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DIRECT ACCESS SOLUTIONS

DIRECT ACCESS SOLUTIONS. Presenter: Catherine Deenihan. Presumptions in the business world. Does enterprise performance management and business intelligence initiatives need to be supported by a data warehouse? Functions of a Data Warehouse -Data storage -Centralized

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DIRECT ACCESS SOLUTIONS

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  1. DIRECT ACCESS SOLUTIONS Presenter: Catherine Deenihan

  2. Presumptions in the business world • Does enterprise performance management and business intelligence initiatives need to be supported by a data warehouse? • Functions of a Data Warehouse -Data storage -Centralized • Proven issues with a data warehouse - complex, unwieldy and expensive, etc. • Is there another alternative?

  3. Innovative Solution • Vanguard Solutions Group developed -Direct Access • The new technology delivers the following: -Fully integrated enterprise information -Rich business intelligence functionality -Analytics, and reporting • Directly to the business decision-makers without relying on a data warehouse. • Saving time, increasing business agility, and reducing costs.

  4. Vanguard Solutions Group • Delivers performance management solutions that help companies intelligently interpret and analyze business data. • Customer’s range from small to mid-sized manufacturers to multi-billion dollar global corporations. • Immediate business benefits -lower overall costs -decreased time to value -increased business agility

  5. Vanguard’s Solution • Accesses information directly from source systems. • Helps companies leverage their installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other enterprise systems by providing business intelligence and analytics solutions. • Enables businesses to get performance management information into the hands of business users without waiting through a long warehouse project.

  6. Business Benefits • Immediate cost savings. • Reduced complexity, risk, and on-going maintenance. • Provides a high degree of agility. • Deployment time is reduced. • Enables businesses to focus on the value of their information, rather than on the underlying technology. • Enables businesses to concentrate on improving business performance not on generating and managing more data.

  7. Why customers are choosing Direct Access • Ideally suited to mid-market firms that need to manage their business in real-time to be effective. • Construction Management Firm -cost -act on information • Industrial Manufacturer -business changes too quickly • Business trends also drives the adoption of Direct Access -business standards of accuracy and accountability -business transparency is vital • Accessibility

  8. Core Concept behind the Direct Access Solution • Business intelligence must be demand driven. -where user dictates the technical solution • Drive the process and removes the problems of content relevance and software complexity. • IT-driven business intelligence projects frequently do not deliver what the business users need. • The business decision-maker needs to own the process. • Automated publication and delivery of analytic content to end-users – eDeployment module.

  9. Graphical Performance Series (GPS) • Vanguard’s GPS solution gives each user immediate access to vital business information, and the tools to use that information to improve business performance. • Vanguard’s strategy – lets business people drive the solution.

  10. Real-Time Data Integration Server (RDIS) • The engine behind the Direct Access is an integrated server-based middleware application, called the real-time data integration server (RDIS). • It is an unique technology component that works with the unified information model to manage the task of virtualizing multiple data sources. • RDIS receives and interprets information requests, and determines which data sources must be queried to satisfy the request.

  11. Conclusion • Technology has evolved to a point where the business needs can be met without making the investments in time, money, and people that a data warehouse demands. • Vanguard’s solution Direct Access provides an alternative to the data warehouse, while offering significant business benefits: -lower costs -business agility -reporting accuracy and transparency -time to value

  12. Conclusion • The end result is …… -flexible -efficient -scalable access to the systems of record -enabling end users to drive improvements in business performance.

  13. Questions!!!

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