Enterprise Intelligence

Fact Based Decision Making

Facts are available within every company, but they often reside in fragmented local systems which are difficult to access. The creation of a Data Warehouse (DW) will allow you to collect and store information at an appropriate level to add value to the business decision making process. A Data Warehouse can provide management with the tools and information to influence many positive behaviours within a company and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

A Data Warehouse will allow a company to "cut and slice" the stored information to establish reports that may have been considered impossible in the past. With the further enhancements we have seen in web based technologies, information is becoming available at a Global level and is only constrained by the availability of an IT Network. The Users can now view common business reports, and drill-down to subsequent data layers to solve business issues and problems.

Most companies have implemented a number of corporate computer systems in different functional areas of their business. This is a challenge to any Global Data Warehouse initiative because related information will need to be collected from multiple sources such as ERP, MRP, financial and warehouse systems.

Extracting this data, transforming values and loading the data into a star schema relational database is complex and needs thorough data analysis to correctly map the information into the Data Warehouse. This is a critical step that will effect the accuracy of the information and the overall acceptance of the solution within the business. It all sounds extremely complicated and technical, but when approached in the right way using experienced GSC Consultants the task become easy to achieve.

By implementing this technology, you will be able to:

• Make Business decisions based of facts
• Design Global reports that measure key performance indicators (KPI)
• Cut & slice the information in new unforeseen ways
• Have Global access to information via the Internet
• Introduce Intelligent Business Reports with alerts
• Introduce "agents" that trigger if a business condition occurs.

GSC Consulting can provide all levels of support to enable the successful implementation of a Data Warehouse.