Business Intelligence (BI) is a buzz word right now. Essentially it is something most organizations have been carrying out in some shape or form but now companies such as Microsoft and Business Objects are marketing their core products in an integrated group under the Business Intelligence banner.

In the Microsoft world BI starts with SQL Server 2000 & 2005. Add to this, SQL Analysis Services, Reporting Services, Business Scorecard Manager and SharePoint and you get a first class single point access browser based solution to understanding and monitoring your company data.

If we take CarweB as an example case, The CarweB "VRR Host" database is a large database of details on all UK vehicles. It gets feeds from other suppliers of data such as Police notification of stolen vehicles and extra manufacture data on the vehicles. Typical end users of the system are car dealers needing a quick way to import all the specific details onto a potential sales sheet, web site or portal.

If we then add some Business Intelligence to this database we can start by data cubing vehicle data by post code region, filtering this by CO2 emissions, linking into Geo software such as Microsoft MapPoint and schedule a report of this data and now we can see real time reports of areas of the country that have high CO2 levels due solely to vehicle emissions.

Contact us now and let us Integrate, Analyze and Report on your data to add value.