BRILLIANTINSIGHT
BrilliantInsight — Business Intelligence Suite
Connect your systems, model the numbers once, and give every level of the organisation the same trusted figure — on the desktop, on a mobile briefing, or embedded in your own application.
What BrilliantInsight is
BrilliantInsight is a business intelligence platform: connectors into your operational systems, scheduled extraction and transformation, a governed semantic layer where each measure is defined once, and self-service dashboards on top. It is bought by finance directors, chief operating officers, heads of strategy and public-sector permanent secretaries — anyone who has sat in a meeting where three departments produced three different revenue figures and the meeting became an argument about the numbers instead of a decision.
The problem is not a shortage of data. Nigerian organisations of any size have plenty: a core banking system, a payroll, a revenue platform, a hospital system, spreadsheets everywhere. The problem is that each report is assembled by a different analyst, from a different extract, using a different definition of the same word. When "active customer" means one thing in operations and another in finance, no dashboard will save you. BrilliantInsight fixes the definition in a semantic layer that every dashboard, export and application must go through, so the argument happens once, in writing, and then stops.
The suite is built on open, well-supported components — PostgreSQL and columnar storage, Apache Airflow for orchestration, dbt-style transformation models under version control — assembled and supported by our Data and AI practice, which is led by Dr. Yakubu Sale Karaye. We are not reselling a licence and disappearing: the models we build are readable, documented and yours, and your own analysts are trained to extend them.
For clients who cannot place their data in anyone else’s cloud — banks, revenue authorities, defence-adjacent agencies, hospitals — the entire suite deploys on-premises inside your own perimeter with no external dependency, and we manage it remotely under a support contract. Data residency is not a paid add-on in BrilliantInsight; it is a deployment choice you make at the start and can change later.
Functional modules
Nine components covering the path from source system to a figure someone will act on.
Connectors
Sources
Pre-built connectors for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, REST APIs, SFTP file drops, Excel and CSV, plus native links to BrilliantEd, BrilliantCare, BrilliantRevenue, BrilliantHR and BrilliantProcure.
ETL Scheduling
Pipelines
Orchestrated extraction and transformation with dependency graphs, automatic retries, incremental loads, data quality tests, freshness monitoring, and alerting to your team when a source fails or arrives late.
Semantic Layer
Governance
Define every measure and dimension once, under version control, with an owner and a written definition, so a figure means the same thing in every dashboard and export.
Self-Service Dashboards
Analysis
Drag-and-drop analysis for business users, always within governed measures, with drill-down, cross-filtering, saved and shared views, and scheduled distribution to a recipient list as PDF or Excel.
Executive Scorecards
Performance
Track a defined set of indicators against targets by period, department and location, with red-amber-green status, variance commentary fields and history retained for board reporting.
Mobile Briefings
On the move
A daily briefing card on Android and iOS showing the handful of figures a principal officer needs, sized for a poor connection and readable before the morning meeting.
Alerting
Exceptions
Threshold, variance and anomaly alerts pushed by e-mail, SMS or mobile notification, with suppression rules so a genuine exception is not lost in routine noise.
Row-Level Security
Access control
Restrict what each user sees by branch, department, region or cost centre from a single policy, so one dashboard serves the whole organisation without leaking across boundaries.
Embedded Analytics API
Integration
Embed governed charts and query results in your own web or mobile application through a documented REST API and signed embed tokens, inheriting the same security policy.
BrilliantInsight in numbers
48
Deployments live
Finance, government, health
11,400
Dashboard users
Across all clients
2.1bn
Rows processed nightly
Aggregate pipeline volume
99.95%
Platform uptime attainment
Managed services, FY2025
Editions and licensing
Licensing is annual and based on named users plus connected sources. On-premises deployment carries the same licence fee; only hosting is removed. Data volume is not metered.
| Edition | Named users | Connected sources | Annual licence | Implementation fee band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 15 | Up to 3 | ₦3,900,000 | ₦2,000,000 – ₦5,000,000 |
| Professional | Up to 100 | Up to 12 | ₦11,200,000 | ₦6,500,000 – ₦20,000,000 |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | Unlimited | ₦26,500,000 | ₦18,000,000 – ₦75,000,000 |
| Embedded / OEM | Not applicable — priced per application | Unlimited | From ₦14,000,000 | Quoted per integration |
On-premises when residency matters
A large share of our intelligence work is for organisations that cannot put a customer or taxpayer record into a foreign cloud — commercial and microfinance banks, state revenue services, teaching hospitals and agencies handling citizen data. For those clients the entire BrilliantInsight stack runs inside their own perimeter, on their own hardware, with no outbound dependency of any kind.
We size the servers, install and harden the stack, hand your team documented runbooks, and manage it remotely through a controlled access path that your security officer approves and can revoke. Nothing leaves your building, and the licence costs the same as the hosted service.
- Full stack on your hardware, no external calls required
- Air-gapped update path for high-security environments
- Remote management over a client-approved, revocable access route
- Same licence fee as the hosted service
- Transformation models in your own version-control system
- Runbooks and handover so you are never locked in
How we implement BrilliantInsight
We deliver in short cycles against a first subject area rather than attempting to model the whole organisation before anyone sees a chart. First useful dashboards typically land in four to six weeks.
Requirements workshop
Two to four days with the executive sponsor and each data owner. We agree the decisions the dashboards must support, the first subject area, and — critically — a written definition of every disputed measure.
Configuration
We stand up the platform, connect the first sources read-only, and build the initial semantic model with owners assigned to each measure. Nothing is defined in a dashboard that is not defined in the model.
Data migration
Historical data is loaded and reconciled against your existing reports. Where the new figure differs from the old one we investigate and document why, because that reconciliation is what earns the platform its credibility.
Integration
Pipelines are scheduled with freshness monitoring, row-level security policies are mapped to your directory groups, and embedded analytics endpoints are provisioned for any application that needs them.
Training
Analysts are trained to extend the semantic model and build dashboards; business users are trained on self-service; executives get a short session on their scorecard and mobile briefing. Trainees leave able to work unaided.
Pilot
One department runs on BrilliantInsight for a full reporting cycle alongside its existing spreadsheets, and formally signs off that the platform figure is the one it will defend.
Go-live
The platform becomes the reporting system of record for the subject areas delivered. Legacy report files are archived read-only, and further subject areas are added in subsequent cycles.
Hypercare
Sixty days of enhanced support with weekly model reviews, pipeline monitoring, tuning of slow queries, and a documented handover of the model repository and runbooks to your own analysts.
Questions buyers ask
Can we run BrilliantInsight entirely on our own infrastructure?
How is data residency and NDPA compliance handled?
Will the dashboards work over a slow connection?
What can it connect to?
What support and service levels apply?
Who owns the models, and what happens if we leave?
Is training included, and will our analysts be able to work unaided?
Data residency is a deployment choice, not an upsell
Where the law, your regulator or your own policy requires data to remain inside your building, BrilliantInsight deploys on-premises at the same licence fee as the hosted service. We will also complete your data-protection impact assessment with you and provide our ISO/IEC 27001:2022 statement of applicability for your compliance file. Write to [email protected].
Stop arguing about the numbers
Bring us one report that three departments disagree about. We will model it properly and show you a single governed figure, usually within two weeks.