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Business Intelligence (BI)
Business intelligence (BI) is the cornerstone
of the successes many companies and organisations enjoy today. It
lets you use information quickly to make informed decisions, by
transforming the many differing data types across typical organisations
today into a single information source.
Letting you share information on a secured basis with
customers and partners, both internally and externally to forge
highly effective and lasting relationships, BI reporting provides
for one view of the business that can be shared across an organisation.
This reduces the time taken in understanding the current picture
and providing a focal point driving the business forwards with confidence
on its information systems
BI delivers the infrastructure you need to
meet the unique IT challenges of the Internet, including:
> Many data sources, internal and external
> Differing data types
> Many users
> Faster development cycles
Cognos
The Cognos Platform is used by Simpson Associates
and is the first and only solution to provide true end-to-end coverage
of all end-users needs, both inside and outside an organisation,
while also delivering the unified data infrastructure that's critical
to running businesses today, both large and small. The Cognos Platform
is built for enterprise implementation and is ready for Internet,
extranet, and intranet deployments in addition to traditional desktop
deployments.
With the Cognos Platform you gain sophisticated
visualisations and scorecarding facilties, in-depth reporting and
analysis, and ad-hoc query reporting capabilities as well as pre-packaged
ReadyMade data marts. Alternatively, you can create BI-ready reporting
applications vthrough a common portal interface, which can provide
suppliers, partners, and customers a single point of personalised
access to information.
Further Product Information
> more about Cognos (BI)
> more about Cognos Finance
> more about ReadyMade®
Data Mirror
For those seeking to consolidate their data
sources, spread across many different platforms and databases, Simpson
Associates is able, via its partenrship with DataMirror, to address
the complexities of staged data and data warehouse environments
by using DataMirror Transformation Server (TS) as a tool capable
of moving high volumes of data in the most efficient of data migrations.
Friendly to communications networks and CPU's alike, TS is natively
supported on many different platforms, including Intel and IBM AS/400
and optionally pushes data as it changes, providing significant
performance gains over many other tools, only able to extract data
on a snapshot basis
Further Product Information
> more about DataMirror
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