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Opportunity Discovery
Surface unmet demand and shifts before the market makes them obvious.
ASBIS already owns the data, the operations and the visibility. Decision Intelligence is the additive layer that turns them into a repeatable decision advantage — and AI lets us build it in weeks, not years.
Take the full narrative in the linear briefing, or drop straight into any part of the portal.
The full executive narrative — from the decisions we make on instinct to the capability that changes them.
The first business pilot — what else we can profitably sell to the customers we already have.
Proof the same approach works on external market data — the live market-intelligence platform behind the capability.
The board briefing note: the pilot, the evidence, governance, and the single next step.
How it relates to IT4Profit and Power BI, whether it's an IT project, governance and cost.
Two layers are mature. The third — turning information into opportunities and decisions — is the gap this initiative closes. Select a layer to see what it owns.
Order management, logistics, fulfilment and the operational backbone that keeps ASBIS distributing at scale.
It executes decisions — it doesn't tell you which decisions to make, or where tomorrow's opportunity is.
Reporting and dashboards — a clear, trusted view of past performance across the business.
It describes the past. It doesn't surface hidden opportunities, recommend actions, or warn of what's coming.
Opportunity discovery, decision support and rapid validation — built on ASBIS's own data and sharpened by external signals.
It sits on top of the first two layers. IT4Profit and Power BI stay in place — nothing is replaced.
Additive and low-risk — it sits on top of the systems ASBIS already runs. No rip-and-replace, no disruption to operations or reporting.
Treat this as a strategic ASBIS initiative — not an IT side-project — with executive sponsorship.
Controlled feeds of ASBIS sales, margin and portfolio data to unlock the decision layer.
A fraction of a traditional BI program — funding the owner, data access and tooling.
One customer segment and one sales team to prove decision impact end-to-end within a quarter.
No. IT4Profit remains the operational backbone and Power BI remains the reporting standard. Decision Intelligence is an additive layer that sits on top of both — it consumes what they already produce and turns it into opportunities and recommendations. Nothing is replaced or disrupted.
It is a business capability first, and a technology project second. It started from a business problem — how to make better decisions with the data ASBIS already owns — and it is owned by the business that uses it. Technology is the means, not the goal.
The layer reads from controlled, permissioned feeds of existing internal data and licensed external signals. It introduces no new system of record and changes no operational data — it analyses copies under the same governance ASBIS already applies to its reporting.
AI has collapsed the cost and time of building and validating this kind of capability — from 12–24 months and several teams, to weeks. That is what let a working market-intelligence platform reach production already, as Stage 2 of the roadmap.
A fraction of a traditional BI program. Because it's additive and validated in a contained pilot, the downside is bounded: if the pilot doesn't create decision value, it stops there. The upside is a repeatable advantage that compounds with every data source added.