Reporting Solutions and Business Intelligence - How to Avoid Implementation Pitfalls
Budgets and resources for improving or implementing a better business intelligence system are tight and will be tight for a while despite some signs of an economy recovery.
On the other hand, senior management and operational manager need better and faster information, preferably with a web based (true zero foot print) analytics and reporting system, particularly for sales reporting and sales analysis.
So, should you be faced with one or more of the following challenges:
It should include the back-end (data warehouse),a modern zero foot print, web based analytics system and pre-packaged business solutions to enable you to implement one reporting solution (e.
g.
sales analysis) within days and not weeks or months.
You may not get this from the Tier 1 business intelligence players, as their goal is to sell you as many services as possible, some of them are even heavily subsidizing their license fees or even gave the license away for free.
DO NOT fall into this trap, you will pay later bitterly for services and maintenance.
Go for medium sized BI vendors who know your ERP-system and can provide real value for your money.
To be on the safe side, ask them for a free POC (Proof of Concept) with your own data.
You can get a brilliant BI system like BDA which can be implemented in less than one week for under $50,000, so do not spend too much money, only because your hardware/data-base provider tries to sell you their BI-system.
BDA includes a modern SQL-Server based data warehouse, pre-packaged business applications for a variety of ERP modules like sales, financials, inventory etc.
and a great analysis front-end tool with unlimited amount of users with a price point under $50,000 inclusive the implementation of one module like sales analysis.
On the other hand, senior management and operational manager need better and faster information, preferably with a web based (true zero foot print) analytics and reporting system, particularly for sales reporting and sales analysis.
So, should you be faced with one or more of the following challenges:
- Your management is asking for better and faster sales reporting.
- You want to have better control of your profit margins.
- Your existing reporting solution is too static and is missing the flexibility you and your users are looking for.
- You would like to introduce web based business intelligence and analytics but you do not have the resources and the budget.
- The TOC (total cost of ownership) of your existing business intelligence or reporting system is too high as you need a lot of external and internal resources to maintain the system?
It should include the back-end (data warehouse),a modern zero foot print, web based analytics system and pre-packaged business solutions to enable you to implement one reporting solution (e.
g.
sales analysis) within days and not weeks or months.
You may not get this from the Tier 1 business intelligence players, as their goal is to sell you as many services as possible, some of them are even heavily subsidizing their license fees or even gave the license away for free.
DO NOT fall into this trap, you will pay later bitterly for services and maintenance.
Go for medium sized BI vendors who know your ERP-system and can provide real value for your money.
To be on the safe side, ask them for a free POC (Proof of Concept) with your own data.
You can get a brilliant BI system like BDA which can be implemented in less than one week for under $50,000, so do not spend too much money, only because your hardware/data-base provider tries to sell you their BI-system.
BDA includes a modern SQL-Server based data warehouse, pre-packaged business applications for a variety of ERP modules like sales, financials, inventory etc.
and a great analysis front-end tool with unlimited amount of users with a price point under $50,000 inclusive the implementation of one module like sales analysis.
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