Reporting, Analytics & Dashboards
Our designers and BI tool experts work with your organization to ensure the information coming out of the BI tool you invested in is exactly what you wanted and information is presented how you need it. We have expertise with the most popular BI tools in the industry including Hyperion, Business Objects, Cognos, SQL Server Analysis and Reporting Services and MicroStrategy.
Information Architecture
Information Architecture (IA) is the practice of organizing and structuring information for intuitive access by the customer or end user. VIP has experience helping companies get their hands around key focuses of IA such as: Information Delivery, Stewardship, Information Structures and Data Management.
Do you have difficulty accessing information needed to make decisions? Does your company leverage best practices pertaining to information delivery and structure? Some benefits of implementing a successful information architecture are:
- Optimized user access to information resulting in better decision-making
- Deepened understanding of Enterprise Information resulting in more comprehensive and accurate delivery to business users
- Documented Information Architecture and Design Principles resulting in efficient development of analytic projects
- Defined strategies to deliver Information resulting in focused development efforts and customer (business user) satisfaction.
Systems Implementations
The ability to draw actionable insights from large volumes of data has become critical for high-performing organizations. At the same time, the volume of data is exploding at increased rates. As a result, a central challenge is improving both the efficiency and effectiveness of transforming data into meaningful information. VIP can lead you through the challenges of a new installation or the upgrade of a business intelligence solution, making sure to insert best practices along the way. Once your business intelligence product is in place, VIP has experience in delivering this information to your user community in any of the following ways:
- Operational, Static or Distributed Reporting
- Ad Hoc Reporting
- Analytics (OLAP)
- Dashboarding
Whether you are migrating operational reports from your ERP to a new operational data store, performing new report development, implementing an ad hoc reporting capability or converting from one version to another, VIP has the seasoned consultants that can help you with your planning, design and development needs. As operational reporting is important to give you a detailed view of what has happened, analytics can also provide you a historical view with the ability to perform user defined analysis on specific identified company metrics. With analytical reporting VIP can provide you the ability to monitor trends and watch key performance indicators. Utilizing this insight can enhance the quality of your decision making. VIP also can develop business intelligence dashboards that highlight key performance indicators of your company that can give a executive an quick intuitive view at the current performance of the company.
Strategy & Roadmap
VIP offers deep experience in leading companies through the process of determining business requirements, defining an enterprise business intelligence strategy and executable roadmap. Whether you are interested in embarking on a new business intelligence environment or looking to revitalize an existing business intelligence solution with the desire to increase the return on your investment, VIP can provide you with the expertise and guidance that you need.
Tool Evaluations
VIP’s breadth and depth of experience in developing business intelligence solutions using the industry’s leading business intelligence toolsets brings a tremendous value to your tool selection process. In addition, VIP consultants will not only uncover reporting/analytics requirements, but security, scalability and metadata needs as well in order to help you identify the tool/suite that presents the most complete business intelligence solution.
