Technical Benefits using Business Guidance Systems

Technology Benefits

Business Guidance Systems clients' experience demonstrates the following technical achievements,

Flexible Access- access to all of the required data

Direct business-user control - access to their data, on a need-to-know basis

Data sharing - across the organization; reduction of replicated data needed for reporting and analysis purposes saving interface maintenance and storage costs

Data Integrity - Dramatic improvement in data and decision quality

Centralized - Reporting and analysis streamlined to a single source of data

Flexible Implementation - alternatives in platform and data delivery environments and tools can be tested and evaluated

Re-deployment - programming resources re-allocated to application development rather than data reporting

Re-engineering - discovery of requirements for business or system re-engineering necessary to improve quality of operational data

Off load processing - Separation of informational and operational processing; Local manipulation of downloaded data

Scalable - technical advantages and considerations from database experience including client/server through massively parallel processors

Client Server -client server implementation and processing experience

Web-enabled - Decision support, EIS, OLAP, ROLAP, MOLAP and analytical processing

Training Costs - Reduced end-user and technical training costs

Project Management Costs - Reduced system development and maintenance life cycle costs