Business Intelligence

Using Microsoft SQL 2005 with Integration, Reporting and Analysis Services

SQL Server 2005 helps companies gain business insight and deliver faster results by connecting the people, processes and information more effectively than ever before. All too often business decisions are made based on gut reactions, not on sound information. With a ten-fold increase expected in the volume of data from IT systems, it's time to move from the spreadsheet to the data warehouse, the real-time report, the dashboard and the scorecard to bring business decision-making up to date.

Business challenges: What's the financial health of the business? What's working and what's not in business processes? Who's selling what, where and when? How does website and e-commerce traffic relate to the bottom line?   The Solution: Financial reporting for non-financial managers Sales reporting to provide behavior-changing information Making sense of e-commerce - integrating data from your websites with data from back office systems Monitoring solutions that report on the effectiveness of a technology offering Information solutions to support the sale of information   Discover how SQL Server 2005 can enhance your business intelligence: One integrated platform - including online analytical processing (OLAP); data mining, extract, transformation, and load tools (ETL), data warehousing and reporting functionality. Improved decision making - improved data mining, reporting and analysis services. Enterprise-wide analytical capabilities - helping you more easily integrate and analyze data from systems across your company. Higher security and availability - failover, mirroring and built in data encryption.