II. ADAPTED FROM CHAPTER 3 – QUESTION NO 2, P107
1. CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. known as the largest commercial real estate services and investment company in the world. CBRE was chosen by Microsoft to increase energy efficiency across roughly 500 properties around the world. In order to collect valuable information about the operational of their properties, CBRE had spread out hundred surveys to firm’s locations, and found it was not efficient, time wasted and difficult for result evaluation. Therefore, CBRE had to create a preferable and faster way to gather and analyse the information.
Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Excel software were implemented as the new solution for CBRE, which offer services like cloud-based and
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In addition, the solution should be able to integrate data sources and confidential information from external systems, such as aeronautical system or immigration department. Therefore, the airport need to figure out a better BI tools.
However, the new solution was expected to provide data in accuracy, consistent, and traceable across multiple programs. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 were implemented to replace the previous systems and has successfully developed business agility, revenue, improve regulatory compliance and significantly decreased reporting time (“Auckland Airport,” 2014).
3. House of Travel
House of Travel is a travel company based in New Zealand offers variety travel services like flight ticket collaborate with popular airlines worldwide. In order to enhance their profitability and services to customers, managers planned to replace current hardware and operational system to a modern that offer up-to-date features like touchscreen, accessible on mobile devices, robust security and integrated with Microsoft Lync for communication and Microsoft SharePoint for document sharing. However, it was a crucial decision to replace Microsoft Windows 7 with the newly Windows 8 platform, as the workers were relied on their PC’s in serving customers.
The executives came with the solution by providing over thousands touchscreen PCs with Windows 8 platform to all their eighty stores. By
Target Corporation allocated large budget to upgrade information system as part of a roadmap to transform business (Target Roadmap, 2015). Once the upgrade is completed, it will provide a large amount of intelligent data for internal resources to support customers faster. It further tracks performance and controls accurately the timely information about daily operations in real time. The automated online and on-demand ad-hoc reports generate reports for each store any time as well retains records of products and services.
As we discuss the possibility of emerging into business intelligence software we must keep in mind the overall purpose of using any type of software is to reach strategic goals in order to increase market shares. I will discuss how business intelligence software will allow us to meet those strategic goals. We will establish what type of information and analysis capabilities will be available once this business intelligence software is implemented. We will discuss hardware and system software that will be required to run specific business intelligence software. Lastly, I will give a brief synopsis on three vendors (IBM, Microsoft Microsoft and Oracle) that are dominating the business information software
Up until this point, Third Star Financial Services has operated via a succession of mergers and acquisitions where systems were inherited but never integrated into the network. Its data management has been virtually non-existent and entirely ineffective. Evidence of this can be found in the absence of an enterprise-wide data management solution and the presence of several disparate systems operating independently with no measurable benefit to the company. Due to a lack of actionable data, management makes decisions based on instinct rather than through analysis. A direct consequence of this is a steadily declining market share and loss of high-level employees to competing companies. Fortunately, this discrepancy has been identified and Third Star executives have established the new goal of modernizing and streamlining operations. Using concepts outlined by the Data Management Association (DAMA), this proposed enterprise architecture will allow Third Star to transform their data from a liability to an asset.
It is important to have information gathering techniques so that no information can be overlooked. The information system that we are looking for must meet the requirements of the organization and the employees that will be using the system. The first part of information gathering should consist of identifying information sources. The main sources of information in the company should be employees who use the system and will be using the new one because they can tell you what works and what does not work or basically what’s good about this system so that we can implement it in the new
New applications will utilize off-the-shelf software components that have been customized per Riordan’s specifications and further messaged to ensure that each application will integrate smoothly with all the others in order to create a single cohesive whole. Great effort will be made to ensure that the data structures used in each are consistent in order to simplify the creation of the enterprise’s database. To help facilitate this, we will create an umbrella application that will integrate each other system as a module. This umbrella application will be extendable as needed and will act as a single-launch point for the various systems utilized by Riordan. We will also be working closely with Riordan’s IT department to develop a bridge that will enable them to easily port their existing databases into the new one automatically.
This figure illustrates the future of BI for CTC. Independent data sources have been incorporated into a single BI system, within a global data model. All data will be loaded into corporate EDW via ETL. The EDW will feed the financial data mart for enterprise performance management, so business users will be able to conduct planning and budgeting functions. On the right side of the EDW, BI specialists will assist in organizing data marts into four categories: Supply Chain, Vendor,
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First off, why do we need a business intelligence system for our business? Simply put, an effective
Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) maintains 3 critical issues. These issues are processing inefficiency, lack of communication between the departments, and insufficient planning. Mark Duncan has been given the task to fix these critical issues. Mark plans to use business intelligence (BI) system to help with these critical issues. Ideally a BI system should help analyze data by department, record important information, and help forecast traffic for future periods.
Data collected by a business includes internal data, such as financial or operational information, as well as external data, such as customer or website usage information. Properly analyzing and acting on this vast amount of data can transform the way companies do business and can become their biggest competitive advantage. Leaders of the organization no longer have to rely on their “gut instincts” to make key decisions, instead they will make decisions off historic data and will be able to more easily measure and track the effectiveness of those decisions.
All projects are working towards a Data Model that gets approved by engineering and business in the next few sprints. The goal is to provide self service reporting capabilities for the data relevant to respective business function.
First a company must understand the relationship between the data they want to keep track of, in the scenario
When CCCL Inc was a small company, keeping records and customer data by the use of spreadsheets, access databases, and manual records were realistic practices, but as the company has grown, it has outgrown such practices. Management at GRW is now searching for a centralized database solution that will allow multi-department database collaboration as well as the ability to mine data as needed, companywide. The proposed solution to the needs of the company is the installation of Microsoft SQL Server 2012. The following report addresses the type of SQL Server to implement, security for the new database, high availability, plans for backup & recovery, integration services, and other related details to ensure a smooth transition into the
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The main purpose of BI is to allow easy interpretation of large chunks of data and identifying new opportunities and strategies.