Business Intelligence Jumpstart

Why JumpStart?

• Decision effectiveness is based on the quality, relevance, and currency of decision maker data, which can be hard to assimilate. Our JumpStart program can help you organize and simplify the appropriate data for effective and efficient decision making

• JumpStart facilitates accessible, accurate, current, and reliable information that provides a level of detail appropriate to decision making

• Easily create, modify, store, and schedule reports in a variety of ways including via web portal or via automatic distribution to email

• Significantly reduce time required to collate and distribute data – with minimal investment

What We Deliver

• 3-day workshop to discuss current reporting and data mining enviroment

• Extract, transform, and load data from up to 4 information sources

• Analysis cube (set of related measures & dimensions for data analysis)

• Reporting services infrastructure, including up to 10 reports

• Ad-hoc analysis tool with integration for Miscrosoft Excel

• Web-enabled dashboard that provides select key performance indicators

• Half-day training for end-users; half-day training for ITdepartment

• Quick card to highlight major functions for end-users

• Components delivered in a pre-configured virtual machine or Hyper-V scenario

Microsoft Tools

• SQL Server 2005 or higher, including SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).  Note: SSIS, SSRS & SSAS are included with SQL Server 2005 and higher

• Internet Information Services (IIS) – included with Microsoft Windows Server

• MS Excel 2007 or higher – either standalone or as a part of Microsoft Office

Client Responsibilities

• Promote staff buy-in and program effectiveness throughout the organization

• Encourage staff feedback

• Enthusiastic workshop participation

• Security and infrastructure access, if necessary

• Project point-of-contact