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Akili Hires Arikan as VP to Lead Business Intelligence Practice

5/24/2010 12:57:37 PM

DALLAS, Texas (May 24, 2010) --

Akili, one of the fastest growing Dallas consulting firms in the enterprise performance management (EPM) and business intelligence (BI) segments, announced today the appointment of Tufan A. Arikan as Business Intelligence Practice vice president.  Arikan will foster the company’s growing success within the BI solutions market segment.  BI refers to the use of technology to collect and effectively use information to improve business performance.

Mr. Arikan has over 18 years of IT and consulting experience, with the last 13 years focused solely on BI and Data Warehousing.  He has extensive knowledge of BI best practices and leading data warehousing methodologies in the Information Management area.

“Akili’s growing BI practice will enrich and add depth to our already successful repertoire of EPM solutions,” said Shiek Shah, chief executive officer of Akili.  “EPM seeks to answer the question, “how are we doing?”.  BI seeks to answer the questions, “why?” and “what next?”.  EPM and BI solutions go hand in hand and adding Tufan to Akili’s team of advisory consultants will tremendously multiply the number of solutions we can provide to our clients to make critical decisions in real time.”

Mr. Arikan brings a wealth of experience to Akili’s team. He has played solution architect, program/project manager, and business analyst roles on his numerous and extensive project engagements. Mr. Arikan has firsthand experience with all leading BI tools and techniques including dashboards, scorecards, multi-dimensional ad-hoc analysis, predictive analytics and data mining solutions. His vendor experiences include SAP Business Objects, Microsoft, Oracle, Teradata and IBM. His various industry experience includes travel /leisure, telecommunications, airline/defense, oil/gas, and retail.

Prior to joining Akili, Mr. Arikan worked at Hitachi Consulting as the Southwest Market Data Warehouse Director working with clients including Kimberly Clark, Southwest Airlines, Chesapeake Energy, Pepsico/Frito-Lay and Northrop Grumman.  

Mr. Arikan received master degrees in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and Engineering Physics from Ankara University.  He also completed all but the dissertation for a dual Ph.D. in EE and Physics from UTD.  In addition, Mr. Arikan has completed further business training from MIT Sloan School of Business, Dale Carnegie, and Franklin Covey.

Mr. Arikan can be reached at tarikan@akili.com or 214.978.3248.

About Akili
Akili (pounced (uh • kē’ • lē) meaning “knowledge” in Swahili) is an enterprise performance management and business intelligence information management consulting firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.   Akili’s focus is to provide information management solutions that support the adaptive enterprise, enabling real time planning, forecasting, and budgeting systems that are powerful, intuitive and capable of seamlessly merging all dimensions of a large scale business enterprise.  Akili’s nearly 20 years of successful service to Fortune 1000 companies speaks to their expertise, client-focus, and results-oriented standards of excellence.

Whether the need relates to business intelligence, performance management, or budgeting and forecasting, Akili’s core belief is that information becomes actionable only when presented in its proper context. Akili helps leading organizations move rapidly toward a model where planning is continuous and where the focus is on agility and adaptability.  

Akili has been working with SAP as a BusinessObjects partner and services partner. Their shared goals center on implementing world class planning and performance management solutions for their clients from within the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio.  

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For more information on Akili’s solutions and services, please visit www.akili.com or contact Laura Claborn, sales executive, at 214.978.3202 or lclaborn@akili.com.

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