CFO advisory & business intelligence solutions provider StraitsBridge adds to industry honours in 2016 with recognition within the Business Intelligence Analytics industry – garnering a new profile in APAC CIO Outlook’s special edition, ‘25 Most Promising Business Intelligence Solution Providers 2016,’ published in March 2016. StraitsBridge has continued to break new ground in Business Intelligence within the past year benefiting its customers through continuing excellence in delivering top-notch solutions. The firm helps financial institutions get the most value from their BI investments, inspiring confidence that they are getting required insights to make informed decisions.

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A list of companies that are at the
forefront of providing Business Intelligence Solutions to the industry
recognized by magazine as
Managing Editor
Rachi V Sharma
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
25 MOST PROMISING
SOLUTION PROVIDERS - 2016
Description:
Company:
StraitsBridge Advisors
A company providing
advisory and execution support
services across the CFO domain
in financial services, including
banks, asset management
firms, private banks, and other
financial institutions
Key Person:
Sanjay Uppal,
Founder & CEO
Website:
straitsbridge.com
T
he proliferation of data management tools and
techniques have played a significant role in
changing the technology landscape, helping
companies to access data from multiple sources
at much greater speed. With this, organizations are
adding a new dimension to their operations through
technological excellence, providing customers with
increased control over the streams of data that flows
constantly within an organization. While their work
has shown us how data-driven analytics can strongly
enhance decision making and produce better business
outcomes,ithasalsomadeusawareaboutdatadiscovery
challenges and real costs of implementation. Business
Intelligence has now become an important technology
for collecting and analyzing data and offers a broad set of
applications that allow businesses to transform raw data
into actionable insights. BI tools have been successfully
deployed by IT organizations to reduce overhead project
costs.The leading Business Intelligence providers bring
data quality to workflows of organizations and deliver
unique features for efficient data management. Beyond
the advanced analytics solutions that serve as the core
benefits offered by BI companies, BI services have also
helped business heads to leverage new technologies
from different devices for further processing valuable
information.According to a recent report,the BI market in
the AsiaPacificisoneofthefastestgrowingwithAustralia
expected to lead in the next three to five years due to its
large scale BI spending.This rising growth of BI service
providers has unlocked new revenue opportunities with
the existing IT infrastructure, so organizations can truly
be scalable.
This edition of APAC CIOoutlook brings you the
“25 Most Promising Business Intelligence Solution
Providers.” The list presents to you some of the most
prominent organizations in the industry who are capable
of leading their clients towards excellence by supporting
them beyond an advisory level.The proposed list aspires
to assist companies gain from the services of reliable BI
market leaders, who can develop and support business
growth by helping them build analytic capabilities in
innovative and time-tested BI platforms.
MARCH 2016 APACCIOOUTLOOK.COM
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SPECIAL
25 Most Promising Business Intelligence Solution Providers 2016

2. March 201645
F
inance is a critical business
function in financial institutions
that if mismanaged can lead to
significantly adverse outcomes. To
deal with finance related tasks, most
businesses, specifically, banks and
financial institutions typically rely
on CFOs (Chief Financial Officers)
to drive business growth, eliminate
suboptimal costs, and ensure robust
financial controls. However, recent
years have seen the CFO’s role evolve
enormously. They now face increased
pressure from ongoing economic
uncertainties, intensified regulatory
oversight, need for financial
restatements and increased investor
scrutiny. To meet these requirements,
financial institutions often turn
to advisory firms for assistance.
However, there often lies a gap
between the advice and execution
support CFOs need to enhance
enterprise-wide financial effectiveness
and what traditional consulting firms
offer. This gap was identified by an
industry veteran Sanjay Uppal, who
holds over two decades of experience
in various senior finance & CFO roles.
He, with the vision to bridge this gap,
founded StraitsBridge Advisors in
2010. This Singapore based company
provides pragmatic advisory and
execution support to CFOs across
banks and financial services firms.
The StraitsBridge team consists
of former CFOs, senior finance
professionals, finance technology
experts, and data & analytics
specialists who bring vast experience
gained in their careers with leading
global financial institutions. Together,
they develop solutions for Finance
Transformation, Business Intelligence
&Data Warehousing, Finance Control
&Risk Management, Balance Sheet
&Capital Management, Finance
Technology & Systems and Investor
Relations for financial institutions.
These services are widely availed
by the commercial banks, private
banks, asset management firms
and investment banks.“To help
achieve effective transformation
in finance function and help CFOs
in their strategic initiatives, our
bespoke approach leverages best
practices and customizes them to
develop and deliver solutions that
will work for their organizations,”
says Sanjay Uppal, Founder &
CEO, StraitsBridge Advisors.
CFOs, in the past, had to confront
several critical needs in terms of
finance operations, and at times they
even expected to take up various roles
within the organization pertaining
to internal control, efficiency,
performance measurement and
strategy. StraitsBridge brings first
hand help for CFOs to deal with these
issues. It offers a comprehensive
finance transformation strategy,
which helps addressing these
challenges by visualizing and
shaping the future state of
finance.“We assist our clients in
addressing these challenges through
our bespoke delivery models and
methodologies that deliver superior
solutions. Our approach seamlessly
brings together our knowledge
of financial services industry,
technology and data & analytics to
achieve desired objectives for our
clients,” says Shripad Keni, Head
- Business Intelligence & Finance
Systems, StraitsBridge Advisors.
StraitsBridge delivers end-to-end
solutions that help CFOs to maintain
a unique approach and numerous
comprehensive methodologies
while creating highly important
business strategies. It has developed
delivery models and methodologies
that combined with its multi-skilled
teams have enabled it to reach out
to businesses across Asia, Middle
East and Africa. The ultimate goal
of the company is ‘to be a leading
independent advisor to CFOs’ in
the financial services sector. It aims
to deliver innovative solutions,
successful outcomes and build
sustainable value for its clients.
Sanjay adds, “In the coming years,
we see Straits Bridge becoming a
leading advisory firm, providing
specialist and bespoke services
across the CFO domain in financial
services.” Going forward, the
company will also focus on providing
advisory solutions to technology
firms in financial services.
StraitsBridge Advisors:
Bridging the Gap between Advisory and Execution
Support to Aid CFOs
Sanjay Uppal,
Founder & CEO
BUSINESS
INTELLIGENCE
25 MOST PROMISING
SOLUTION PROVIDERS - 2016