Customer and operational data from multiple sources continues to flow into the organisation with ever-increasing volume and speed. More then ever, organisations are turning to Business Intelligence solutions to help transfer their data into meaningful information.    

Customer and operational data from multiple sources continues to flow into the organisation with ever-increasing volume and speed. More then ever, organisations are turning to Business Intelligence solutions to help transfer their data into meaningful information.

Tighter margins, increased competition, greater regulations and the current business climate increase the necessity for greater visibility to make faster, more accurate business decisions. The increased emphasis on monitoring performance means that organisations should be able to quickly access, organise and compile data from different systems and applications using simple desktop and browser tools.

Tx3 Solutions provides clients with Business Intelligence solutions matched to your requirements. Our approach is different as we use any combination of our OfficeConnect software, and the standard components of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Framework. This provides clients with customisable solutions that are not hard coded, but fully configurable. By using Microsoft’s BI Framework, we can offer clients cost-effective solutions that leverage existing applications and IT infrastructure, eliminate many of the barriers to entry, and deliver the end results that really matter.

Traditionally, the implementation of Business Intelligence solutions has been associated with high costs, lengthy deployment cycles and significant investments in hardware, software and training. However, by using the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, information analysis is no longer restricted by company size, business sector or market sectors.

Reporting - relational reporting, with built in templates supporting financial and operational analysis

*OLAP Query and Analysis - *OLAP cubing and reporting enabling users to easily and selectively extract and view information from different perspectives.

Office Web Components - enabling reporting and analytics into Microsoft Excel.

Strategy Maps, Scorecards - for compiling and visualising information

Dashboards and Document Management - Through the usage of SharePoint, information is centralised and accessible.


*OLAP

OLAP (online analytical processing) is computer processing that enables a user to easily and selectively extract and view information from different perspectives. For example, a user can request that data be analysed and compared over different products, regions and periods. To facilitate this kind of analysis, OLAP data is stored in a multidimensional database. Whereas a relational database can be thought of as two-dimensional, a multidimensional database considers each data attribute (such as product, geographic sales region, and time period) as a separate "dimension." OLAP software can locate the intersection of dimensions (all products sold in one region at a certain price during a certain time period) and display them. Attributes such as time periods can be broken down into sub-attributes.

OLAP can also be used for identifying undiscerned relationships between data items. An OLAP database does not need to be a data warehouse ( a central repository for all or significant parts of the data that an enterprise's various business systems collect), since not all transactional data is needed for trend analysis. By using Open Database Connectivity (ODBC - an open standard application programming interface (API) for accessing a database), data can be imported from existing relational databases to create a multidimensional database for OLAP.