Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is software that supports decision making by using data analysis. Local government handles a great amount and variety of data which not only can, but should be analyzed. This is important both for generating reports and for progressing towards the ideal of the intelligent office. Business intelligence concerns not only forecasting but also up-to-the-minute reporting and the monitoring of the work that goes on in local government.

Business Intelligence for local government is an opportunity for a revolution in local government’s approach to decision making. It has the great advantage of collecting all the data together in one place and making it almost instantly available in the form of straightforward analytical and reporting operations. The system is limited analytically only by the data available at the local government level.

These are the major areas covered by Business Intelligence for local government:

General Uses

Business Intelligence software is particularly effective where local government manages high data volumes and has a large number of systems or locations.

A Comprehensive Solution

We offer comprehensive Business Intelligence project roll-outs covering business analyses, designing and building data warehouses, ETL procedures (Extraction, Transfer, Loading), selecting, supplying, integrating and implementing data access tools, and preparing reports analyses and statistics including data mining.

Quality

The high quality of the Business Intelligence projects is ensured by using DWM (Data Warehouse Method) methodology, which assists in conducting all data warehouse construction processes.

Analysis

The analytical functions in Business Intelligence projects first of all carry out the basic reporting functions required by the majority of the organization’s users. Next, there are the more complex Business Intelligence subsystems that use statistics packages or data visualization applications designed for specialist analysts. The most advanced users receive specialist applications from leading producers of data mining class Business Intelligence software. This can be used to construct sophisticated predictive models based on neural networks or decision trees.

Metadata

An important element in a system of this type is the central metadata repository that ensures contextualization in business intelligence terms so that the data being processed is correctly understood and effectively used. Access to data must always be possible via the same business metadata no matter which tools are used to prepare the reports or analyses.