Hosted Business Intelligence Solution

[AtW]

Give it up, the cold war is over.

Holy ****, is it?

Someone tell it to mr Putin, just don't take the tea if he offers you...

[MarillionFan]

Hire some Contractors FFS.

$2M wouldn't even cover the cost of the PPT slides from a consultancy.

Thats one of my options. I have five reqs out with agents at the moment.

[DimPrawn]

Thats one of my options. I have five reqs out with agents at the moment.

Why involve agents? Hire directly. FFS, agents add no value whatsoever.

[ratewhore]

AtW. Give it up, the cold war is over. You can eat potatoes again comrade!

Aye, and according to the Times inflation basket, they're actually cheaper now...

[Bumfluff]

Can anyone recommend any companies/consultancies(big or small) they know of who could provide a hosted BI Solution.

Basically it's a mixture of forecasting, order management, service contracts, licensing, products, customers etc all linked together by Dunn and Bradstreet data.

We have the data but not the tools to present it in an OLAP/Cube/Flash reporting solution, so looking for an 'out of the box' hosted solution.

Any ideas?

Thought about Business Objects at all ? There web based interface 'Infoview' can be used to do all kind of reporting directly from OLAP cubes, ad-hoc reporting, Crystal Reports, analytics, dash boards and of course bogo standard Business Objects reports. If you source data is not to complex you could get something up and running in days or at least I could Business Objects would charge you around £1500-£2000 for a noddy consultant but you can pick up the cream of BO contractors for £500-£600 aday, for that you would get someone who do all the work from installing / configuring the app, to developing / building the reports.