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Your
Business Problems - Our Solutions
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Every
customer is unique with varying operating environments. However,
there are are similar needs and problems which the right Business
Intelligence solution can solve.
Below,
we've listed some of the most common issues customers face
and how we can help you not only solve your problems, but
provide you a path forward from data collection and free from
analysis to web friendly distribution and download.
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Integrating
data from multiple sources
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Your
Problem: You have several data sources and locations using
various platforms and formats. Integrating multiple data streams
is crucial to getting a unified view of your business. However,
integrating data and applications throughout the enterprise
and presenting them in a unified view can be a complex and
lengthy proposition.
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Our
Solution: Whether your data resides in SQL tables, flat
files, spreadsheets or proprietary vendor formats, DI’s
Data Integrator can access, verify, and transform these sources.
The Data Integrator is a robust Extraction, Transformation,
and Loading (ETL) tool that accepts input from virtually any
data source and combines them. The Data Integrator contains
a large suite of powerful data manipulation functions including
joins, table lookups, and filters.
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BI is Too
Expensive
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Your
Problem: You are paying high maintenance fees to your
existing BI vendor. Or, you have dropped BI projects because
of the often high costs of deploying databases, data warehouses
and additional specialists.
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Our
Solution: Often we can provide more functionality for
a lesser cost without a database and data warehouses. Talk
to us, we'd be happy to replace some of our competitors licenses
for ours! Moreover, we don't require expensive data base licenses
or third party vendors so typically we are less than half
what you will pay for the large BI vendors including implementation.
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BI is Too
Complex
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Your
Problem: Too often, traditional BI solutions require deploying
database(s), data warehouses, specialized data marts, and/or
memory heavy servers. You want better business analysis, not
an entire new IT infrastructure.
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Our
Solution: With 20 years of experience, Dimensional Insight
provides a powerful yet easy to master suite of tools and
is architected to drive results, not IT expenditure. From
a Visual Integrator to a easy to use web editor to securely
and effortlessly publish reports and graphs, we provide tools
that deliver results.
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You have
a Multi-terabyte Data Warehouse and its taking too long to extract
data for
new projects
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Your
Problem: Data warehouses are now in the terabytes, making
it a challenge to access timely and precise information. And
your Data Warehouse is growing between 10% and 25% annually,
making queries even slower.
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Our
Solution: Different users have different requirements
and some may suggest building out data marts. Our solution
is to build "models". For example, a sales analyst
is provided a model which contains the data in a free form
format so they can run their analysis and reporting independently
from the Data Warehouse.
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Excel Hell!
(But some want to keep using Excel)
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Your
Problem: You are moving in the direction of deploying
better reporting tools, but you have some users that won't
give up their Excel tools.
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Our
Solution: Dimensional Insight provides an Excel plug-in
solution called Cell Diver. Cell Diver accesses the same models
that your BI users utilize so you provide a single source
of data, but different users use their own preferred tool
to report and analyze data.
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Free Form
Analysis
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Your
Problem: You already have a BI tool such as Cognos which
is considered "reporting-centric" solution by Gartner.
You need more free form analysis, not another structured solution
that produces more structured reports.
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Our
Solution: From the beginning, the solution architecture
was built around a "sphere" concept. The design
of free form models allows a user to literally, "dive"
into a data field and continue to dive in different directions
into the data. This unique design truly provide free form
analysis so you can uncover opportunities and discover risks
before they discover you.
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Multiple
User Levels and Requirements
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Your
Problem: You have some users that want finished reports,
some users who just want to see dashboards, others who want
to analyze data in detail and publish their findings.
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Our
Solution: Dimensional Insight provides 3 levels of access:
Advanced, General, and Casual. Advanced access is usually
the IT administrator who manages the overall system and ensure
security integrity. The General user are those power users
that want to "dive" into the data free form and
conduct analysis, create reports, and publish to files such
as PDF or to a Web. Finally, the Casual user is the person
who just wants to see updates, single click to download a
report, chart or Excel spreadsheet.
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Near Real
Time Analysis - Scheduled Extraction
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Your
Problem: Your competitive advantage relies on near real
time analysis of your operations. How can I get up to date
data?
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Our
Solution: We have a Scheduler product which instructs
the Integrator (ETL) to retrieve and update data for the users.
This can be run nightly, hourly or even more frequent and
you can program specifically what data is to be updated. Moreover,
you don't have an entire database since we utilize models,
you can select which models need more frequent updates.
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Incorporating
External Data
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Your
Problem: You want to incorporate externally retrieved
data with your own internal data.
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Our
Solution: We have a Tunnel product which “tunnels”
out and grabs data from external sources in real time. This
data can then be incorporated via our Integrator (ETL) to
update both internal AND external data for your end users.
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Don't Have
the BI Expertise, or Limited IT Staff
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Your
Problem: Many organizations want BI and fully understand
the need for better reporting and analytical tools, but they
don't have the time nor budget to put together a traditional
BI Team of a data base administrator, ETL expert, data warehouse
expert and a systems analyst to build reports.
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Our
Solution: The Dimensional Solution has been architected
with customer feed back for over 20 years. The solution is
designed for you to make fast progress while providing facilities
for more advanced requirements when you're BI needs advance.
Case in point, our Visual Integrator provides an easy to use
interface, yet provide a code editor for those that want to
do more detailed programming.
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Want to
Start Small
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Your
Problem: Many BI project never get approved simply because
most of the current architectures require heavy infrastructure
along with lots of in house expertise.
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Our
Solution: We can show you how we can meet your business
objectives within a given budget and not simply just deliver
software, but a working BI solution with customer reports
which you can easily modify and expand on your own.
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