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Business
Intelligence
Decision First's™ highly experienced consultants know how to make the best use of Business Objects® tools that will enable you to access the information you need, analyze it, and share standardized reports across your enterprise and beyond. We can help you in all aspects of your Business Intelligence strategy including staffing needs on individual projects, leadership in implementing a sound solution or a long-term partnership. Throughout the evolution of your Business Intelligence we can help you implement:
Reporting and Analysis
Query
and Analysis with Web Intelligence and Desktop Intelligence:
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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Enterprise Reporting with Crystal Reports:
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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OLAP
Intelligence:
Using BusinessObjects Voyager, Decision First will implement a solution where
financial and business analysts can explore OLAP data, using a full range
of functions for the analysis of multi-dimensional data sets. Users will be
able to quickly answer business questions and then simultaneously share their
analysis and workspace with others, spreading knowledge beyond the confines
of a single department or analysis group.
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Dashboards and Visualization
The key to maximizing the return on your business intelligence investment often lies in streamlining your
interface to provide optimum usability. That's why Decision First™ delivers solutions using Business Object's
Dashboard Builder, Performance Manager, Analytic Engines and Crystal Xcelsius. We have implemented hundreds of
dashboard and visualization solutions across multiple industries. Our experience will enable you in the following areas:
Dashboard Builder and Performance Manager:
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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Analytic Engines:
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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Data Visualization with Crystal
Xcelsius:
Decision First implements solutions using Crystal Xcelsius Enterprise and its visually stunning analytics. With Crystal Xcelsius, Decision First creates interactive visual models that let executives plan ahead, identify critical data relationships, prototype complex "what if" scenarios, and peer into your company's possible future performance. We help you discover the best ways to distribute and deploy Xcelsius Dashboards, while providing multiple options for connecting directly to your live corporate databases.
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Semantic Layer Design
Business
Objects Universes and Business Views:
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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