Invest in Business Intelligence
Do you know which of your customers are profitable for your business? Unprofitable?
Do you know the right direction for your business next year?
Do you understand the long-term trends in your business and how they relate to other variables?
Do you know the root causes for your business' sucesses and failures?
The McLeod Software Business Intelligence (BI) Foundation product was designed to help our customers get started using the Microsoft Business Intelligence Suite of tools to build valuable and sophisticated reporting, analytics and decision support tools to answer critical questions like these.
One advantage of McLeod’s approach to delivering business intelligence solutions is that the data warehouse operates outside your actual production system to support advanced reporting and analytics. This means your team can embark on complex reporting and analysis with the BI tools without impacting the performance of your production systems. At the same time, you have access to the important data that comes from your LoadMaster or PowerBroker system along with data from your other systems.
The McLeod BI Foundation product provides our customers a foundation product that includes a valuable pre-built multi-dimensional data cube, reporting tools, and training. Using it sets the stage for your adoption of Business Intelligence, giving you a terrific starting point to leverage BI today and building your own company specific data mart or data warehouse as you move forward.
The McLeod BI Foundation can be implemented rapidly, with real results in under a month’s time. This means your BI project yields value quickly. The first elements we install and bring to life with the BI Foundation product will contribute to how you run the business on day one.
The results are real.
McLeod customers who have adopted and started to use BI tell us it influences all sorts of management decisions. Their BI solutions have contributed to improvements in:
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Profitability
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Competitive Advantage
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Efficiency
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Making informed long term strategic decisions about how capital is spent
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Accurately accessing the factors that should drive these decisions and understanding the root causes of exceptions or problems in the business
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Seeing important trends and their impact long before it would have otherwise been clear
How do our customers get the most bang for their buck with a BI investment?
There are principles that guide the way we help our customers structure and implement their BI solution:
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Focus on helping people do their job better by making better, more informed decisions all the time.
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Focus on putting actionable information in place, in the right time frame, for the right people to take action.
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Focus on ways you help people gain greater understanding in order to guide their actions
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Present data and analysis in better context.
This usually means over longer time frames using more complex variables, so that it is easier to recognize and understand trends. This is more very difficult to accomplish with simple reports. BI Foundation gives us a better toolset to build that needed context across many variables with the right time scales.