Successful businesses in today’s uneasy economic situation heavily rely on the quality of decision-making. The consequences of wrong decisions that could be relatively easily absorbed by corporate financial buffers in the recent past may appear lethal for today’s unprotected enterprises with dwindling assets. Therefore, every change - no matter how insignificant it may initially seem - should be analyzed, validated and implemented in full confidence that it will not damage the company’s financial status and will not undermine its hard-won reputation. However, quality is not the sole determinant of efficient decision-making. Competition also dictates its rules and makes business agility and speed of reaction vital elements of the company’s development strategy. All of this requires thorough knowledge of the internal and external environments of the company, peculiarities of the cash flow, dynamics of the client base, sales trends and many more parameters. This information should be readily available to every decision-maker in the company – from a department manager to the CEO – and should allow them to base their decisions on valid up-to-date data. If you have been looking for a way to drastically reduce paperwork, decrease communication lags and boost the efficiency of the company’s report-generation process, you should consider adding Microsoft Business Intelligence and Reporting tools to your standard corporate toolkit.

Business Intelligence (BI) tools is a comprehensive set of applications facilitating the aggregation of various data, their processing and delivery to end users. It is also a business platform covering virtually every aspect of corporate decision-making on every level and providing current, historical and predictive views of the company’s business operations. Among other BI functions - such as data mining, OLAP, business performance management and benchmarking - reporting and analysis assume a special position, as they are the most demanded and frequently used component of the platform. Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services create a solid foundation for all of your business data and various types of reporting services. Thanks to the Unified Dimensional Model underlying this technology, definitions of business entities, unified metrics, calculations and business logic schemes are stored centrally and are accessible from any location. The high abstraction level of this model enables users to obtain an all-inclusive picture of the business operations from any source, in any form and even language, thanks to the built-in automatic translation feature. Analysis Services offer an unprecedented level of scalability, functionality, productivity and manageability for users in highly distributed corporate environments. Yet another part of Microsoft’s family of Business Intelligence tools, Reporting Services, takes reporting on a totally new level and provides an ultimate set of reporting capabilities for your employees. Reporting Services facilitate the complex task of seamless real-time communication with clients, contractors and suppliers by transforming valuable enterprise data into shared information. The integrated advanced report authoring tools enable you to give each user an opportunity to create detailed personalized reports and deliver them across the whole enterprise infrastructure using a number of methods – on-demand delivery, event-based distribution and direct embedding into various business applications. Supporting traditional paper-based reports and interactive web-based presentations, this part of the BI framework accommodates every conceivable reporting need and provides a way to address each group of corporate stakeholders in a unique way. If you would like to create custom reports or integrate a third-party application with BI tools, you can use Crystal Reports, a powerful application that allows you to design and generate reports using various data sources in your enterprise infrastructure. Crystal Reports are a standard reporting tool used in Microsoft Visual Studio and is extremely popular among developers of business applications worldwide.

If you feel that your company requires a more organized approach to data collection, analysis and distribution or would like to perform a complete overhaul of your current report generation and data analysis processes, you came to the right people. Our team of certified Business Intelligence experts will discuss every aspect of your current business with you or your managers to identify the weakest links and bottleneck and will offer the most efficient options for your consideration. Deployment of the Business Intelligence infrastructure, its proper configuration, customization and employee training are just a few steps toward a more efficient, better selling and easier-to-manage company - and we will not leave you for a second on your way to this goal. Give us a call or contact our sales team to schedule one. Together, we will make your business work better!