Business Intelligence (BI) systems empower businesses with the right information at the right time, enabling the better business decisions. Through the speed, ease, and flexibility that BI lends to business analysis and reporting, companies reduce the cost and effort spent on gathering and reporting information. In the process, they gain a tool that provides greater business awareness, business monitoring, and support for decision making. Northridge Systems has the expertise and experience in implementing business intelligence to help you:

• Identify opportunities for your organization to benefit from the power of BI
• Identify how to extract and consolidate your “raw” data from its sources—ERP systems, Point-of-Sale databases, CRM applications, call center databases, human resource applications, GL applications, and other databases
• Make information available where and when you need it through high-performance reporting, business analysis tools, dashboards, scorecards, and other interactive tools

BI taps the power of your everyday business data to answer strategic questions, provide insight, and drive creative business analysis. It serves many routine business functions as well; financial reporting, sales reporting, employee bonus calculations, and accounting trial balance reports are a few of the many ways businesses have deployed BI. These functions require a variety of tools, including reports, ad hoc query tools, advanced ad hoc query tools, dashboards, and scorecards. A single BI solution serves all of these needs.

BI is broad; BI solutions include Decision Support Systems (DSS), Strategic Information Systems (SIS), data warehouses and marts, dashboards, scorecards, and more. Certainly, there are plenty of terms to make choosing the right path across the BI terrain difficult. Northridge Systems can apply its industry experience and Microsoft BI platform expertise to provide clarity from this complexity, and ensure that the best design, tools, and techniques are used to achieve your objectives.

The opportunities are really as diverse as your business is unique. Businesses that use BI discover many ways in which it adds value. Whatever goals you start with, you will likely find that your new BI platform offers benefits that you did not imagine when you started. You might discover that the BI system your company uses for accounting statements also makes a great source for the annual report, which is now easier and less expensive to produce.

In short, a BI solution becomes a single source of the truth, providing accurate, consistent, and current information across the organization. As such, BI applications give companies the information they need to drive of their growth and become more flexible, responsive, and alert.

For more detailed information about Business Intelligence services offered by Northridge Systems, please send us an information request or email sales@northridge.com