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Agenda
Introductions About CRG Seminar Objectives The What and Why of BI Microsoft Business Intelligence Product Demonstration CRG Implementation Approach Q&A and Next Steps

CRG Overview
Founded in 1989 We are global company with offices in Canada, South Africa, India and the United States Thousands of companies use CRG solutions Partnered with industry leaders:

CRG Solutions and Services

Management Consulting
Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Shared Services, Activity-based Costing/Management, Planning and Budgeting, Shareholder Value Creation

Business Management Solutions

Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Business Solutions Small Business Financials

Business Performance Products

Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-on Products, EmPerform, FlexABM, Enterprise Scorecard, Cost Allocator, Shared Services Manager (SSM), eSurvey
All our solutions are designed to fulfill our mission: Driving Better Business Management and Performance.

Some Key Customers

Seminar Objectives
Provide you with a general understanding of Business Intelligence (BI). Share with you the Microsoft BI strategy and solution. Describe our capabilities and experience in implementing BI solutions. Answer your questions and help you with your BI journey.

What is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time. BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making. BI leads to: fact-based decision making single version of the truth BI includes reporting and analytics.

Why BI? The Five Questions

Data

What happened? What is happening? Why did it happen? What will happen? What do I want to happen?

Past Present Future

ERP

CRM

SCM

3Pty

Black books
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Common Pain Points...

Data everywhere, information no where Different users have different needs Excel versus PDF Pull versus push On demand on schedule Your format my format Takes too long wasted resources/efforts Security Technical mumbo jumbo Why I just cant get it to you when you want it.

Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision

Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions
Advanced Analytics Self Service Reporting EndEnd-User Analysis Business Performance Management Operational Applications
Embedded Analytics

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Microsoft BI Principles
Make it affordable
 

Centers around a belief that todays BI tools are specialized and expensive. Microsoft will focus on affordability and lower TCO.

Leverage the Microsoft investment already made by clients



End-to-end solution leveraging Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Performance Management Applications. Focus on the end-users experience with Microsoft Office and the desire to Stop Building Tools for Analysts. We are dead serious about BI, Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft BI Conference, May 11, 2007, Seattle , WA

Long-term Commitment


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Microsoft BI Growth: Gaining Ground

Microsoft's BI Tools revenue growth in 2005 was more than 25 percent, growing at more than twice the rate of the overall market. Microsoft's impact on the BI tools market cannot be overemphasized. This impact will mark an evolutionary change that has been put into motion by the database vendors overall and will reshape the BI tools market over the next 15 years. Dan Vesset, IDC

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Microsoft BI Platform

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Microsoft BI Platform

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SQL Server Database Management

SQL Server Relational Database provides a robust, scalable and enterprise-ready Data Warehouse platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has improved partitioning, manageability, and query optimizations to streamline data warehouse operations and increase performance. Many Business Solutions and systems currently use this database.

Business Intelligence Platform Analysis Services SQL 2005 Integration Services Database Management Reporting Services

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SQL Server Integration Services

Provides functionality commonly referred to as Extract, Transform, Load (ETL). Moves and transforms data between sources and destinations, regardless of format. Cleanses data and ensures data integrity. Integrates heterogeneous data sources. Business Intelligence Platform Analysis Services SQL 2005 Integration Services Database Management Reporting Services

Source: 2007 Microsoft Office System Business Intelligence Integration, White Paper, February 1, 2007, Anthony T. Mann

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SQL Server Analysis Services

Allows for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), commonly referred to as cubes. Includes advanced analytical features such as complete data mining and key performance indicator frameworks. Enables organizations to accommodate multiple analytic needs within one solution.

Business Intelligence Platform Analysis Services SQL 2005 Integration Services Database Management Reporting Services

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SQL Server Reporting Services

Provides a complete reporting platform so that end-users can view data using a Web browser or desk top. Includes report authoring tools for both technical developers and business users. Allows web-based viewing and rendering in popular document formats such as Microsoft Excel and PDF. Contains robust e-mail subscription capability. Business Intelligence Platform Analysis Services SQL 2005 Integration Services Database Management Reporting Services

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Microsoft BI Platform

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Microsoft Excel 2007

End User Tools & Performance Management

Excel

Performance Point
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Office PerformancePoint Server 2007

Planning


Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy. Powerful analytics capabilities empower business users to access data and to perform analyses on their own so that they can make better, faster decisions.

Monitoring and Analysis



Release scheduled for Q4, 2007

End User Tools & Performance Management

Excel

Performance Point
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Microsoft BI Platform

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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server

Key Benefit: makes information easy to access and use. Brings the Self-Service to BI. Serves as the central access point for all reports and business data. Provides integration to Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel, ProClarity Analytics, Dashboards (currently known as Business Scorecard Manager) and PerformancePoint Server. Allows users to collaborate, annotate and search. Stores documents in a document library.
Collaboration

Share Point Server

Delivery
Reports Dashboards Excel Workbooks Scorecards Analytic Views Plans

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We believe that Microsoft offers superior value for the following reasons: Its affordable and leverages existing investments.


What We Like About the Microsoft BI Platform?

In many cases the organization already own the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office licenses.

Its modularorganizations can deploy it all at once or one piece at a time.  For instance, one can start with Reporting Services and cubes and then integrate everything with SharePoint. Microsoft is focused on the end-user experience and making BI easy to use.

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Product Demonstration & Roadmap

Reporting services
(designbuilddeploy)

Excel 2007 (familiar world) ProClarity - Analytics PerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007)
(planmonitoranalyze)

SharePoint Server

CRG Offers
Knowledge Experience Vision

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Our Capabilities
CRG has a talented, experienced group of professional consultants that can help you successfully implement any or all of your BI solution. Our business team consists of MBAs, CAs, CMAs, CGAs and CFAs. Our technical team consists of Microsoft-Certified consultants who have many years of experience implementing Business Intelligence solutions. We believe in the dedicated involvement of both business and technical consultants who also provide post-implementation support and training.

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Our Implementation Objectives

Our primary goal is to ensure that  We understand the business requirements we prefer to start with the highest pain point.  We can provide cost-effective solutions that meets business requirements.  We can provide a superior end-user experience.

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Our Implementation Approach

Focus on the immediate pain point and delivery and deployment paths
Domain: Sales, Financial Reporting, Product Development, Projects, HR, Operations, Inventories, Purchasing, etc. Deployment: Reports, PDFs, cubes, push-pull, briefing books, URLs, IPAQ, Browser, etc.

Develop a prototype solution. Validate the prototype against the business needs. Finalize and implement the automated solution. Train the users. Deploy the solution across the organization. Move on to the next pain point.

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CRG Implementation Approach

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The End Result

Q&A and Next Steps

For more information, please contact us at:
www.crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 Doug Hum, Director, Marketing and Business Development
dhum@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 286

Vijay Jog
vjog@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 228

John Smith
jsmith@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 239

May Abouseido
may@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 226

Kobana Abukari
kabuari@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 227

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