Have an enterprise-wide solution, but don't have BI?
Have an enterprise-wide solution but don't have BI?
If you don't have a BI solution you can reap the benefits of the Business Intelligence revolution with the tools which we specialise in.
Why do you need Business Intelligence?
Today's businesses have to be both flexible and agile. To ensure they survive and succeed they must respond very quickly to changing circumstances, good or bad. For that, they need tightly focussed, accurate and up to date information – but all too often, what they get is information overload.
Many organisations struggle to get accurate and insightful information about their own performance – even if they already have sophisticated transaction processing systems. All too often it's hard to find out what's really happening in the business, and how this relates to what's happening outside.
And that's precisely what Business Intelligence – BI – can deliver.
For many years major corporates have been using BI to join up information from different data sources and deliver enterprise-wide, up to the minute snapshots of exactly what's going on in every part of their operation. This simply isn't possible with traditional reporting. For example, it's difficult if not impossible to relate a product view of your sales to a customer view and a channel view – yet with BI you can do this quickly, easily, and accurately.
The benefits are clear. They can make better decisions, based on accurate and fully current information. And they can get a far truer picture of their customer and supplier relationships.
The results can bring a whole string of benefits to you including, for example:
• More productivity from your workers
• Lower training costs
• Better inventory management
• Lower customer care costs
• Lower administrative costs
• Better customer satisfaction
You owe it yourself, to learn more…
Product Areas
Azura Associates specialise in the following tools;
• ProClarity
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
• IntelligentApps
ProClarity
Managing an organization has neverbeen more complex. Businesses change moment to moment. Information piles up relentlessly. Opportunities appear and disappear overnight. Rules and regulations abound. Competition is beyond fierce. IT is overworked.
And you need answers. Now.
ProClarity combines the most powerful business intelligence platform in the industry—Microsoft SQL Server 2005—with the most simple user interface and the most adaptable design.
Because of that, business managers can access, manipulate and analyze the information they need, when they need it. Analysts can get better, more complete information, faster than ever. And IT can focus on what IT does best, instead of creating report after report after report.
ProClarity's query and analysis tools are easy for anyone to use—and powerful enough to move you quickly from seeing what is happening to clearly understanding why.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005
Microsoft SQL Server provides the basis for Business Intelligence. The 2000 version provided a universally accepted platform to support BI and deliver OLAP technology
SQL Server 2005 provides many new and enhanced business intelligence (BI) features designed to give you a competitive advantage. These advantages include integrating multiple data sources with Integration Services; enriching data and building complex business analytics with Analysis Services; and writing, managing, and delivering rich reports with Reporting Services. The following elements are designed to help you improve BI in your organization.
Integrate : Easily integrate data from a wide range of operational and enterprise data sources, and gain competitive advantage through a holistic view of your business.
Analyze : Gain an integrated view of all your business data as the foundation for your traditional reporting, OLAP analysis, scorecards, and data mining.
Report : Deliver the information employees need to make better business decisions—in virtually any business environment.
Data Mining : Explore data, discover patterns, and apply these patterns to business operations with an easy-to-use, extensible, accessible, and flexible platform.
Data Warehousing : Leverage enhancements in partitioning, manageability and query optimizations to streamline operations and increase performance.
IntelligentApps
IntelligentApps was already a popular and well-established product when Sage bought it in 2005, and well known as a serious BI tool. It's tried, it's tested, it can be delivered and installed quickly and easily.
Users of IntelligentApps can enjoy creating applications and reports with one of the most powerful, intuitive and cost-effective solutions on the market. It has the ability to deploy these applications to thousands via Excel, LAN/WAN and the Internet.
Why choose IntelligentApps?
- Low cost : deploy applications to hundreds or even thousands of users at a fraction of the cost of traditional alternatives.
- Flexible, robust and easy to use : your end users already know how to use a web browser and Excel – with IntelligentApps they can use them to produce financial reports, sales analysis, performance dashboards and data warehousing applications.
- Seamless integration with existing systems : IntelligentApps software is based on the market-leading, industry standard Microsoft BI platform of Office, SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services.
- Resilient, high-performance operation based on modern .NET architecture.,/li>
- Reliable and stable : IntelligentApps software is used in some of the largest enterprise accounts worldwide, and remains stable even when working on terabytes of information.
- Grows with your organisation : IntelligentApps is truly scalable in a WAN environment, essential for global deployments of Business Performance Management applications.
- Quick and easy to implement : IntelligentApps has a Business Partner model that offers vertically focused skill sets and proven knowledge of the underlying Microsoft and IntelligentApps platforms to cut implementation time to a minimum.
- Easier and quicker to use : with IntelligentApps it's quicker and easier to create financial dashboard and reporting applications than with any other solution – and to present the results as high-quality output up to desktop publishing standards.
- Accessible yet secure : with its Excel interface IntelligentApps couldn't be easier to use – but IT departments can rest assured that security levels, application locking and protection are all they could possibly wish for.
- An assured future : IntelligentApps is part of the Sage group, employing 8,000 employees worldwide. You can be confident Sage will continue to invest in the product and develop it, now and in the future.
Summary
The value of any business intelligence solution is in how quickly it helps you turn information into action.
Identify trends, explore data and pinpoint what's driving corporate performance—without spending endless hours digging through data.
Right now BI seems new and exciting – but it will soon become a core requirement for all businesses, large and small.
Contact us for more information and a demonstration