BI Consulting Services

Implementing the new breed of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions requires a greater level of both business and technical skills. Extend Technologies' BI Group have specialists in three key BI consulting areas:

Busniss Intelligence Data Warehouse Consulting

Extend Technologies has an experienced SAP BI7 Data Warehouse team, with many of the team having backgrounds in SAP ERP as functional and technical consultants. The combination of extensive SAP ERP knowledge and strong BI data modelling skills have enabled the team to develop customer specific Data Warehousing solutions, following a common enterprise Data Warehousing approach.

Our Data Warehouse experience includes retail implementations with over four terabytes of data, and supply chain reporting solutions combining information from seven different ERP systems.

In addition to supporting traditional BI applications, we have also used BI7 Data Warehouse solutions as a central data hub. This provides structured data to support business processes and to interface information between systems.

BI Reporting and Visualisation Consulting

Extend Technologies' reporting and visualisation team is made up of business focused reporting analysts with skills in finance, logistics and supply chain management, supported by technical experts. Our reporting and visualisation solutions available include:

• Formatted reporting
• Self-service ad hoc reporting
• Analytical slice / dice and drill down
• Interactive dashboards and scorecards
• Option of NetWeaver, SharePoint or BusinessObjects Info View Portal
• Analytical reporting using Excel
• Live office integration into MS office products
• Reports emailed to users and available via mobile devices

Our partnerships with SAP, BusinessObjects (an SAP Company) and Microsoft ensure you get the best information delivery strategy for your business.

BI Corporate Performance Management Consulting

Our corporate performance management team are business focused BI professionals from financial backgrounds, supported by technical experts. We offer the following consulting functions in corporate performance management:

• Budgeting and forecasting
• Driver based planning
• Financial consolidations
• Strategy management, balanced scorecards
• Costing and profitability analysis