The smart way to make your data come alive

Microsoft Business Intelligence

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Why invest in a BI solution?

Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) provides a brand new view of

corporate data, making your important data relevant, immediate

and actionable.

Most corporate data sits in numerous systems from transactions

and interactions with customers, staff and partners. But this data

often isn’t stored the way you want to report on it. You need the

right information at the right time, in the right form to empower

confident decision making. That’s what BI does.

Business Intelligence makes your data come alive. It highlights

areas of strength and weakness, and shows you what needs

immediate attention. BI presents information graphically and

attractively, cutting through to the key issues, enabling you to

take control of any business situation.

Microsoft’s BI tools heavily leverage Excel, making it easy to work

with familiar business applications, empower end users with self-

service analysis and interactive data visualisation.

There are a number of business benefits for considering

Microsoft BI:

• Ability to easily create custom reports with PowerView

• Access to simple, self-service reporting tools

• A single, unified view of your aggregated data

• Increased productivity from users being able to focus on

better customer service

• Can be scaled gradually from personal BI solutions to team

based collaborative platforms, and finally to Enterprise

level solutions

• Enterprise solutions formally address Master Data

Management and Data Quality improvement with business

user focused tools

• Integration with both Microsoft and non-Microsoft products

Benefits of Business Intelligence

Microsoft Business Intelligence

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NEC – at the forefront of BI Our customer successes

NEC Australia is one of the largest and most experienced

Microsoft BI providers in Australia. Our expertise spans a

variety of best of breed business intelligence technologies, an

approach that gives us the ability to confidently advise you on

the best-fit solution for your varying needs.

We base our development approach and designs on the proven

Kimball Methodology, an independent framework for BI and

data warehousing implementations. We use this methodology

to identify the appropriate tool and develop the best-fit solution

for your business. Our training and certification across these

applications and platforms enables us to fully understand real-

world strengths and weaknesses, so you can use BI to take

action – now.

NEC is a leader in building Microsoft BI solutions for

our customers within Australia. One such success is our

work with Terry Truck Rentals (TTR Hertz).

• TTR Hertz recognised it needed to support its

business and staff with an advanced, integrated

technology platform to monitor and analyse ERP and

external data in a unified fashion.

NEC was engaged to deliver an intelligent, integrated

solution that could be used by staff at all levels.

Microsoft Business Intelligence was included in

the scope to provide end-to-end reporting via a

simple dashboard interface. Income and expenditure

reporting to and from head office and the branches

is greatly improved by the new BI functionality.

The management team can now build queries

and automate elements of TTR Hertz’ reporting

requirements which previously had been developed

within the manual boundaries of Excel spread sheets.