Make the best use of Business Objects tools to access the right information, analyze it, and share standardized reports across your enterprise and beyond.

Get better insight into your organization. Business Objects WebIntelligence™ is one of the primary tools that Decision First implements to easily track, understand and manage organizational data over intranets and extranets, while maintaining tight security over data access. Throughout your organization and across multiple platforms, Decision First’s consultants will help you deliver a solution that provides powerful ad-hoc, reporting and analysis capabilities.

For those clients who need a powerful desktop client tool for analyzing offline data, Decision First helps you implement and share Desktop Intelligence reports throughout your organization. Because of our deep-rooted relationship with Business Objects and legacy Desktop Intelligence platforms, we have extensive experience in developing and maintaining Desktop Intelligence reports.

WebIntelligence or Desktop Intelligence makes business intelligence accessible for users of all skill levels. Casual users are empowered to create reports and analyze the data themselves via step-by-step report creation and one-click, on-report analysis. Advanced users can create sophisticated multi-block reports with powerful calculations, filters and drill-through analysis. Decision First provides you with a solution that leverages your investment by transferring our knowledge and experience throughout your organization.

For more information concerning Web Intelligence, please visit the BusinessObjects™ Web Site.

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Decision First provides solutions that offer the most efficient means of delivering, formatting and viewing your data. When companies don't have sufficient time to draft highly-formatted reports, they turn to Decision First as an extension of their development staff. Our report developers serve to complement your staffing needs for either specific projects or long-term requirements for customized, interactive and professional-looking Crystal Reports. Whether we are creating new reports or reviewing existing ones, Decision First will help you make the most of Crystal Report's powerful design environment.

Make sound decisions in implementing a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution. We centralize and consolidate your valuable business logic. We carefully explain the impact of your decisions. We help you overcome obstacles to ensure a successful BI strategy.

Whether creating Crystal Reports, securing data, or implementing intelligent report delivery solutions, we provide detailed documentation which outlines the completed work. We communicate recommendations to help you maintain a useful Business Intelligence platform. And, we will work closely with your staff to transfer our knowledge so you can maintain and evolve your business intelligence platform.

Decision First provides solutions around:

• Complex formulas: converted and formatted data in exactly the format you would expect.
• Complex formatting: techniques for a visual experience that matches your expectations.
• Graphical data visualization: visually appealing charts and graphs.
• Trend charts and analytics: decision-making tools allowing you to adjust to changes within your organization or industry.
• Transactional databases: useful and comprehensive reports derived from highly normalized OLTP data sources.
• Report bursting: individualized reports scheduled and delivered from a single source to a diverse set of users.

For more information concerning Crystal Report, please visit the BusinessObjects Crystal Report Demo Site

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Decision First uses Dashboard Builder and Performance Manager to provide your enterprise with dashboards (rich with your favorite KPI's), balanced scorecards, performance monitoring and alerting capabilities. We specialize in using these capabilities to provide you with a customized business intelligence solution designed to improve your organizational effectiveness. You will gain broad visibility into the current status of your business, enabling you to track how your organization is performing against your strategic goals and how day-to-day execution is aligned with corporate strategy. With our custom add-on dashboard solutions, you can start with a comprehensive overview of your performance and then dynamically drill into existing reports to help you understand how and why. For those clients that need a quick solution that maximizes ROI, we have developed Dashboard Express.

For more information concerning Dashboard Builder, please visit the BusinessObjects™ Website.

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For those organizations needing deeper analysis, Decision First uses the Business Object's analytical engines to provide your enterprise with:

• Set Analysis: Segment customers, products, or other business information so that you can fully understand your main business drivers. Easily track the migration of customers between business segments so that you can better understand how your business is changing.
• Predictive Analysis: Anticipate customer business behavior and take pre-emptive action. Understand the underlying drivers behind customer behaviors.
• Statistical Process Control: Improve the quality of your products and services through automatic monitoring and sharing of process quality information across your organization.

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At the core of almost every Business Objects implementation is the semantic layer. This metadata layer simplifies communication between the business-user and the complex language of the database. A semantic layer has several important benefits:

• Insulates end users from the complexities of the database
• Enforces security
• Provides a consistent and clear view of data
• Increased end-user accuracy and productivity
• Empowering end users to access data without the reliance on IT.

Business Objects Universe

Empowers your end users to easily create reports and analyze data, decreasing their dependency on your valuable IT resources by leveraging the power of the BusinessObjects Universe. Decision First can provide a solution to help you deploy an easy to use and understand interface for non technical Web Intelligence users to run queries against a database, to create reports and to perform data analysis. Decision First provides solutions that:

• Utilize advanced row level security techniques.
• Shield end users from complex and proprietary database structures.
• Intuitively map database fields to Universe objects and classes in easily understood Business Terms.
• Quickly and efficiently aggregate data used for analysis across multiple fact tables.

Business Views

Decision First has extensive experience creating comprehensive semantic layers for our clients utilizing the power of BusinessObjects Enterprise repository and the Business View manager. We implement Business Views to help our clients:

• Integrate data from disparate sources into a centralized and intuitive format.
• Implement best practices for preserving and centralizing business logic by leveraging the benefits of the Business View repository.
• Create List of Values that enable dynamic reporting.

Decision First will work with you to develop and deliver secure reporting data sources by leveraging the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform in combination with the Business View manager and Universe Designer.

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