Struggling with Customer Analysis? Benefits of Outsourcing

Unless your data analytics budget sits north of $250k, your winery will see immediate benefits from outsourcing the work.  These advantages span across cost savings of up to 80%, faster and stronger returns, and simplicity for you and your team.

Savings

You will save money and get higher value for each dollar

• Staff - to truly do modern analytics you need a team of specialists, but you don’t need them full-time.
• Technology - modern BI solution costs decrease at higher volumes, which you gain as part of an agency
• Time - keep your time and expertise focused on your winery, not an analytics operation..

Speed

• Time to Value - see results in the time it takes to onboard a new team member, 
• Rate of Innovation - a dedicated team creating new data visualizations, not a slice of a person’s time

Simplicity

• Answers -  you want the answers that lift your business.  Full stop.
• Focus - your team maintains focus on the decisions and actions to drive your business, not the complexities of a data team
• Cost of Ownership - software updates, bugs, general care and feeding of the system? Not your problem.

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Staff

Modern data analysis requires expertise in multiple specialty areas::

• Infrastructure, Security, and Operations
• Data ingestion and processing
• Analysis
• Visualization
• Interpretation
• Application to your business

One person can not be an expert in all those areas.  Unless your HR budget exceeds $200k, you’ll have gaps and weaknesses in your operations.  That means you get a diminished value from your overall investment because of weak links in the chain.

Technology

Unless you are one of the largest wineries, you won’t realize the benefits of scale.  A firm that serves many wineries does capture these savings and can pass them along to you.  Data ingestion is a clear example.  Tools have sliding costs based on the total volume of data used for the account.  That means 10 individual wineries pay significantly more than if those 10 wineries used one account.  The great news is that security capabilities allow the data to remain independent and to never mix at any stage of the solution.

Licensing is another savings area.  As our client, you license seats, not the full system.  This can save you thousands of dollars a year on a single tool like Tableau.  This also extends to the cost of ownership.  Working with Winealytics takes away all the overhead of managing the systems, keeping abreast of the updates, and other factors that put a tax on your internal team.

Time

You started a winery, not a technology company.  Everytime you hire a staff member and build out a new business function it costs leadership time and focus.  Why allow yourself to get distracted from your passion and core objective:  building an amazing winery.

Time to Value

We’ve done this over 100 times, with all the efficiencies baked into our process.  We know the questions to ask, the steps to get started, and have proven best practices to get from kickoff to launch in the shortest time possible.  Our library of reports get configured for your teams, your goals get incorporated into tailored analysis.  New customers sit down for the initial benchmarking results review within a month of project launch, around the time the new hire knows how to make coffee for the office.

Rate of Innovation

We specialize in winery DTC and have a team staffed to support a portfolio of clients.  That means our team constantly innovates and releases new best practices and elements of analysis that apply to your work.  So while we have someone tailoring custom reports and analysis for your winery, we also have folks adding new data monitors, new visualizations, and insights that apply to your efforts.

Answers

You need the insights and answers to achieve your goals for the winery.  Time you spend noodling around in Tableau or fixing a data analysis issue takes you away from executing your plans, weakening your business.  Our insights combined with your team’s expertise creates success at velocity..

Cost of Ownership

An analytics practice requires maintenance and upkeep.  That creates a drag on your team, can create distracting interruptions to service, plus a need to stay on top of a fast moving field.  Why not work with experts who do this on a dedicated basis rather than bringing that tax onto your staff?

Learning

Your team learns to make a hypothesis, execute it, measure the results, creating a learning loop.  That means the next time, they build on that knowledge, strengthening your team and their choices.  Get off the hamster wheel of all execution without evaluation, doing the same old same old because that is what you’ve always done.  Learn from your past, sharpen your planning, and continuously improve your operations.

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