Simpson Associates have extensive experience of Business Intelligence software from a number of major vendors including both IBM Cognos and Microsoft. Business Intelligence enables organisations to significantly improve their understanding of their business performance.

• Maximising Existing Data Investments
  Data Warehouse applications take the volume of data your organisation collects and stores transforming it into a cohesive, consistent suite of meaningful reports and analyses that everyone can easily access and use.

• A complete, integrated line of sight
  With secure, readily available reports and analyses, everyone sees permitted results across divisions, departments and groups of workers alike to pre-defined business rules. This enables comparative analyses and drill down capabilities to discover underlying causes and understand "What", "When" & "Why" issues behind business performance criteria.

• Aligning everyone with one, consistent version of the truth
  With common data definitions stored to pre-defined business rules and an understanding of priorities, users of such processes are dealing with factual information, spending less time debating the data, values, structures etc., and more time making informed decisions based upon trusted data.

• Shortening times to make informed decisions
  With timely reports and self-service reporting on key business drivers and metrics, all users see changes as and when they happen. This enables the right decisions to be made at the right time, thereby increasing the values of the decisions made.

• Meeting the information needs of all users
  Flexible, intuitive and user-friendly reporting means everyone can have the right information delivered in the right way: whether managed reports, dashboards, scorecards, online analytics, or self-service reporting and queries - all of the information is provided via personalised, secured menus ensuring high levels of acceptance and ease of use.

Simpson Associates have delivered hundreds of Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solutions making extensive use of both IBM Cognos 7 and 8 Reporting, Analysis, Metric and Data Management tools and Microsoft SQL Server, Integration, Analysis and Reporting Services and SharePoint Portals.