www.crgroup.com
6 Antares Drive, Phase 1, Suite 200, Ottawa, ON K2E 8A9 Canada Tel: 613.232.4295 Fax: 613.232.7276
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Agenda
Introductions
About CRG
Seminar Objectives
The What and Why of BI
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Product Demonstration
CRG Implementation Approach
Q&A and Next Steps
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CRG Overview
Founded in 1989
We are global company with offices in Canada, South Africa, India and the United States
Thousands of companies use CRG solutions
Partnered with industry leaders:
CRG Solutions and ServicesManagement Consulting
Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Shared Services, Activity-based Costing/Management, Planning and Budgeting, Shareholder Value Creation
Business Management Solutions
Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, Microsoft Dynamics ™ CRM, Microsoft® Business Solutions Small Business Financials
Business Performance Products
Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-on Products, EmPerform, FlexABM, Enterprise Scorecard, Cost Allocator, Shared Services Manager (SSM), eSurvey
All our solutions are designed to fulfill our mission:
Driving Better Business Management and Performance.
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Some Key Customers
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Seminar Objectives
Provide you with a general understanding of Business Intelligence (BI).
Share with you the Microsoft BI strategy and solution.
Describe our capabilities and experience in implementing BI solutions.
Answer your questions and help you with your BI journey.
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What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time.
BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making.
BI leads to:
fact-based decision making
“single version of the truth”
BI includes reporting and analytics.
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Why BI?The Five Questions
• What happened?
• What is happening?
• Why did it happen?
• What will happen?
• What do I want to happen?
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Past
Present
Future
Data
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Common Pain Points...
Data everywhere, information no where
Different users have different needs
Excel versus PDF
Pull versus push
On demand – on schedule
Your format – my format
Takes too long – wasted resources/efforts
Security
Technical “mumbo jumbo” … Why I just can’t get it to you when you want it.
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Improving organizations by Improving organizations by providing business insights providing business insights to to allall employees leading to employees leading to better, faster, more better, faster, more relevant decisionsrelevant decisions
Advanced AnalyticsAdvanced Analytics
Self Service ReportingSelf Service Reporting
End-User AnalysisEnd-User Analysis
Business Performance ManagementBusiness Performance Management
Operational Applications Operational Applications Embedded AnalyticsEmbedded Analytics
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision
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Microsoft BI Principles
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Microsoft BI Growth: Gaining Ground
“Microsoft's BI Tools revenue growth in 2005 was more than 25 percent, growing at more than twice the rate of the overall market. …Microsoft's impact on the BI tools market cannot be overemphasized. This impact will mark an evolutionary change that has been put into motion by the database vendors overall and will reshape the BI tools market over the next 15 years.”
Dan Vesset, IDC
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Microsoft BI Platform
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Microsoft BI Platform
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SQL Server Database Management
Business Intelligence Platform
SQL Server Relational Database – provides a robust, scalable and enterprise-ready Data Warehouse platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has improved partitioning, manageability, and query optimizations to streamline data warehouse operations and increase performance.
Many Business Solutions and systems currently use this database.
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SQL Server Integration ServicesProvides functionality commonly referred to as Extract, Transform, Load (ETL).
Moves and transforms data between sources and destinations, regardless of format.
Cleanses data and ensures data integrity.
Integrates heterogeneous data sources.
Business Intelligence Platform
Source: 2007 Microsoft® Office System Business Intelligence Integration, White Paper, February 1, 2007, Anthony T. Mann
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SQL Server Analysis ServicesAllows for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), commonly referred to as “cubes”.
Includes advanced analytical features such as complete data mining and key performance indicator frameworks.
Enables organizations to accommodate multiple analytic needs within one solution.
Business Intelligence Platform
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SQL Server Reporting ServicesProvides a complete reporting platform so that end-users can view data using a Web browser or desk top.
Includes report authoring tools for both technical developers and business users.
Allows web-based viewing and rendering in popular document formats such as Microsoft Excel and PDF.
Contains robust e-mail subscription capability.
Business Intelligence Platform
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Microsoft BI Platform
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End User Tools & Performance Management
Microsoft Excel 2007
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End User Tools & Performance Management
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007Planning Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and
budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy.
Monitoring and Analysis Powerful analytics capabilities empower business users to
access data and to perform analyses on their own so that they can make better, faster decisions.
Release scheduled for Q4, 2007
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Microsoft BI Platform
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Delivery
ReportsExcel
WorkbooksDashboards Scorecards
AnalyticViews
Plans
SearchContent Management
Collaboration
Share Point Server
Microsoft Office SharePoint ServerKey Benefit: makes information easy to access and use.
Brings the “Self-Service” to BI.
Serves as the central access point for all reports and business data.
Provides integration to Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel, ProClarity Analytics, Dashboards (currently known as Business Scorecard Manager) and PerformancePoint Server.
Allows users to collaborate, annotate and search.
Stores documents in a document library.
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What We Like About the Microsoft BI Platform?
We believe that Microsoft offers superior value for the following reasons:
It’s affordable and leverages existing investments. In many cases the organization already own the
Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office licenses.
It’s modular–organizations can deploy it all at once or one piece at a time. For instance, one can start with Reporting Services
and cubes and then integrate everything with SharePoint.
Microsoft is focused on the end-user experience and making BI easy to use.
Product Demonstration & Roadmap
Reporting services (design–build–deploy)
Excel 2007 (familiar world)
ProClarity - Analytics
PerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007) (plan–monitor–analyze)
SharePoint Server
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CRG Offers
Knowledge
Experience
Vision
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Our Capabilities
CRG has a talented, experienced group of professional consultants that can help you successfully implement any or all of your BI solution.
Our business team consists of MBAs, CAs, CMAs, CGAs and CFAs.
Our technical team consists of Microsoft-Certified consultants who have many years of experience implementing Business Intelligence solutions.
We believe in the dedicated involvement of both business and technical consultants who also provide post-implementation support and training.
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Our Implementation Objectives
Our primary goal is to ensure that… We understand the business requirements – we
prefer to start with the highest pain point. We can provide cost-effective solutions that meets
business requirements. We can provide a superior end-user experience.
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Our Implementation Approach
Focus on the immediate pain point and delivery and deployment paths
Domain: Sales, Financial Reporting, Product Development, Projects, HR, Operations, Inventories, Purchasing, etc.
Deployment: Reports, PDFs, cubes, push-pull, briefing books, URLs, IPAQ, Browser, etc.
Develop a prototype solution.
Validate the prototype against the business needs.
Finalize and implement the automated solution.
Train the users.
Deploy the solution across the organization.
Move on to the next pain point.
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CRG Implementation Approach
The End Result
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Q&A and Next StepsFor more information, please contact us at:www.crgroup.com | 613.232.4295
Doug Hum, Director, Marketing and Business Development [email protected] | 613.232.4295 ext. 286
Vijay [email protected] | 613.232.4295 ext. 228
John [email protected] | 613.232.4295 ext. 239
May [email protected] | 613.232.4295 ext. 226
Kobana [email protected] | 613.232.4295 ext. 227
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