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Business Intelligence

Today's business environment requires a responsiveness that can only be achieved with timely and accurate insight into business conditions. To be successful, businesses need rapid, easy access to information about their customers, internal finances, and external market conditions—collectively known as business intelligence (BI). With BI, you’ll be able to assess the health of your business, control costs, identify your most profitable customers and product lines, and respond faster to customer demands and shifts in the market.

A Business Intelligence platform provides the building blocks for flexible solutions that can be tailored to the unique needs of your company. Familiar, easy-to-use analysis and reporting tools enable everyone in your organization to connect, analyze, and report on business data, so you can be sure your solution delivers the right information to the right people at the right time.

Through the use of data visualization, organizations become more efficient since less time is spent gathering and interpreting raw numbers, leaving more time to analyze and act upon the data; resulting in better business decisions.

Proven, world-class technologies help you integrate your Business Intelligence tools with your existing computing environment. You can quickly deploy a cost-effective, custom solution that gives you more value from the systems and technology you already have in place.

What is Business Intelligence?

Platform that makes the right information available to the right decision makers at the right time
Provides the ability to access enterprise-wide data for better decision making
Effective way to consolidate data from various systems into a single view
Provides answers to employees to make decision making quicker and easier
Provides reporting and data analysis in a multi-dimensional fashion
Allows employees to spend more time analyzing and acting on data, rather than gathering and interpreting raw numbers
Provides a means of solving the problem of gathering data from disparate systems

What are your needs?

Every industry faces unique business challenges. But all industries - from banking and manufacturing to higher education and public sector - need to effectively leverage their information assets in order to increase performance efficiency, improve key processes, and gain a competitive edge.

No matter what your needs, our business intelligence and integration solutions offer the scalability, flexibility and robust feature sets to meet them. We help you increase agility and responsiveness by empowering you to integrate all your enterprise information, no matter where it resides, and deliver it to anyone, anytime, anywhere, in any format.

What are your needs?

To retain and expand your client base, improve cross-selling opportunities, and increase customer profitability through a better understanding of behavior, needs, and preferences?
Improve tracking of services and product lines?
Combine data from a variety of sources to more accurately conduct market forecasting and system planning?
Analyze the effectiveness of marketing initiatives?
Manage call center activity and increase response time to customer inquiries?
Improve your budgeting process from the field level up?
Monitor cost performance of all facilities and plants?
Track quality issues from the point of origin (customer complaint or warranty claim) to their initial source, so the root cause can be identified and resolved
Manage the supply chain to increase profits and market share, provide a stronger competitive position, and enhance company value
Keep inventory costs at a minimum, while ensuring that enough stock is on hand to prevent severe negative consequences to either production operations or customer order fulfillment

Common Issues

Data Rich, information poor systems

With investments in newer and legacy applications, organizations are data rich

Getting information out is usually single reports from various systems with various perspectives

Interpretation of such data is hard since reports are usually two dimensional

Getting reports out in a multi-dimensional manner is not possible

The Enterprise Challenge - Event to knowledge period

In a business environment, information users require on-demand reports on events

Statistics shows that it takes a long time for decision makers to see a report or the effect of an event

Monthly financial reports are examples. By the time the report is reviewed, action can no longer be taken

Benefits of a BI solution

Increased productivity
Empowers decision makers
Improves event to knowledge period
Solves the “data rich, information poor” problem
Helps users view the enterprise in various dimensions
Minimizes the need for enterprise application integration
Leverages existing infrastructure of hardware and software - using MS SQL Server’s analysis services or Microsoft Office pivot-tables
Controlled access to statistical data for example, a VP of Sales will see performances of all sales reps in the field, while a sales rep will see details of his sales by customer.
Using your existing data formats—any ODBC compliant database
Dynamic graphs, charts, and tables
Access information via a powerful web interface
Integration with a portal solution for on-demand viewing

Conclusion

For your business to succeed in today’s highly competitive market, you need reliable access to high-quality business intelligence (BI). Making fast, accurate, and effective decisions is vital for on-going business success. Gaining access to the data and technology that deliver these capabilities requires detailed planning, delivery, education, and support.