ENTERPRISE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Business Intelligence (BI) takes the volume of data your organization collects and stores, and turns it into meaningful information that people can easily use. With this information in accessible reports, people can make better and timelier business decisions in their everyday activities.
BI Source delivers all of the BI capabilities organizations require to turn their data into knowledge. The greatest value for both IT and business users is that as information needs evolve, organizations can easily expand their use of business intelligence with one vendor. IT doesn't have to worry about integration issues, and users don't have to learn new systems.
All reporting and analysis capabilities are accessible from one portal. Users can select reports, customize them, analyze information, and share information with the same facility as using the Web.
ENTERPRISE DASHBOARDS AND SCOREBOARDS
Managers need to know which activities and decisions are most important to the company, and how well they and the organization are performing in those important areas. Dashboards and scorecards communicate your key business metrics, measure your progress against them, and help determine what actions you need to take.
BI Source dashboards and scorecards deliver the immediate, at-a-glance understanding of where things stand that is the heart of performance monitoring. Both can associate multiple indicators into a single metric. Both are highly engaging, visual presentations of complex data. You can drill through a dashboard or scorecard indicator to analyze the reports that provide more detail about the metric.
Dashboards and Scorecards Using Cognos Toolset
Dashboards and Scorecards Using MicroStrategy Toolset
CORPORATE PERFORMANCE MANGEMENT
Business management expert Peter Drucker said there is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well. Why does this happen? Because people don't understand the company plan or don't have visibility into how the business is performing. It happens because people are not accountable for their part of the strategy, or can't rely on their information to make good decisions.
Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solves these problems in the way it aligns execution with strategy — across your organization.
THE VALUE OF ALIGNMENT
Does communicating strategy across the organization deliver real value? After all, most people don't touch strategy. Robert Kaplan, one of the co-founders of the Balanced Scorecard, tells a story about a large American petrochemical company. The company had started communicating with all employees about performance goals.
They saw the value when the people driving the oil trucks started to call.
The truckers phoned in to say they had just delivered fuel to a gas station and the bathrooms were a mess. Not only that, lights in the company sign had burned out. Worse, staff was not serving customers properly.
The same truckers had been delivering gas to the same stations for years. What was different?
The truckers now knew that the company's strategy hinged on exceptional customer service and customer care. The gas station in question wasn't delivering it. The truckers understood it was part of their responsibility to point out where strategy and action didn't line up.
THE THREE MAIN POINTS YOU NEED TO ADDRESS
Most of us would like work for — or run — a company where every employees take performance to heart. There are three main barriers in your way:
- Lack of Predictability. You are unable to drive the business forward because the plans that express your strategy are inflexible, unwieldy to create, and don't engage enough of the company. Poorly built plans can cause serious problems with shareholders because your performance targets are best-guess rather than predictable.
- Lack of Accountability. You are unable to distribute strategy effectively and get people to focus on doing the jobs that really matter. If customer profitability is the boardroom goal but you reward salespeople based simply on total revenue, your strategy and your execution are out of alignment. You haven't given sales people the performance metrics to be accountable.
- Lack of Visibility. You are unable to make the best decisions to put your strategy in action because you don't understand the 'Why' behind results. You have information resources, but they are not integrated, difficult to access for reporting, or your reporting is difficult to use or is not timely enough.
HOW BI SOURCE FITS IN
BI Source can help you address the lack of predictability, accountability, and visibility. Importantly, each technology interlinks with the others. You can start on the road to CPM supported by any BI Source capability, knowing we will deliver the other elements that work with it.
BI SOURCE & COGNOS
BI Source delivers unique, customer-centric, end-to-end Data Warehousing solutions using the Cognos toolset. Our methodology centers on understanding the customer's needs and leveraging various Business Intelligence (BI) tools to solve our clients' business problems.
BI SOURCE & MICROSTRATEGY
BI Source supplies our customers with business solutions using MicroStrategy's Business Intelligence platform. These solutions enable improved and more predictable business performance by putting actionable information into the hands of every business person in an enterprise.
BI SOURCE & ORACLE BI
BI Source utilizes the Oracle BI toolset to deliver intuitive intelligence to everyone inside your organization. By putting actionable information into the hands of business users, BI Source enables you to make better decisions every day.
BI SOURCE & ORACLE HYPERION
BI Source utilizes the Oracle Hyperion platform to put actionable information into the hands of every business person in your organization. By giving your knowledge workers important information about performance, we help them make better business decisions.
BI SOURCE & ORACLE SIEBEL CRM
BI Source utilizes the Oracle Siebel CRM platform to analyze customer data for a variety of purposes including designing & executing targeted marketing campaigns, analysing customer behavior in order to make better decisions relating to products & services, and management decisions such as financial forcasting & customer profitability.