Business Intelligence
Meet Business Intelligence’s Voracious Data Demands
Business relies on business intelligence. And business intelligence relies on data. But for too long, data integration has been BI’s biggest bottleneck, giving IT a black eye with business users.
In such an environment, IT requires far more agile data integration approaches that can provide the BI agility currently constrained by traditional replication and consolidation based methods alone.
Composite Data Virtualization Solutions for Business Intelligence
Leading enterprises and government agencies rely on the Composite Data Virtualization Platform, to provide unprecedented federated access to the information required to support strategic and operational BI applications.
Composite data virtualization is a more agile, lower cost data integration approach that helps combine your complex, dispersed source data quickly and easily, often as a complement to your existing data integration methods.
Composite lets you achieve your BI objectives and deliver significant business benefits including:
- Increase Revenues – Gain faster and more complete insight into business trends and opportunities
- Improve Productivity – Ensure knowledge workers have all the business information they require across BI reporting tools
- Reduce Costs – Avoid long data integration development cycles and excess data replication
- Decrease Risk – Provide complete and proper data regardless of source format or location
- Ensure Compliance – Meet data security and other IT standards more easily
Selected Examples
- Budget vs. Actual Financial Analysis – To enable faster remediation and ensure financial control, financial analysts at a large retailer analyze daily variances using Composite data virtualization. BI reports include federated views of budget data sourced from spreadsheets and actual expenditures sourced from SAP.
- Diverse Operational Analytics – This energy firm wanted to provide oil well platform data from a central Netezza data warehouse to engineers, maintenance managers, and business analysts each requiring different slices of the data, optimally formatted for their wide range of specialized analysis tools including Business Objects, Excel, Tibco Spotfire, Matrikon ProcessNet, Microsoft Reporting and more. Using Composite data virtualization, they now provide the common views and data services required. Rapid time to data, combined with ease of abstraction (convert from warehouse-stored format to tool-required format), and lower costs encourages analysts to leverage the warehouse as the single source of truth rather that replicate and reformat the data in local, rogue data marts.
- IT Performance Management Dashboard – To gain a complete applications performance picture, IT operations managers monitor SLA and other system status metrics using Composite federated views sourced from a wide range of application management systems.
