The PointBridge SharePoint 2007 Business Intelligence Accelerator is for organizations that want to act on important business information, not spend hours searching through and reconciling data.
The Business Intelligence Challenge
In today's business environment, business users typically require access to information housed in disparate systems. Manual collection processes, unwieldy queries, or a combination of both, consume precious time and reduce productivity. Instead of acting on the information, a significant portion of the day is wasted manually aggregating and analyzing the data. Getting information in an easy to use format is critical for effective decision-making processes, yet the daunting task of getting the data into this usable format presents challenges to:
• Integrating the "right" data from one or more data stores
• Presenting the "right" information specific to an enterprise
• Allowing meaningful business information to be the end result based on existing metadata
To be successful, a Microsoft® Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) enterprise business intelligence project requires a detailed plan and a thorough approach for delivering business data. This ensures that users can access an aggregated view of the right business data to provide access to the right information to empower data-driven decisions and insightful, fact-based actions.
The PointBridge Solution
The SharePoint 2007 Business Intelligence Accelerator helps you develop a strategy to fully utilize the business intelligence features offered in SharePoint 2007. Additionally, it establishes a planned approach for implementing that strategy. The PointBridge solution is a fixed-time, fixed-price engagement that produces five deliverables:
1. Current environment assessment
2. High-level Inventory of business intelligence systems and data stores
3. High-level design for a business intelligence proof of concept dashboard
4. Business intelligence approach and plan
5. Operational SharePoint 2007 business intelligence dashboard connecting one to two data stores and recommended next steps
The engagement typically spans four weeks and delivers an actionable path forward.