practices, including their information management, data quality, and data integration to improve agility and efficiency. However, they don’t know where to start. This is when cBEYONData comes to the rescue. The company offers a range of data analytic, reporting, and visualization services for their customers. Their solutions help optimize the customer’s capabilities to leverage various types of data and turn it into something they can use to make better informed choices. They work closely with customers to refine their vision and address their challenges to ensure they deliver the most appropriate solution to meet their BI needs. The company's alliances with technology market leaders allow them to deliver and implement state-of-the-art data analytics and business automation solutions to their customers. cBEYONData has extensive experience with a vast array of technologies and products, and every solution they implement is tailored to meet the specific mission needs of their individual customers. They have developed a customized visual content development methodology that is based on years of experience and lessons learned.

Federal Compliance Reporting & Audit Support: Federal regulations affecting financial audits and reporting are growing increasingly rigorous and the need for credible auditing has never been greater. Now more than ever, Federal CFOs need support with their audit and financial reporting. cBEYONData supports the agency or organization’s CFO with meeting complex financial, budget, performance, and compliance reporting requirements while helping to ensure the agency/organization is providing accessible and transparent financial information. They specialize in the data security, data integration, data quality, analytics, and reporting an agency needs to meet their government-wide Treasury Account Symbol Adjusted Trial Balance System (GTAS), Technology Business Management (TBM), and Digital Accountability Transparency Act (DATA Act) compliance requirements. The company works with your existing financial management information systems to integrate data from multiple sources to provide a holistic view of your finance and program information.

Data Warehouse, Data Integration & Management: Federal agencies and organizations are looking for a simplified yet scalable approach to managing their most critical data. Older data management approaches where information is inefficiently replicated across redundant storage types and locations that offer little to no visibility is no longer sustainable. cBEYONData’s approach to data integration and management is to ensure your data is inspected, accurate, cleansed, integrated, and secure to prevent quality and redundancy issues during functional reporting and analysis. cBEYONData believes data governance and stewardship is vital to ensure that your data is cleansed and ready to integrate into new systems. Their data integration and management solutions are accomplished by utilizing leading technology software and customized cloud solutions with an Agile-based approach preferred today by numerous federal agencies and organizations. cBEYONData provides a holistic solution to the customers for data governance and stewardship initiatives that utilizes best practices and lessons learned, leveraging its people’s 20+ years of experience improving and elevating the customer’s environments.

High Performance Cloud Solutions: Federal and regulated agencies are rapidly adapting the use of cloud computing for efficiency and greater collaborative efforts. During this movement, application providers are working to ensure their products are certified, secure, and readily available to meet the stringent requirements of their Federal and regulated customers. cBEYONData is partnered with the best in cloud solutions to provide their customers with the most appropriate solution to fit their needs. The company helps the customers build, migrate, and utilize cloud applications to reap the significant benefits from the cloud application implementations. They have gained immeasurable experience and lessons learned from their projects and can assist Federal customers and other organizations in all the cloud support service needs.

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): It is the use of software with artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to handle high-volume; repeatable tasks that previously required humans, thus allowing employees to focus on more strategic initiatives. cBEYONData is building RPA Solutions for multiple federal agencies that transform and streamline workflow and are tailored to users’ specific needs while making better use of the existing technology. Their approach starts with a careful step-by-step business assessment before technical development work is started, which includes meeting all security standards required within your agency. The process is collaborative with their customers and allows organizations to automate functions at a fraction of the cost. RPA is non-intrusive in nature as it does not require changes or replacements to existing systems.

Dyson Richards| CEO

Dyson Richards applies three decades of experience and skills building federally focused IT and consulting companies to continue to enhance cBEYONData’s reputation as a leading product development and professional services firm. Dyson works with customers, government leaders, strategic partners and cBEYONData’s practitioners to align corporate offerings with the evolving needs of their current and future clients. Dyson served in the U.S. Navy where he operated nuclear power plants aboard the USS Enterprise. After eight years of service, he leveraged his Navy roots in the government contracting industry serving in roles of increasing responsibility at Newport News Shipbuilding, Keyfile Corporation, Vredenburg, American Management Systems (AMS), RGS, USfalcon, and Xcelerate Solutions.

Mr. Richards holds a M.S. degree in Technology Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus and a B.S. degree from The New School in New York.