BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS
Today it is easier than ever to access information, and with the proliferation of connected systems, there is more data than ever to manage and understand. What about the quality of that data? PointBridge’s Business Intelligence practice will enable your organization to establish a single, consistent version of the truth that can support effective decisions from the mailroom to the boardroom.
Business Process Modeling
A single, consistent and quality-assured data warehouse is the backbone of any organization’s analytics. The framing of the business intelligence opportunity at your organization is vital to determining the best path for planning out of your business intelligence solution. We employ industry best practices, such as the Kimball Methodology, and draw on significant dimensional modeling experience to create the data mart or data warehouse design that will both meet your current requirements and allow your organization to grow and add capabilities. PointBridge uses the Microsoft SQL Server database engine for data mart and data warehouse design.
Data Migration
The wide variety of systems that can provide electronic records of business activities make an effective Extraction, Transformation, and Load (ETL) strategy essential in order to get all of the information cleansed, enhanced, quality-assured, and residing in a single repository. Leveraging SQL Server Integration Services and Data Transformation Services, PointBridge is able to achieve a high level of data quality.
Consolidated Business Performance Metrics
PointBridge uses the Unified Dimensional Model (UDM) to create a single data source that consolidates and makes your business metrics available within the organization. The UDM makes it possible to use analytics not only to report what has happened, but also to use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to define what should happen. The UDM in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services provides robust role-based security, superior performance through pre-cached aggregations, and complex business metrics using Multidimensional Expressions (MDX).
Presentation
Aligning the presentation layer of the data with the needs of the business stakeholders and your organization’s business drivers will ensure the data is well-understood and actionable. From rich visualization tools, to performance management dashboards, formatted reports, or snapshots distributed to your mobile workforce’s PDAs, PointBridge uses Performance Point Server, SQL Server Reporting Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, and Excel Services to ensure that the right people have the right information at hand. PointBridge also offers the SharePoint 2007 Business Intelligence Accelerator to help clients quickly realize the benefits of effective visualization.
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