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Emerging Technologies

Innovation
Do you have what it takes to out-think, out-hustle and out-perform your competitors? Gaining and retaining competitive advantage requires continuous business process improvement and IT innovation. Often, that means combining the power of existing technologies in ways that heighten performance, improve customer interaction and differentiate service. The new technologies in the BI World are: Mobile and Search.

Mobile Business Intelligence gives organizations the power to build a dynamic computing environment that extends the value of business information through mobile access, query and analysis.

BI Search capability gives everyday users a self-service way to find important BI information using the application or device most convenient to them, including Web portals, search interfaces like Google, Microsoft® Office, or mobile devices.

Our Offerings:
Our consultants apply best practices – learned from deploying BI systems at Global 1000 organizations – to quickly and effectively introduce new technology to your organization. We draw upon our experience to help you succeed and take advantage of the powerful new capabilities of new technology in the shortest possible time with full user adoption.

Rapid Go! Mobile Package: Mobile Business Intelligence gives organizations the power to: Integrate workers into every business process, where they can monitor, manage and analyze information and identify trends, problems and opportunities - anytime, anywhere. Turn operational data into role-specific knowledge that supports timely, effective business decisions. Rapid Go! Mobile package: This package has it all to get started on your Mobile BI experience. This two week engagement includes:

Assessment of your environment for mobile readiness
Installation and configuration of the Go! Mobile environment
Assessment of executive readiness of the reports for mobile consumption
Enable 2-3 reports on your mobile device Setup Go! Mobile client on user's mobile devices like Blackberry and Treo
Knowledge transfer to Mobile administrators to manage the new application

Rapid Go! Search Package BI search capability enables your organization to reduce duplication of report authoring efforts, combine knowledge assets with performance information to enable better decisions and a more comprehensive view of information and provide faster and easier access to the most relevant reports and analytics.
Rapid Go! Search package: This package provides a quick start to leveraging the power of Go! Search. This two week engagement includes:

Assessment of your environment for Go! Search readiness
Capacity planning for the Go! search capability
Installation and configuration of the Go! Search environment
Enablement of a metadata model and a package/cube reports
Roadmap for integrating with 3rd party search engines like Google.