While an effective data warehousing program plays a central role in the promises of BI, it is not a prerequisite to getting started.  BI is primarily about getting the right information in the hands of the right people at the right time.  Decision Source has a proven track record of helping companies of all sizes walk down the path to BI success through:

• Web Portals - Today, like many other corporate applications, BI delivery is often delivered in a web front-end.  Our portal solutions allow you to centrally manage your BI environment in a true zero client footprint allowing you to focus on information delivery, not application support.
• Scorecards - Scorecards and dashboards are a common component in most Corporate Performance Management initiatives.  Scorecards provide an intuitive mechanism for managing key performance indicators at all levels of your organization.
• Dashboards - Dashboards provide a graphical starting point for quickly assessing managed points of your enterprise.  Very often, dashboards also have built in capability to drill into more specific information such as reports, OLAP cubes, or other BU related content.
• OLAP - On line analytical processing.  OLAP provide the analyst the opportunity to drill up, down and across in pre-aggregated data cubes to rapidly find trends and get the answers to many high to moderate-level questions.  Like dashboards, cubes often have the capability to navigate from a given data intersection into a detailed report to see the detailed factors that generated the located trend.
• Reporting - Reporting is probably the most basic aspect of a BI delivery system.  Unlike spreadsheets that must be compiled each time, reports pull their data from operational or warehouse sources and can be run at will, scheduled, and published for viewing by other team members.
• Notifications - BI is at its core a self service delivery platform.  However, many organizations find it helpful to be able to define conditions that will generate a notification when they occur.  For example, notify a manager when inventory levels for widget X reach a set level.  Notifications allow users to react before problems occur instead of reacting after the fact.

Whether you are looking for a custom developed solution or a commercial product implementation, Decision Source has the right combination of development and services expertise coupled with strategic industry relationships to guide and partner with your company through all phases of a BI program.