Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) offers businesses the abiltiy to use the investments they have already made while improving performance. Among other technology trends, BI is a front-runner on list of top technology interests on CIOs minds. The Business Intelligence technology trend will continue to grow as businesses discover the power of BI on strategic, tactical, and operational improvement. Oracle Business Intelligence also offers solutions that provide organizations with the tools to manage business processes and integrate with financial data.
 The most important element to business intelligence technology is the ability to get to the right information at the right time and in the right format. Businesses spend time planning and organizing business models to make sure they are headed down the fast road to success. But just like a car sitting waiting for a train to cross the tracks before it can proceed, businesses cannot know how long it can take them to get to where they need to go—how long as the train and what if it stops? Take a business situation with a similar issue: A company wants to grow and justify spending on a new project that could potentially bring in new customers, but they first need to find out what patterns in the past justify this project and make it viable to proceed? The solution would need to be flexible, scalable, and allow for fast access to quality data. With Microsoft business intelligence and IT Strategists custom BI solutions, get to the bottom of data mining and discover the high ROI that comes from a BI project with IT Strategists and Microsoft technologies. With the flexibility and horsepower of Microsoft SQL Server coupled with the familiar suite of Microsoft interfaces (Excel, Word, SharePoint), it is possible to get the most out of a BI project through data warehousing that is fast to build, easy to maintain, and simple to use. Microsoft business intelligence is a solution is delivered through a familiar interface that is scalable and flexible to the needs of organizations of all sizes. The Microsoft SQL Server data storage and management platform allows businesses to process and covert quality data and improve the measurement of many possible dimensions into knowledge and discovery that can lead to opportunities and sales. But how does BI improve measurement? Multiple possible architectures exist, which can vary based on the environments and situation of each business industry. Through the Microsoft data storage and management solution, businesses can access timely information that can help a business to drive forward and get to where they want to be. Improve business through: - Data Warehousing – Flexible, scalable, and fast.
- OLAP – Get the solutions you need through online analytical processing. Discover solutions to budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
- Data Quality – Right information at the right time in the right format can lead to faster decision making.
- Data Mining – Verified and validated patterns can help a business automate and convert data into knowledge and discovery that can lead to high ROI.
Microsoft business intelligence offers comprehensive and scalable solutions that can help businesses of all sizes set achievable goals that can drive business to success. Microsoft BI is able to cut costs and help organizations get to the right information at the right time and in the right format. Gates Corporation is an example of Business intelligence bosting revenue and providing operational value. Gates Corporation | Company Profile: The Denver, Colorado-based manufacturing company is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of industrial and automotive belts, hoses and posts, with annual sales of $1.4 billion. Gates Corporation wanted their enterprise to run more efficiently and needed a monitoring system that could provide comprehensive reporting data on its 400 business-critical servers. What did Microsoft BI do for them?: In addition to improved productivity, Microsoft BI solutions boosted their annual revenue by more than $10 million dollars by a company estimate. Download a PDF of the Case Study. (Requires Adobe PDF Reader) - Gates migrated to Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007. They installed the Beta 3 version of System Center Operations Manager 2007 on 10 various servers that ran different programs, including the Active Directory® service in Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Internet Information Services.
- They can now "configure server reports to show downtime warnings, downtime events, and the start time and end time of every occurrence" and "quickly learn why a server experienced downtime—whether it was a power outage, a hardware or software malfunction, or a server maintenance issue." -- Paul Johnson, Windows Monitoring Architect & Systems Engineer, Gates Corporation.
- Gates estimates that it will improve manufacturing productivity by 10 percent, boosting annual revenue by more than $10 million.
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