"Why
Business
Intelligence?"
By definition, the moment any given business is operating, it begins generating data. Some obvious examples are sales, bookkeeping, production data, warehouse information, transportation and logistics, personnel, etc.
In addition there also exists large volumes of data which are important to the business but not directly generated by business operations. Examples are market data, competitive data, tenders and proposal, legal information, raw material prices, etc.
As such, none of the above described information can be used in its raw form by corporate management to make decisions although the information is critical in helping make those business decisions.
Therein lies
the
necessity
for Business
Intelligence (BI).
BI
technologies
help bring
decision-makers
the data in
a form they
can quickly
digest and
apply to
their
decision
making. BI
turns data
into
information
for managers
and
executives
and in
general,
people
making
decisions in
a company.
Business Intelligence is a broad category
of applications and technologies for gathering,
storing, analyzing, and providing access to data
to help enterprise users make better business
decisions.
In every industry, businesses are striving to
track, understand, and manage their information
more effectively so that they can evaluate
performance, plan their future and achieve
competitive advantage.
The key drivers for accurate and timely information include the need to:
* Place data in the hands of larger numbers and types of users.
* Make decisions more frequently and more accurately in shorter time scales.
* Customize data on a mass scale requiring data warehouses to provide different information to different people from different data sources.
* Manage the impact of new legislation and compliance regulations.
Our Business Intelligence (BI) software development services offerings can be divided into following areas:
* Front-end Development
* Data Warehousing and Mining
* Business Intelligence Reporting Services
Front End Development
There are cases where these ready-made solution fails to meet clients specific requirements. In such scenarios, GRIFFIN Ltd. leverages its capabilities in customized (bespoke) web front end reporting solutions. We can provide solutions based on multiple technology platforms such as:
* .NET platform including VB.NET, C# and ASP.NET
* PHP and MySQL
These web-focused technologies enable the development of customized reporting and analysis front ends and are particularly useful for organizations with very large volumes of data they wish to work with or very complex reporting and analysis requirements.
Data Warehousing
and Mining
Data Mining refers to exploring data, discovering patterns, and applying these patterns to business operations with an easy-to-use, extensible, accessible, and flexible platform.
Data Warehousing leverages enhancements in partitioning, manageability and query optimizations in recent database solutions such as MS SQL Server 2005 and Oracle Database 10g to streamline operations and increase performance.
GRIFFIN Ltd. provides data mining and warehousing services from business intelligence perspective on SQL Server 2005 and PostgreSQL database platforms.
Business Intelligence
Reporting Services
We provide software development services with enterprise reporting capabilities using MS SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
At GRIFFIN Ltd., we have helped our clients in delivering business intelligence solutions with measurable value which are inline with long-term business goals for our customers.