How do you leverage the investment you made in your ERP so that it truly serves your business needs?

Regardless of the industry that a company operates in, certain questions about it need to be answered. These questions, as well as their answers, help decide the direction of the company. This is a crucial step in moving the business forward.

Heavy investments by companies in their ERP applications over the last decade have resulted in volumes of data being captured in disparate systems and companies continue to capture more information than even before. These systems are siloed and information is fragmented making a single view representation and analysis of enterprise data critical for business growth. That's where companies can leverage our expertise.

The CedarCrestone Business Intelligence Advantage

CedarCrestone Business Intelligence (BI) provides our clients with a competitive advantage: our industry-specific experience combined with our deep knowledge of ERP applications positions us to help you make critical connections between your business needs, your systems and your information needs.

Our Business Intelligence/Data Warehouse practice has extensive experience with a broad set of solutions including reporting applications, real-time integration, information delivery, business process automation, portals, dashboards and advanced analytics. They fully understand the unique business issues and concerns that drive the industries we serve.

Our Industry Experience

CedarCrestone Business Intelligence has developed significant expertise in a number of niches including Higher Education, Energy & Utilities, and Healthcare organizations.

We are working in close partnership with companies in these industries not only to develop custom BI solutions but also to expand the standard business intelligence application's built-in capabilities to meet the unique needs of these industries. As a result, we have come to appreciate and understand the key variables that drive performance and have designed relevant sets of key performance indicators (KPIs) for each industry. We then incorporated industry-specific metrics into business intelligence solution offerings for higher education, utilities and healthcare organizations.

See our Client Success Stories for examples of these offerings.

Our Services

The following are the services and solutions that CedarCrestone offers clients so they can rapidly achieve the benefits of deploying BI in their environment.

• Creating a strategic plan that maps your vision with the right technologies
• Creating key performance indicators (KPI)
• Reporting, monitoring and measuring business performance
• Harnessing information to deliver intelligence for faster decision-making
• Combining multiple data sources into a meaningful final representation for data analysis (ETL)
• Correctly designing integration hubs to support compliance activities (ETL)
• Analytics and data mining (A/DM)
• Online analytical processing
• Delivering information to the desktop via search engines
• Provision of information across the entire Internet or Intranet

Solutions we support

• Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
• Oracle Business Intelligence Analytics (OBIA)
• Hyperion
• EPM (data warehouse)

Training

We will train your IT staff to manage and maintain the solution or product once we are gone. We also provide user training as part of the implementation process.

Bottom-Line Benefits

• Faster decision-making and improved planning
• Increased operational performance through managing to KPIs
• Accurate information across the enterprise—a single version of truth
• Distributed access to mission-critical data
• Automated budget planning and processing