Business Intelligence
Business decisions are only as good as the information on which they are based. A good Business Intelligence initiative should support making better business decisions to gain a competitive edge and improve sales and services. The challenge in achieving this goal is the overwhelming amount of data that is available. How do you use this data to your advantage? Are your current strategies and techniques for utilizing your firms’ knowledge capital helping or hindering your productivity?
At Sorbix, we offer a thorough and integrated suite of Business Intelligence consulting and development services that turn this vast amount of data into insight which results in improved productivity and sales. Our solutions are platform independent and vendor neutral. Whether your organization is just getting started in Business Intelligence, expanding your capabilities, or re-aligning your efforts to address new business situations, Sorbix can assist you in producing Business Intelligence capabilities that address your situation, and leverage your current capabilities. Sorbix has expertise in a wide variety of BI technologies, which allows us to offer a vendor-neutral solution to meet your specific business needs.
Business Intelligence often uses a variety of tools and resources to build a methodology for educated and successful business decisions, such as:
- Data Warehousing – An enterprise data warehouse is a centralized data store that encompasses and aggregates many data sources within one single arena. The purpose of an enterprise data warehouse effort is to collect data from disparate data sources that have been transformed, cleansed and reformatted for consolidating corporate information across a wide range of subject areas.
- ETL Processing – Data warehouse projects use ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) processes to move and manipulate data from Operational Data Stores to warehouse data marts for presentation. Because most organizations have numerous IT systems that serve different subject areas of the business, it is vitally important to develop a common, repeatable process for aggregating and assimilating large volumes of data from disparate systems. This process for ETL aggregation of data is a crucial piece of a successful data warehouse implementation.
- Business Intelligence Reporting – Many organizations have redundant reporting tools that retrieve key performance indicators (KPIs) from different enterprise data stores and stove-pipe applications. Often, the technological disparity at the database and reporting tools layers leads to discrepancy of enterprise level information reporting — different systems and reports yield inconsistent results based on duplicative and/or contradictory data and business-rule algorithms across systems. In order for the ‘corporate memory’ to be trusted, a clean and well organized BI strategy must be employed to centralize information and provide useable metrics to define and measure progress toward organizational goals.
Our Business Intelligence capabilities include:
- Enterprise Information Strategy
- Data Warehouse Readiness Assessment
- Data Warehouse Architecture / Design
- Information / Business Analysis
- Data Modeling
- Data Cleansing
- Data Integration / ETL architecture and implementation
- Database Management
- Business Reporting & Analytics
For More Information
If you would like to talk to one of our Business Intelligence Practice experts, or if you would like us to send you one of our Business Intelligence case studies, contact us at info@sorbix.com.