Business Intelligence Services

In order to succeed businesses must have high-quality information readily available for intelligent decision making. Business Intelligence provides clear insight into the way your company performs. It enables visibility to the reasons why things are they way they are. Plus it can enable visibility into what the future has to offer. Business Intelligence often, but not always, uses a Data Warehouse as its source of information. BI can also use data from a data mart, operational data store, transaction processing systems or third-party content providers.

SD3 consultants have worked with a number of Business Intelligence technologies including:

• Business Objects
• Cognos
• Hyperion Essbase
• Custom browser-based screens (Java, .NET, PHP)
• Mobile Business Intelligence
• DB2/UDB Oracle
• Microsoft SQL Server, Reporting Services (SSRS) and Analysis Services (SSAS)
• Greenplum
• Teradata

SD3 can assist your organization with their Business Intelligence needs. SD3 can:

• Plan your BI Strategy
• Create the Enterprise BI Architecture
• Select supporting BI tools
• Install, configure and administer the entire BI tool and data storage environment
• Document BI requirements
• Identify Key Performance Indicators and scorecards
• Create predictive business and forecasting models
• Design and develop BI applications including:
• Multi-dimensional OLAP cubes
• Visual interfaces such as reports, web pages (with drill-down capability), dashboards, charts and graphs
• Process event-based applications
• Forecasting applications

Spend your time using information quickly to make the right decisions instead of spending your time gathering data, piecing it together, and then questioning its validity.

This will lead to improvements across your organization and improvements to your competitive edge.

Contact SD3 to schedule a complementary BI strategy and planning session.