Flexible Services that Deliver the Benefits of Business Intelligence Applications

Business Intelligence or OLAP applications can help your organization:

• Reduce cycle time for reporting and analysis
• Reduce manual re-keying of data and associated errors
• Reduce the volume of reports generated by providing interactive, up-to-date information on-demand
• Understand financial drivers, track key performance indicators, ask and answer unforeseen questions to improve overall business performance
• Spot patterns in your business activity that can represent opportunities for increased profitability

To deliver those benefits, General Analytics provides the following BI-related services, in combination or singly:

• Organizational readiness assessment - we can help you determine objectively where your organization stands on the readiness spectrum. Addressing this issue explicitly is a simple insurance policy for the success of the project. An assessment project includes a practical plan to achieve readiness, if needed.
• Business requirements analysis - we work systematically with all stakeholders to create a clearly defined vision of success.
• Software product evaluation and selection - we cut through competing software sales claims to help you determine a short list of choices and their real implications for your organization. We are completely independent of any software vendor, accepting no commissions on our recommendations, so we serve your interests, not the software vendors'.
• Prototyping and proof of concept - we ensure that all key function points can be successfully implemented with the selected tools. You avoid surprises - missing or unusable product features - and their costs, both in software and time.
• Application design and implementation - we design based on detailed definition of required functions and intimate knowledge of the technology, making implementation a smooth, predictable process.
• Performance optimization - our technical specialty is Essbase performance optimization. We are often able to produce dramatic performance improvements, even after other "experts" have given up. We literally wrote the book on Essbase performance optimization, having developed the original optimization course material used in Hyperion's Essbase Advanced Bootcamp.
• Application and technical training from developers to end users - Business Intelligence delivers on its promises when it becomes an ongoing part of the organization. High-quality training is key to allowing your internal staff to be effective in evolving the BI application.
• Rescuing troubled projects - it's even more important to have a specialist on the team when you're starting in the middle. We can reexamine the project's objectives, schedules, and plans and do what's needed to get it back on a realistic track in the most economical and timely way possible.