When asked, most corporate leaders would answer the question of what is your company’s greatest asset as “our people”. Studies show that second on the list is data; yet very few companies effectively use data to fully compete in the market place. When considering data as an asset most companies try to leverage data so their people can make intelligent decisions. The progression of decision support usually starts with operational reporting leveraging tools such as reporting services or crystal reports. In this scenario data is gathered from a single source to answer questions of what shipped, sales amounts, and allows drill down to the item level. The difficulty lies in the reality that the data needed for reporting is spread across multiple data sources and must be individually extracted then integrated using Excel. This process creates a number of challenges relating to data quality, security and versioning.

Business Intelligence represents the next level of true integrated reporting capability. It is a two step process that starts with the implementation of a “single source of truth” (commonly referred to as a data warehouse, which can be created on a low cost incremental basis) and ends with a web-based, intuitive, user interface that allows a manager to answer questions such as:

• What products are profitable?
• Who are our highest margin customers?
• Which vendors are performing best for us? Etc...

The goal of business intelligence is to integrate and convert data into information that can be used by managers to make timely, fact based decisions and our solutions provides versatile reporting that is low cost but can scale across the enterprise.

Industry Solutions:

• Food Processing and Manufacturing