Business Intelligence

As we’re acutely aware business today is conducted at an incredible pace in terms of meeting customers expectations. The reality is there is very little if any real flexibility given by market conditions to respond to its requirements and expectations.

Today more than ever speed and quality need to be key sustainable differentiators for all businesses no matter how big or small. To address this requirement, organisations are slowly but surely providing the capabilities to all employees and partners to have access to real time data to make better business decisions. The provision to get it consistently right is mandatory due to the fact that uninformed busines decisions can obviously result in real and substantial negative outcomes.

	MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FASTER 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. Business intelligence solutions can help you answers questions such as: How can we improve revenues? What characteristics do our most profitable customers share? How can we serve our customers better? Where are we spending money and seeing the best returns? Today, Microsoft is making business intelligence easier and more accessible to organizations of all sizes, across all industries and market segments. The Microsoft platform for business intelligence provides flexible, end-to-end solutions that help you to transform data into knowledge, knowledge into action, and action into success. Data is everywhere in the enterprise, and its sheer volume is becoming overwhelming. Yet data alone cannot give you a competitive edge. Only by unlocking the knowledge hidden within can you use data to gain insight into your customers, your markets, and even your own business performance. Doing so requires sophisticated technology-business intelligence solutions. These help you: Aggregate data from numerous sources. Build and manage an enterprise data warehouse. Make sophisticated yet simple analysis tools available to all employees. To derive the maximum value from business intelligence solutions, you need technology that can perform these functions in real time and enable decision-makers at every level of your organization to analyze and act on the information.
	THE MICROSOFT BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE PLATFORM The Microsoft platform for business intelligence provides flexible, end-to-end solutions you can use to turn information into action. The integrated platform includes: Microsoft .NET Servers and custom solutions for e-commerce and enterprise systems. Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 and SQL Server Analysis Services for data management and analysis. Microsoft Office XP applications and technologies for analysis and reporting functionality. Third-party partner solutions built on the Microsoft platform.
	THE MICROSOFT PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE To address this key business requirement, Microsoft has extended its database technology by providing business insight reporting services as an core extension of this capability.As acknowledged, the ability for organisations and individuals to quickly and efficiently access information is paramount as a sustainable competitive business advantage. Microsoft’s reporting services offers for the very first time the real prospect to all customers who need to be able to address aggressive market and customer expectations the capability to do at an investment level that is now affordable. As a Gold certified Microsoft business partner, IDEAS has substantial experience in understanding and delivering capabilities to address customers real requirements as determined by their industry and market conditions. Note that our current customers in which we’re delievered business insight capabilities include Coca Cola South Pacific and Blake Dawson Waldron.
	IDEAS EXPERIENCE As a Microsoft Gold Partner in Integrated E-Business Solutions, IDEAS has considerable experience and training in deploying Business Intelligence solution in a variety of environments. IDEAS BI Services include: Analysis of your business requirements Documentation Design of BI architecture Data Management strategy Data Warehouse architecture ETL analysis and development Database development Custom integration around data access OLAP design and delivery Training for administrators and users IDEAS has successfully delivered BI solutions Coca-Cola, Clayton Utz and Kellogg Australia.