Springhouse Business Intelligence (BI) Solution

Business Intelligence (BI) Workshop

Take your first step towards business intelligence with the Springhouse BI Workshop. Our 2 day, private workshops are designed to introduce organizations to the concepts and benefits of business intelligence, data warehousing and reporting systems. Our BI Workshop is ideal for organizations with limited or no prior business intelligence experience. Our consultant guides you through the benefits and options of a Business Intelligence solution.

Working with key stakeholders from your organization, a Springhouse BI consultant will address your existing infrastructure, application, and database investments in order to identify the near and long-term benefits of improved information management. Together, we will define a Business Intelligence solution that maximizes existing investments and harnesses the tools your employees already use.

Learn how to harness the data you already have

• Is the data your organization collects stored in numerous systems and databases?
• Is that data inaccessible to most employees?
• Are you unable to leverage all of your data to make sound business decisions?
• Are you missing a complete and integrated view of your organization’s health?

Experience the benefits of transforming your data into actionable insight

• Provide timely, accurate, and comprehensive views of business health relative to established goals and objectives.
• Empower employees with the data and analysis they need to make actionable decisions.
• Derive more value from your ERP, CRM, and other applications with efficient and accurate reports.
• Return greater value from leveraging existing investments in Microsoft technologies.

Quickly understand the tangible benefits of a BI solution

• Design improved visibility into business performance at all levels of your organization.
• Understand how to better adapt to changing business needs with technologies that replace manual, time-consuming data gathering.
• Learn how to integrate data from disparate sources and improve the reliability and accuracy of reports.
• Formulate a plan that outlines key action items and next steps for delivering on Business Intelligence opportunities.

The BI Workshop includes:

1. Overview and product demonstrations of the complete line of Microsoft Business Intelligence offerings, including:
   • SQL Server 2005
   • SQL Server 2005 Integration Services
   • SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services
   • SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
   • Microsoft Office products (Access Excel, Office Web Components, Data Analyzer, SharePoint Portal Server)
   • Integration with ASP.NET
2. Discussion of your organizational requirements
3. Identification of potential data sources and business processes
4. Creation of a BI roadmap to identify your next steps
5. Identify your training needs

Note:
To maximize the benefit of this workshop, the attendees should have an initial understanding of the business requirements, as well as access to, and knowledge of, the underlying data sources.

Business Intelligence (BI) Consulting

Springhouse has a team of experienced specialists prepared to assist your IT staff in maximizing their full potential. Springhouse offers the following consulting options for Business Intelligence:

• BI Requirements Gathering
  Springhouse has the expertise to help you clearly document what you would like to accomplish as you gather the information needed for your finished product.

• SQL Server 2005 Deployment
  Our senior developers are prepared to assist you with the installation, configuration and maintenance this powerful and reliable product.

• SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Deployment
  Not only can Springhouse provide a consultant to help you install and configure Reporting Services, we can also get you started with creating reports.

• SQL Server 2000 Migration
  Springhouse has the experience you need to upgrade to SQL 2000 and help you move your data from SQL 2000.

• Access to SQL Database Migration
  Most of the time, the upgrade to later versions works seamlessly, but sometimes…it’s not so seamless. Springhouse can help, whether you want to keep your front-end in Access, or migrate to a web application that accesses a SQL server.

• Data Source Integration (SSIS, DTS, Custom Coding)
  Having difficulty getting data from SQL to Project, SQL to SharePoint, or a custom app to SQL? Perhaps you have data from a legacy system that exists in a flat file that needs to be cleaned up and inserted into a separate database? Springhouse can help you get your data from here to there

• Report Design (Reporting Services, Crystal Reports, Access, Excel, SharePoint
  Springhouse can create reports that meet your specifications, whether you are using Crystal Reports, SQL Reporting Services, or Microsoft Access.

 

Springhouse Technical Training

Ranked in the top 5% of US Microsoft Gold Partners to provide training in newest releases of tools and applications, Springhouse continually prepares for upcoming courses so that we can deliver the finest training in the industry as soon as a new course is available.

 

Call us at 610.321.2090 for a listing of BI courses .