ASD - Business Intelligence Solutions

You know your business targets—vital statistical information that points to the health of your business. But identification and access to this data is only the first step. In today’s world you must manage by exception and take immediate action when targets are not being met. Let the professionals at Advanced System Designs create a business intelligence solution that delivers facts and figures in a timely, organized fashion, enabling everyone in your company to make better decisions based on accurate information.

First we focus on what it will take to provide access to the information you need—whenever, wherever, and however you need it. Then we design the solution, implement the architecture, and select the software and hardware required to get the job done. The end result is a BI solution that will enhance your business success today and in the future.

Learn how ASD can help AS/400 users gain better access to iSeries data with a new tool - BI Express, that quickly, easily, and affordably automates data capture and movement.

Read the online My i.NET article discussing our BI Express implementation at Fabick CAT.

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Learn how ASD has helped their clients get access to the right data, at the right time and in the right format. Check the customer case study links below to learn more:

> Grimco, Inc.
> St. Louis Zoo
> Parkway School District

View the video presentation of our BI case study, prepared by Microsoft.

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	Roll over the services for descriptions below. Business Intelligence Executive Scorecards and Dashboards Query and Data Analysis Enterprise Reporting Data Mining and Statistical Analysis Desktop Integration ASD BI Quick-Start

	Business intelligence allows companies to sort through the daily flood of data to better understand customer and partner relationships, as well as Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). By translating this understanding into action, companies derive significant benefits in the form of increased profits, an improved ability to take advantage of new opportunities, and the ability to respond more quickly to changing market demand. Today, a new generation of integrated solutions puts the power of business intelligence within reach of organizations of every size. Our focus is to provide BI solutions that give you a competitive advantage by allowing you to unlock the power of your data. By implementing the following solutions, you can make course-changing decisions in minutes or hours, rather than weeks or months. ASD uses these Web-based tools to enable executives to easily visualize and communicate business strategies, drill down into key business data, and simplify the measurement of their KPIs. We help your organization implement a scorecard or dashboard solution to allow you to overcome the difficulties of slow, inaccurate decision making; poor visibility into corporate performance; and processes that are disconnected from strategy. This process takes large volumes of data and transforms it into business insight that can drive profitability. A wide variety of tools are available in the marketplace to allow advanced query and multi-dimensional analysis of business intelligence data. ASD helps you select the tools best designed to meet your end users’ needs. More importantly, we design a data model and data warehouse architecture that enhance the management, security, and performance of the selected query and data analysis tools. This offering enhances business decision making by extending information across the entire company and seamlessly to external customers, partners, and suppliers in real time. The ability to provide business reporting in a variety of formats—from traditional paper to interactive Web-based reports—complements your BI solution. ASD can transform valuable enterprise data into shared information for insightful reporting and timely decisions at a lower total cost of ownership. ASD uses state-of-the-art statistical tools and technics to help you gain new business insights and harvest valuable business intelligence from your enterprise data. Advanced data mining tools help you make insightful decisions into data—whether the problem is how to develop more precisely targeted marketing campaigns, reduce customer attrition, or increase revenue generated by Internet shopping. Today’s business intelligence systems must easily integrate into your current corporate desktop strategy. Tight integration with a broad range of desktop productivity tools and intranet applications expands the reach to significantly more employees within an organization. By integrating your business intelligence tools into existing user tools, ASD helps reduce the learning curve and exploit existing technologies and strategies while providing faster user acceptance. And a faster user acceptance means a faster return on investment. If you know that a business intelligence solution is something that your organization needs, but you don’t know where to begin, then ASD BI Quick-Start is designed just for you. In less than two weeks, using the ASD BI Quick-Start process, we identify your business need and tell you what is required to meet that need. We determine the requirements for data, end users, software and hardware; determine how to measure success; then deliver the information necessary to implement a working production environment or prototype. From a Quick-Start to a successful finish, ASD offers a comprehensive list of consulting services, including business requirements planning, architecture and design, presentation tool analysis, data model design, and project management.