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Effective decisions require Superior Business Intelligence.
Superior Consulting Services
Superior Consulting Services (SCS) is a leader in
business intelligence consulting in the Twin Cities area
and across the country. Using Microsoft database and
business intelligence tools, SCS provides best-in-class
data warehouse, reporting and data mining solutions.
SCS’ business intelligence solutions are led by Practice
Manager Brian Larson, a nationally recognized authority
on business intelligence and the author of Microsoft
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and Delivering
Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2008, both from
McGraw-Hill Professional.
SCS is committed to providing quality business
intelligence services and solutions that empower your
decision makers with the reliable information needed to
develop and make informed strategic and tactical business
decisions improving your performance and profitability.
Whether you are looking for a team to create a business
intelligence solution for your organization, a specialist to
augment your BI personnel, or an experienced instructor
to provide training or mentoring services, SCS will
provide your organization with the tools it needs for
effective decision making.
Improving Your Performance and Profitability
Business Intelligence (BI) requires information to be
in the right place at the right time. Is your company’s
critical business data accurate and easily accessible?
Or is it spread across multiple systems and even
multiple locations? Can it be delivered to decision
makers in easy-to-understand and user-friendly formats?
Or is it trapped in endless rows and columns of numbers
on green-bar reports?
In today’s highly competitive and ever-changing
business landscape, the critical activities that drive
business success—strategic planning, goal setting and
effective decision making—require immediate access
to relevant, accurate enterprise-wide data. That’s where
Superior Consulting Services comes in.
Superior Consulting Services’ industry-recognized
team of BI experts delivers first-class data warehouse,
reporting and data analysis solutions that enable
organizations to perform at a higher level by leveraging
the right information to do the right things.
Challenging times require
effective decisions.
Effective decisions require
Superior Business Intelligence.
Empower your team to make smart decisions
driven by analytical insight at their point
of maximum impact—accelerating the
speed of effective decision-making.
200 West Highway 13, Suite 210
Burnsville, MN 55337
P: 952.890.0606, F: 952.890.2392
[email protected]
www.teamscs.com
© 2009 Superior Consulting Services. All Rights Reserved.
Creating a Single Source of Truth
Success in harnessing the power of business intelligence
requires data quality and easy access to actionable
information. However, if your organization is like most,
your data is spread across multiple, disparate systems
making it cumbersome and potentially unreliable.
SCS empowers organizations to realize true enterprise-
wide business intelligence. We partner with clients in the
development of data marts or a single data warehouse to
bring key metrics and information together in a central
location. Using the speed and power of Microsoft SQL
Server Integration Services, SCS extracts data from lines
of business systems, transforms it to ensure accuracy and
consistency, and loads it into a single location for analysis
and reporting.
BI in Action:
Making the Grade at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School
When Vanderbilt sought to consolidate data from multiple
current and legacy systems into a central data warehouse,
the school relied on the expertise of SCS to successfully
complete the initiative.
“Our work with SCS enabled us to consolidate
admissions data from three different systems and
connect that data with information from yet another
set of three different career placement systems. The
ability to bring all that data together, look at trends,
compare performance year-to-year and perform adhoc
investigations, enables us to make fact-based decisions
to improve performance in the future.”
– Jason Reusch, Captain, Technology Productivity Services
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Effective decisions result from information collected to create a single source of truth that can be
quickly aggregated for easy exploration and analysis. That’s Superior Business Intelligence.
Providing Efficient Aggregation
The need to facilitate meaningful business intelligence
from the vast amounts of data in today’s enterprise
systems is an ongoing challenge. In the typical business
data system, information from millions of individual
transactions must be aggregated to facilitate significant
analysis. However, large-scale aggregation can be slow
and unwieldy in relational database engines.
SCS uses Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services to
facilitate the querying and analysis of aggregate data.
With Microsoft Analysis Services’ ability to store
preprocessed aggregates of data and optimize data
retrieval, an extremely large data warehouse can be tamed
to allow effective reporting and even interactive analysis.
As a result, organizations are enabled to build the
business intelligence capabilities needed to remain
competitive in today's tough business environment.
BI in Action:
Analyzing the Search at SearchAmerica
When SearchAmerica sought to provide reports and
dashboards from tens of millions of rows of data to their
clients in a timely, dynamic manner, they turned to SCS.
The scalable solution designed and built by SCS provides
high performance data interaction within SearchAmerica
and externally to its clients. SCS is expanding this
solution by incorporating terabytes of additional data to
provide even greater value to SearchAmerica clients.
“The expertise provided by SCS allowed us to efficiently
handle the large volume of data required for our
reporting needs. This solution has increased client
satisfaction and given us a competitive edge.”
– Steven Johnson, CTO/VP of Product Development
SearchAmerica
Facilitating Effective Exploration and Analysis
Finding the right information amongst all your business
data can be a time consuming and difficult challenge.
You need to go beyond static, numeric reports. You need
data brought to life with gauges and charts. You need
interactivity to drill into detail—exploring anomalies and
searching for patterns and trends.
SCS leverages Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
to create reports and dashboards containing a wide
variety of chart and gauge formats to distill meaning
from amid the clutter. Microsoft Reporting Services and
Microsoft SharePoint allow users to interact with the
data turning information into answers.
BI in Action:
Taking Care of Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare
SCS worked closely with Gillette to develop reports
which clearly and concisely deliver business information.
These reports provided summarized information for ease
of analysis, and facilitated drill-down and drill-through
capabilities to allow for true interactivity. In addition,
SCS developed a custom reporting portal to facilitate
reporting and analysis throughout the enterprise.
SCS helped jump start our data warehouse and
reporting initiative by working with our team to install
and configure Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. By
providing reporting and data mining tools to the end
user, we were able to extend the life on applications that
do not provide robust internal reporting functionality.
– Jennifer Fall, CIO
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
doc_781391608.pdf
Effective decisions require Superior Business Intelligence.
Superior Consulting Services
Superior Consulting Services (SCS) is a leader in
business intelligence consulting in the Twin Cities area
and across the country. Using Microsoft database and
business intelligence tools, SCS provides best-in-class
data warehouse, reporting and data mining solutions.
SCS’ business intelligence solutions are led by Practice
Manager Brian Larson, a nationally recognized authority
on business intelligence and the author of Microsoft
SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services and Delivering
Business Intelligence with SQL Server 2008, both from
McGraw-Hill Professional.
SCS is committed to providing quality business
intelligence services and solutions that empower your
decision makers with the reliable information needed to
develop and make informed strategic and tactical business
decisions improving your performance and profitability.
Whether you are looking for a team to create a business
intelligence solution for your organization, a specialist to
augment your BI personnel, or an experienced instructor
to provide training or mentoring services, SCS will
provide your organization with the tools it needs for
effective decision making.
Improving Your Performance and Profitability
Business Intelligence (BI) requires information to be
in the right place at the right time. Is your company’s
critical business data accurate and easily accessible?
Or is it spread across multiple systems and even
multiple locations? Can it be delivered to decision
makers in easy-to-understand and user-friendly formats?
Or is it trapped in endless rows and columns of numbers
on green-bar reports?
In today’s highly competitive and ever-changing
business landscape, the critical activities that drive
business success—strategic planning, goal setting and
effective decision making—require immediate access
to relevant, accurate enterprise-wide data. That’s where
Superior Consulting Services comes in.
Superior Consulting Services’ industry-recognized
team of BI experts delivers first-class data warehouse,
reporting and data analysis solutions that enable
organizations to perform at a higher level by leveraging
the right information to do the right things.
Challenging times require
effective decisions.
Effective decisions require
Superior Business Intelligence.
Empower your team to make smart decisions
driven by analytical insight at their point
of maximum impact—accelerating the
speed of effective decision-making.
200 West Highway 13, Suite 210
Burnsville, MN 55337
P: 952.890.0606, F: 952.890.2392
[email protected]
www.teamscs.com
© 2009 Superior Consulting Services. All Rights Reserved.
Creating a Single Source of Truth
Success in harnessing the power of business intelligence
requires data quality and easy access to actionable
information. However, if your organization is like most,
your data is spread across multiple, disparate systems
making it cumbersome and potentially unreliable.
SCS empowers organizations to realize true enterprise-
wide business intelligence. We partner with clients in the
development of data marts or a single data warehouse to
bring key metrics and information together in a central
location. Using the speed and power of Microsoft SQL
Server Integration Services, SCS extracts data from lines
of business systems, transforms it to ensure accuracy and
consistency, and loads it into a single location for analysis
and reporting.
BI in Action:
Making the Grade at Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School
When Vanderbilt sought to consolidate data from multiple
current and legacy systems into a central data warehouse,
the school relied on the expertise of SCS to successfully
complete the initiative.
“Our work with SCS enabled us to consolidate
admissions data from three different systems and
connect that data with information from yet another
set of three different career placement systems. The
ability to bring all that data together, look at trends,
compare performance year-to-year and perform adhoc
investigations, enables us to make fact-based decisions
to improve performance in the future.”
– Jason Reusch, Captain, Technology Productivity Services
Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
Effective decisions result from information collected to create a single source of truth that can be
quickly aggregated for easy exploration and analysis. That’s Superior Business Intelligence.
Providing Efficient Aggregation
The need to facilitate meaningful business intelligence
from the vast amounts of data in today’s enterprise
systems is an ongoing challenge. In the typical business
data system, information from millions of individual
transactions must be aggregated to facilitate significant
analysis. However, large-scale aggregation can be slow
and unwieldy in relational database engines.
SCS uses Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services to
facilitate the querying and analysis of aggregate data.
With Microsoft Analysis Services’ ability to store
preprocessed aggregates of data and optimize data
retrieval, an extremely large data warehouse can be tamed
to allow effective reporting and even interactive analysis.
As a result, organizations are enabled to build the
business intelligence capabilities needed to remain
competitive in today's tough business environment.
BI in Action:
Analyzing the Search at SearchAmerica
When SearchAmerica sought to provide reports and
dashboards from tens of millions of rows of data to their
clients in a timely, dynamic manner, they turned to SCS.
The scalable solution designed and built by SCS provides
high performance data interaction within SearchAmerica
and externally to its clients. SCS is expanding this
solution by incorporating terabytes of additional data to
provide even greater value to SearchAmerica clients.
“The expertise provided by SCS allowed us to efficiently
handle the large volume of data required for our
reporting needs. This solution has increased client
satisfaction and given us a competitive edge.”
– Steven Johnson, CTO/VP of Product Development
SearchAmerica
Facilitating Effective Exploration and Analysis
Finding the right information amongst all your business
data can be a time consuming and difficult challenge.
You need to go beyond static, numeric reports. You need
data brought to life with gauges and charts. You need
interactivity to drill into detail—exploring anomalies and
searching for patterns and trends.
SCS leverages Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services
to create reports and dashboards containing a wide
variety of chart and gauge formats to distill meaning
from amid the clutter. Microsoft Reporting Services and
Microsoft SharePoint allow users to interact with the
data turning information into answers.
BI in Action:
Taking Care of Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare
SCS worked closely with Gillette to develop reports
which clearly and concisely deliver business information.
These reports provided summarized information for ease
of analysis, and facilitated drill-down and drill-through
capabilities to allow for true interactivity. In addition,
SCS developed a custom reporting portal to facilitate
reporting and analysis throughout the enterprise.
SCS helped jump start our data warehouse and
reporting initiative by working with our team to install
and configure Microsoft SQL Reporting Services. By
providing reporting and data mining tools to the end
user, we were able to extend the life on applications that
do not provide robust internal reporting functionality.
– Jennifer Fall, CIO
Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare
doc_781391608.pdf