DATA WAREHOUSING & REPORTING

In an increasingly competitive corporate world, companies are facing significant challenges in ensuring that they stay ahead of their rivals and are facing increasing pressure to deliver more for less.

In order to address these challenges more progressive organisations are recognising that the data and information they collect is a key asset.  The ability to utilise and analyse this data provides the business with the intelligence it needs to enable both strategic and operational decisions to be made.

Waterstons have extensive experience in delivering complete Business Intelligence solutions predominantly utilising Microsoft’s suite of products;

SQL SERVER 2000/2005
Utilised as the backend database/data warehouse enabling the integration into one central repository of data currently residing in multiple systems, all lacking consistency.

DATA TRANSFORMATION SERVICES/SQL SERVER INTEGRATION SERVICES
Used to enable the building and managing of data warehouses by providing tools to extract, transform and load data from virtually any source system(s) into the data warehouse repository.

ANALYSIS SERVICES
An industry-leading ad hoc analysis engine—online analytical processing (OLAP)— that enables decision makers to explore data in ways that make sense to them but also to centrally define and manage organizational business logic like key performance indicators (KPIs).

PERFORMANCE POINT SERVER 2007 & PROCLARITY ANALYTICS
Performance Point Server 2007  is a powerful performance management application designed to help improve operational and financial performance by linking together people at all levels within an organisation to the overall corportate strategy.

ProClarity Analytics is the foundation for the analytic capabilities in Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 and enables users to identify trends, explore data, and pinpoint what is driving corporate performance.

REPORTING SERVICES
A comprehensive, enterprise reporting based solution that includes traditional managed reports, interactive reports, and embedded reports. Also includes a Report Builder tool that enables end users to create adoc reports with ease.