Hosted Business Intelligence Solution

[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.

[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...

[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.

[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.

[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...

[DimPrawn]

Dim, I have thought this through. This is just one of many options.

The issue we have is that we have the data structures, but our own IT department is so resource constrained and so bogged down in red tape they are unable to do anything.

So Hyperion is a good example.

We're looking at certain examples, and so it's on that basis we're looking. It's the actual 'front end' we're interested in, quick to enable, easily configurable etc.

We have the schema and the dimensions, but we have been using OBI and frankly it's been a disapointment!

I only have a $2M budget Dim, so it's small potatoes for you.

Hire some Contractors FFS.

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

[TimberWolf]

fish

fry

[MarillionFan]

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

[AtW]

I only have a $2M budget Dim, so it's small potatoes for you.

fish

[MarillionFan]

Dim, I have thought this through. This is just one of many options.

The issue we have is that we have the data structures, but our own IT department is so resource constrained and so bogged down in red tape they are unable to do anything.

So Hyperion is a good example.

We're looking at certain examples, and so it's on that basis we're looking. It's the actual 'front end' we're interested in, quick to enable, easily configurable etc.

We have the schema and the dimensions, but we have been using OBI and frankly it's been a disapointment!

I only have a $2M budget Dim, so it's small potatoes for you.

[oracleslave]

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?

I suggest you consider Hyperion. If you are open to that then I'll PM the consultancy I would recommend.

[DimPrawn]

Any of the large data hosting and support companies can do this for you, the likes of IBM, Unisys and CSC can do the development required too, I'm sure there are dozens of others.

Yes any of the big consulting companies can do this for you. For £1500/day you can choose between a recent grad with no experience or some bloke in India, who will have changed jobs by the end of the month.

HTH

[TykeMerc]

Any of the large data hosting and support companies can do this for you, the likes of IBM, Unisys and CSC can do the development required too, I'm sure there are dozens of others.

[DimPrawn]

1. Sounds Technical, this is General

2. Who is going to develop the OLAP cubes, maintain the datawarehouse, create the pivot tables, reports etc?

3. If you just want a server to host your SQL Server Analysis Services and SQL Server Reporting Services then almost any dedicated Windows host will do


You haven't really thought this through as usual have you?

[MarillionFan]

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?