Make Data Accessible and Valuable with Business Intelligence
Overview
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Challenge
The sheer volume of data within the organization can be overwhelming. Yet data alone cannot give you a competitive edge. Only by unlocking the hidden knowledge can you use data to gain insight into customers, markets, and even your own business performance.
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 finances, customers, and external market conditions.
Solution
The measure of any business intelligence solution is its ability to derive knowledge from data. The challenge is met with the ability to identify patterns, trends, rules, and relationships from volumes of information too large to be processed by human analysis alone. Microsoft Business Intelligence provides flexible, end-to-end solutions that help you transform data into knowledge, knowledge into action, and action into success.
Microsoft Business Intelligence involves the following components:
Technologies | | • | Data Analysis: Use integrated, high performance data analysis tools to perform calculations and analysis against huge stores of information.
| | • | Data Visualization: Spot trends, make comparisons, and find hidden connections among business dimensions.
| | • | Geospatial Analysis: Access social, economic, population, and other statistics that define markets.
| | • | Financial Analytics: From accounting to sales and purchasing activity and more, not only can you track information efficiently through industry-leading applications, but you can then analyze key information and drive smarter decisions via easy-to-use financial reporting, budgeting and analytical tools.
| | • | Fully interactive, Web deployment: Use the Web to make data and tools available to employees, vendors, and suppliers.
| | • | Clickstream Analytics: Provide storage capability and analytical tools designed specifically for the rich data produced by your e-commerce site.
| | • | Sales and Marketing Analytics: Focus on the products that bring the greatest ROI.
| | • | Retail Analytics: Enable retailers to analyze and react to sales trends and customer needs more quickly.
| | • | Project Management Analysis: Ensure that project performance stays in step with strategic goals and initiatives.
| | • | Collaborative Analysis and Decision-Making: Provide a focal point for collaboration with a custom portal.
| | • | Balanced Scorecard Analysis: Monitor critical business strategy-oriented metrics.
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Best Practices | | • | Design, development, and implementation strategies and services
| | • | Enterprise application integration services
| | • | Enterprise performance management (EPM) and scorecard solutions
| | • | Retail channel optimization services
| | • | Integrated and tested hardware and software
| | • | Personalized information views and data analysis capabilities
| | • | Training
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Benefits
Reduce costs by:
| • | Using analysis tools that are already familiar to your employees, thereby eliminating the cost of retraining or outsourcing.
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| • | Using tools that are integrated, quick to implement, easy to refine, and that provide end-to-end analysis solutions.
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| • | Extending the value of your existing systems.
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Increase productivity by:
| • | Using tools that are already familiar to your employees, and putting accurate information into the appropriate hands in a format your employees can best understand.
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| • | Making information quickly accessible across your organization.
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Increase customer satisfaction by:
| • | Getting a more complete picture of your customers and markets so you can custom-tailor services and campaigns, and realize more effective business planning.
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| • | Making information immediately accessible across your organization so that employees can respond rapidly to the changing needs of customers and partners.
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| • | Offering highly personalized, relevant content to your site users; thereby converting browsers into buyers.
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