Collier & Associates
Making Companies More Profitable
Business Intelligence Microsoft SQL Server & Business Intelligence Platform Currently, Collier & Associates uses Microsofts' SQL Server and Business Intelligence Platform to integrate, clean, massage, and mine disparate datasets (e.g. ERP systems, Excel spreadsheets, COTS packages, legacy systems, lab systems, billing systems, XML files, EDI files, Access, Oracle DB, DB2 DB, etc.) for the sole purpose of extrapolating valuable business information. Please review the following sections below to discern how BI can be used on a departmental basis, or for specific industry sectors. Sales: Your sales force deals with opportunities across multiple channels while facing increasing competition and pricing pressure. The demanding sales goals that have added layers to your team's ability to achieve your numbers are equally challenging. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help you pinpoint your best targets, increase customer profitability, and ultimately hit your quota. With the proliferation of new sales channels, your company needs visibility into what's happening out in the field more than ever. Your pipeline, opportunities, upcoming campaigns, discounts, and win/loss analysis all require quick action. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help by linking the information in your CRM system to your business intelligence environment. With Microsoft business intelligence solutions, you and your sales team can: • Build deeper customer relationships and spend more time on the opportunities that matter most. • Identify customer profitability and buying behaviors. • Focus sales efforts to align with the corporate targets by tracking team and individual performance. • Respond to fast-moving competitive environments. Operations: Every day your employees interpret and deliver operational information to co-workers, customers, partners, and suppliers. By empowering your staff to regularly track and report what is actually happening across your business, you can help your company become more responsive and competitive. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can transform valuable enterprise data into shared information that can help your organization make insightful, timely decisions at a lower total cost of ownership. With Microsoft business intelligence solutions, operations managers can: • Monitor operational performance across multiple information sources. • Support quality initiatives such as Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma. • Accurately forecast demand and align resources more effectively. • Measure and manage vendor performance. • Improve stock availability and reduce stock outs. • Analyze distribution costs. • Identify inefficient processes in production, customer service, and order processing. Finance: In today's finance world, the information you need is spread across many different systems and in different formats. You are dealing with next quarter's numbers, profitability analysis and the financial tasks of counting revenue, collecting on accounts receivables, and paying your vendors. Current methods can be error prone, labor intensive, and not always aligned to your corporate goals and objectives. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can support these challenges by helping you: • Align key performance indicators to organizational strategy • Monitor key financial metrics with dashboards and scorecards such as cash flow, accounts receivables and payables, and profitability • Minimize manual financial processes and error prone spreadsheets • Enable organizational transparency to meet compliance requirements Manufacturing: Stay ahead of the curve by increasing value to your customers, responding to changes in the market more quickly, launching new product sooner, and maintaining high quality standards. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help your organization overcome business challenges such as operation demand, supply chain visibility and response time, regulatory compliance, connection with suppliers and customers, and overall performance. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help your organization by providing: • Supply chain visibility - Monitor scorecards across the extended supply chain disparate data sources. • Supply chain collaboration - Work more effectively across all aspects of your supply chain with integrated business intelligence and collaboration to enable better business communication and collaborative process workflows. • Supply chain processes - Drive management, sales and operations business processes, delivered with an integrated business intelligence and collaboration framework. Hospitals and Healthcare Systems: Stay ahead of the curve by increasing value to your customers, responding to changes in the market more quickly, launching new product sooner, and maintaining high quality standards. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help your organization overcome business challenges such as operation demand, supply chain visibility and response time, regulatory compliance, connection with suppliers and customers, and overall performance. Microsoft business intelligence solutions can help your organization by providing: • Supply chain visibility - Monitor scorecards across the extended supply chain disparate data sources. • Supply chain collaboration - Work more effectively across all aspects of your supply chain with integrated business intelligence and collaboration to enable better business communication and collaborative process workflows. • Supply chain processes - Drive management, sales and operations business processes, delivered with an integrated business intelligence and collaboration framework. Higher Education: Education institutions need to efficiently budget, plan, track and disclose financial and operating results from ERP and other legacy systems. With Microsoft business intelligence solutions, you can provide everyone in your institution with the right information to make decisions - enabling cost-effective ways for all of your users to access and analyze information using many of the familiar tools they use today. Microsoft BI solutions allow Higher Education institutions to: • Unlock data trapped in application silos and make it available through an integrated data warehouse • Extend the power of business intelligence from the offices of specialists into the hands of those who need to take action • Manage performance goals focus attention on the goals and strategy that matters most • Enable root-cause analysis to shift time spent accessing data to time spent analyzing your institution • Enrollment goal attainment - Make it easy to analyze recruiting and retention data, grade and graduation trends, tuition discounting programs, and other information. • Deeper program efficacy - Inform routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all business functions and disciplines with accurate, readily-available data to track the efficacy of its programs and initiatives. • Improved funding opportunities - Improve responses to legislative and grant requests, compliance with the accreditation requirements, and tracking of top alumni donors. • Increased student performance - Give faculty a clear picture of student performance at an individual or group level so they can adjust instruction accordingly. |
