Microsoft BI Solutions

Date:
26 Aug 2011

Rated by Gartner Group in 2011 as a leader in the Business Intelligence Magic Quadrant, Microsoft Business Intelligence can provide your people with the tools they need for timely and accurate analysis of business performance. In turn your business will benefit from increased effectiveness, improved outcomes, and a lower total cost of ownership. You can build on your existing infrastructure with familiar, interoperable BI products like Excel, SharePoint 2010, and SQL Server. Users companywide and countrywide can easily collaborate and access the information they need to make better decisions.

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Microsoft Business Intelligence Overview

Align your Business Intelligence solution with the business drivers and performance measures in your organisation.

Whether at a strategic, tactical or operation level, Microsoft offers tools and technologies in SharePoint Server and the SQL Server platform to unlock vital information from the vast amounts of data accumulating in your organisation.

Koorb's team of BI experts that has a proven track record with the Microsoft BI stack.

Dashboards and Scorecards

Unlocking the management information in a vast amount of transactional, process-centric data has not always been easy!

Microsoft BI solutions allow data in disparate systems to be combined into dashboards and scorecards to aid strategic planning and performance management. Deployment via SharePoint Server provides browser-based access to information that would otherwise be locked away in ERP and other lines of business systems. Data exploration features allow users to analyse performance measures to establish the root cause.

Collaboration

Do your employees spend too much time looking for the information they need to perform effectively in their roles?

Through SharePoint Server, employees can more easily share information with each other. Whether it be structured, such as in reports and spread sheets, or unstructured, such as in documents and in presentations, information is centrally managed and may be highly categorised and easily searched.

Self-Service

Traditionally, self-service reporting has been fraught with difficulties. Not only have report writers been asked to learn specialist reporting tools, they have been expected to master the esoteric reporting structures in the underlying databases of ERP, CRM and other systems. This has lead to data integrity issues (different report writers getting different results based on their interpretation of the data), and a high dependency on IT.

Microsoft BI solutions allow information workers to use familiar tools, such as Excel and Report Builder, to pull together and analyse data for their own needs. Data integrity issues are greatly reduced as the tools provide "drag and drop" report design over simplified but robust and highly scalable information repositories.

Electronic Forms and Workflow

Would you like better management of your business forms, such as Leave and Expense Forms, or New Product Development?

The traditional approach to email or paper-based forms is time consuming and leads to a lack of visibility in the organisation. SharePoint Server provides electronic forms management, providing high visibility and streamlined processing. This may include automatic workflow routing and integration back into ERP, CRM and other line of business applications.

Analytics

Having better understood how your organisation is performing, would you like to have more insight into why?

Microsoft BI solutions allow you to use familiar tools, such as Excel and SharePoint Server, to dig deeper into sales, inventory, financial and other information to better understand why your business is performing the way it is. Data mining tools allow this to be extended to look for hidden trends and to predict future outcomes.

Reporting

Would you like to provide better access to information from ERP, CRM and other line of business applications?

SQL Server Reporting Services is Microsoft's market-leading reporting solution, offering intuitive ad-hoc reporting for business users and a powerful report writing environment for IT professionals and developers. Flexible deployment options mean that the same report may be run on an ad-hoc basis, or automatically delivered in a variety of formats to a variety of destinations, including email, traditional file shares and SharePoint Server.

Data Integration and Data Warehousing

Do you need to combine information from a number of disparate systems to gain better insight into organisation?

Data warehousing solutions can bring data together from virtually any source, providing an integrated, optimised reporting repository. Microsoft data warehousing solutions on the SQL Server platform offer highly scalable, performance and availability.

Antony Zigliani
Microsoft Business Intelligence & SharePoint Manager
Mob:
+64 21 330 083
E:
azigliani@koorb.co.nz
Antony Zigliani