Security personnel and solutions provider, the Cardinal Group, has acquired a majority stake in visible business intelligence (VBI) specialists, the Ministry of Ideas, as part of its strategy to expand its data management capabilities.
The acquisition will see the Ministry of Ideas’ VBI solutions working in conjunction with The Cardinal Group’s own business intelligence tools – ORIS Integrated Solutions – to ensure critical data is presented in an easy-to-interpret format.
Jason Trigg, CEO of the Cardinal Group, said: “We are delighted to have acquired the Ministry of Ideas. The company is extremely well respected in the field of VBI and its suite of solutions will perfectly complement our capabilities in this area.
“Adding the accessibility and usability of Ministry of Ideas’ VBI solutions to the analytical power of our own BI tools will enable us to deliver business critical intelligence to our customers’ desktops, tablets or smart phones when they need it and in a format that enables them to make quick and smart business decisions. We are increasingly seeing a shift towards store operations teams taking responsibility for loss prevention, so it is critical that as suppliers we not only deliver BI to central LP teams but are able to present meaningful, store specific data to field teams via a number of media.”