Vision - Business Intelligence Toolkit
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Choose the level that meets your requirements:
Bronze – keeping things simple
An inexpensive, easy-to use reporting tool, Destin’s BRONZE solution provides your report developers with a simplified view of your systems’ data to work with.
Your developers’ time is saved because they don’t have to learn to find their own way around the complex structure of your IT systems’ databases – this has been done for them. Developers can better spend their time designing reports exactly as users need them.
Reports can be made available to your staff through an intranet site, or you can have them delivered directly to users’ inboxes.
The solution, using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), provides an easily navigable ‘Business Intelligence Portal’ too. The Portal helps staff to find the reports they need really quickly, provides help and guidance, and ensures everyone is using the service to its full potential.
Silver – pooling information from various sources
Here’s a perfect answer to the problem of bringing together information that is spread across different systems, spreadsheets and databases.
It’s important for you to have a complete overview of your services’ performance, but inevitably the answers to your performance questions lie in a number of places. When you consolidate the information into reports yourself, it’s costly, error prone and slow. As you summarise the information, you can no longer see potentially important details.
Destin’s SILVER solution uses Microsoft SQL Server products to retrieve, ‘clean’ and store information from various sources on a daily basis, and present it in a simplified structure for reporting upon. The data is retrieved at the finest possible level, and includes historical information (often unavailable or difficult to access in operational systems). This allows maximum flexibility in how the data is stored, so that it is truly useful information.
Key performance indicators, created from multiple data sources, are calculated nightly - so it is blisteringly quick and user friendly.
Gold – Powerful analysis
Destin’s GOLD solution is for people who are not satisfied with knowing how they are performing – they want to know ‘why?’. The solution allows you to analyse your stored data at any time, drilling down to the root causes of performance problems and anomalies. This needs greater flexibility, speed and navigational ability than standard reporting tools allow - because of the vast amounts of information you need to browse across.
Destin GOLD solution uses Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) to enable you to investigate relationships within your stored information. This is the ‘Analysis Layer’. Then, Microsoft applications such as Sharepoint and/or Excel provide simple ways to navigate the data, and present it providing context, relevance and visualization of the data.
The Analysis Layer also allows extremely tight security, so that information can be restricted to those who need to see it.
Platinum - Ultimate Business Intelligence
Here’s your solution if you want to know that every member of staff in the team has the detailed information they need about performance.
Using Microsoft technologies, Destin Solutions will deliver a ‘Balanced Scorecard’ to every individual for a fixed annual fee. The recipient can drill down and find out the true reasons behind their performance figures.
The beauty of this package is that you can change your mind about your reporting requirements as many times as you like - we are committed to reflecting those changes for you, at no extra cost. For a Business Intelligence solution to really work for you, it must be driven by your business needs, and no other consideration. With Destin’s Platinum package you are not constrained – you know your reporting needs will change as your priorities shift.
Read about how Dumfries & Galloway Council are using this solution
