Q3 technologies: Business Intelligence Services

Business intelligence is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

Business Intelligence becomes effective when it provides insight and helps you predict outcomes. Business Intelligence helps you track your mistakes, control your present and forecast future results based on your business decisions. Business Intelligence gives the maximum benefit to customers in terms of cost savings, improved quality, access to highly talented professionals, flexibility of operations and reduced time to market. Business intelligence services are driven towards customer’s current and future needs in mind, providing feature-rich solutions that are built on standard technologies. BI services have helped customers and partners increase productivity and efficiency by transforming data into actionable information.

 

Business Intelligence solutions can:

• Reduce total cost of managing and delivering information 

• Support self-service access to information for employees, partners and clients 

• Promote collaboration/workflow 

• Automate legacy processes 

• Reduce cost of business operations 

Some of Business Intelligence Services are:

Reporting - Reporting gives you access to a complete list of report types. With the reporting capability, you can personalize the style and quality of Business Intelligence delivered to your key stakeholders; and you expand the community of business intelligence users.

Analysis – The analysis solution in BI enables the guided exploration of information that pertains to all dimensions of your business, regardless of where the data is stored. Analyze and report against online analytical processing (OLAP) and dimensionally aware relational sources. With the analysis capability, you can personalize the style and quality of business intelligence delivered to the client. OLAP tools such as Hyperion are geared towards slicing and dicing of the data. As such, they require a strong metadata layer, as well as front-end flexibility.

Dashboards - Business dashboards communicate complex information quickly. They translate information from your various corporate systems and data into visually rich presentations using gauges, maps, charts, and other graphical elements to show multiple results together. Dashboards — operational, tactical, and strategic — help you monitor, measure, and manage corporate performance.