Business Intelligence

Our Solution Approach: Business Intelligence
Many organizations provide hundreds or thousands of reports to their teams as a way to help understand past performance when the enabler that they really need is something that can help drive behavior that will improve future performance.

Our Business Intelligence (BI) solutions focus on providing insight through data analysis. This insight can be delivered through many different channels and sources:

• Web-based dashboards and scorecards
• Within the context of core business applications
• On a self-service rather than IT-driven basis
• By combining traditionally unrelated data
• For both computer-savvy and non-sophisticated users

MPS Partners is influenced by a few key methodologies for designing a BI solution:

• The Kimball Method for Designing Data Warehouses
• The MPS Partners Software Lifecycle
• MPS Partners Business Intelligence Methodology

We believe that a properly designed data tier should serve as a foundation for providing a flexible user interface and a dynamic user experience. OLAP cubes built on top of a data mart are the key elements to a successful BI environment. When properly constructed:

• It becomes easy to build dashboards that allow business users to view data in an intuitive manner
• It becomes easy to build meaningful reports directly from the data with minimal customization or custom calculations
• Ad hoc analysis becomes possible with Excel, using a single source of truth

Products: Our Key Technologies
Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 – Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a comprehensive, integrated data management and analysis software that enables organizations to reliably manage mission-critical information and confidently run today’s increasingly complex business applications. SQL Server 2005 allows companies to gain greater insight from their business information and achieve faster results for a competitive advantage.

Microsoft PerformancePoint Services – Built on the proven business intelligence platform of Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is an integrated performance management application that helps make it easy for you to:

• Monitor the performance of your organization
• Analyze the results
• Plan for the future of the business

Excel Services – Excel Services is a Microsoft Office SharePoint technology that makes it simple to use, share, secure, and manage Microsoft Office Excel 2007 workbooks (.xslx, .xslb) as interactive reports in a consistent way throughout the enterprise. With Excel Services, you can:

• Quickly deploy analytical data built and stored in SQL Server Analysis Services
• Manage your Excel “spreadmarts” so that you have a “single source of truth”

Create a Business Intelligence environment that is based on the tool users know the best: Excel!

Please contact us at 312.756.1760 or sales@mpspartners.com to learn more about our Business Intelligence competency.