As business and revenue grew, Graham-Field's decision-makers and their supporting staff labored over nearly 300 different reports from disparate systems. Oftentimes the reports were built manually using Microsoft Access and Excel and, as a result, highly susceptible to calculation errors. In addition, the company's reporting solution made it difficult for users to locate information, required a significant number of resources, and took several weeks to generate financial and sales reports at the close of every quarter, severely delaying decision-making processes.
Realizing that their current solution would no longer sustain future growth, Graham-Field partnered with Intellinet for a more robust Business Intelligence (BI) solution that would bring clarity to the company's increasing amounts of data and extract the actionable information needed to steer operational success. To lay the foundation, Graham-Field and Intellinet assessed the company's current business health and strategically road mapped an iterative approach to implement a BI solution-including Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007-that would be flexible enough to grow with the business. With the right BI solution in place, Graham-Field:
* Spends more time growing the business and less time on redundant, manual tasks * Possesses the insight needed to trend and compare financial data with customer purchasing habits over various spans of time-a task that was previously unachievable-to reduce costs and uncover new business opportunities
More than just corporate reporting and a set of tools to extract data from enterprise systems, leading-edge organizations are using BI to make better decisions, faster.
" The majority of our infrastructure to date runs on the Microsoft platform, so from a cost perspective, PerformancePoint Server 2007 just made sense. Intellinet then enabled us to reap the value of this solution by taking the time to understand our business, to uncover industry drivers, to develop a complete solution, and to decisively execute our plans."
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