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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 prevalent issues customers like
you face and how we can help you identify and solve your problems,
and provide you with a path forward from data collection to
analysis to web friendly information distribution.
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Integrating
data from multiple sources
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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 hiring additional specialists and external consultants
as well as ongoing maintenance costs.
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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: As outlined by Industry experts, the DI solution
can provide more functionality for a lower Total Cost of Ownership
(CO). In many cases, without a costly new database and / or
data warehouse. Talk to us, we'd be happy to replace some
of our competitor's licenses for ours.
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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 and an additional burden on
IT resources.
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Our
Solution: With 20 years of experience, Dimensional Insight
provides a powerful and easy to master suite of tools and
is architected to drive results, not IT expenditure. From
a Visual Integrator to a Visual Builder and an easy to use
web editor to securely and effortlessly publish reports and
graphs, we provide tools that deliver personalized results
to all functional groups.
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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 with a model which contains the data in a free
form format so they can run their analysis and reporting independently
from the Data Warehouse. This saves time and effort and provides
personalized results without impacting the IT resources or
affecting the operational data storage performance.
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Excel Hell!
(But some want to keep using Excel)
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Your
Problem: Your business has grown using disparate Excel
databases which are resource intensive and error prone when
used to integrate data and perform analysis and create management
and operational reports. Or 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. This provides a soft migration
to move away from Excel Hell and experiencing BI heaven.
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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 a "reporting-centric" solution by
Gartner. You need more free form analysis, not another structured
solution that produces more structured reports. Your users
are in general not familiar with data formats and data hierarchy
and are therefore reticent to perform their own analysis and
create their own reports. Invariable these tasks fall to the
IT group and drain this valuable resource.
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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. In other words move around the data in the
way they think. This unique design truly provides free form
analysis so you can uncover opportunities and discover business
and operational risks before they discover you.
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Multiple
User Levels and Requirements
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Your
Problem: You have multiple levels of users; some users
that want reports, some users who just want to see dashboards,
others who want to analyze data in detail and publish their
analysis in a cost effective and pay by user need basis.
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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 ensures
security integrity. The General users are those power users
who want to "dive" into the data free form and conduct
analysis, create reports, and publish to files such as PDF
or to a Web. 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
automatically and / or vectored on a time or event. This can
be run nightly, hourly or even more frequent and you can program
specifically what data is to be updated.
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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. This data can then
be incorporated via our Integrator (ETL) to update data for
your end users and create latest reports without effecting
the operational data storage.
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Don't Have
the BI Expertise
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Your
Problem: Many organizations want BI and fully understand
the need for better reporting and analytical tools, but you
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 driven enhancements to simplify and empower
them 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
provides a code editor for those who 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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The Diver Solution gives you tactical
and strategic management of your data!
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