Services

What you get

Our objective is to give you a business intelligence solution that meets your needs now, and is adaptable and extensible enough to meet your needs in the future, extending your ROI.

• Assessment and review of environment and business goals
• Product installation and configuration
• Report and dashboard design and development
• The beginnings of a BI strategy.
• At every step of the way, we will guide your team in best practices, giving your team the tools they need to build a BI practice on a solid foundation.

Infrastructure Basics

The BI Builders has many years of experience rapidly installing and testing business intelligence products in diverse environments. Our team will ensure your business intelligence software is installed and configured optimally for solid performance.

• Install and configure your Business Objects software
• Plan and implement a low maintenance security model
• Ensure database connectivity
• Give your IT team an overview of administrative best practices
• Create and document a disaster recovery plan to ensure business continuity

Comprehensive Reports Empower the Business User

The BI Builders will design reports and demonstrate how to make the best use of the ad-hoc reporting tool.

• Conduct interviews to identify high priority reports
• Identify the appropriate display tool for the right audience and purpose (when to use Web Intelligence vs. Crystal Reports)
• Create some initial high impact reports and post them to the environment for viewing
• Provide an overview on how to use the ad-hoc reporting tool with your corporate data
• Create a sample “Universe” (a view of data suitable for non-IT users) to empower business users to ask and answer their own questions, leaving IT to focus on more strategic initiatives

Dashboard Design: Focusing on What Matters Most

The BI Builders know what to do, and what not to do in the world of dashboard design. Dashboards provide executives and managers with a consolidated view of their most important metrics in near real time to proactively manage the health of the business.

• Generate a pilot dashboard, using Xcelsius software, that intelligently displays key performance indicators for one department or group of users
• Facilitate a discussion on dashboard design best practices
• Perform a data source review to make recommendations about the best methods for connecting your dashboard to various data sources

Planning for the Future: A BI Strategy

The BI Jumpstart service provides a BI roadmap, which you can use as part of your BI strategy. The roadmap will outline next steps, risks, mitigations and a concrete vision for what is possible using this new system to guide your business.

A good BI strategy will drive positive change across your organization and put you ahead of the competition, without overburdening valuable resources.

As a final step, our expert strategists will describe an approach for building a complete BI strategy. A complete strategy will encompasses a detailed roadmap, as well as the people, processes, governance and organizational change management needed to put BI at the heart of your business. Our most successful clients have realized that BI is more than just software, and success through BI requires support for BI within the organization.

This service description is for reference only. Together, we will define the exact service to meet your needs before we begin. Time estimates given here are approximations, and represent the lower end of a range. Exact details depend on your business goals, resources, data and the like.

"The leadership team is excited to come in every morning and immediately tune into the pulse of the business." - Mr. Lube

Give your business a boost with business intelligence

The BI Builders LIQUID methodology ensures that your BI project will meet your business goals on time, and on budget.