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One of the hardest challenges facing organisations today is getting the highest value from the information they already have in different data silos across their business.

This information, once released and presented in a digestible design can enable Directors, Managers and other Operational staff make timelier and better informed decisions. Often these interventions provide decisive changes to strategic initiatives and processes which substantially reduce costs and risk as well as increasing revenue and market share. When the improved management activities are sustained it increases the Shareholder or Stakeholder Value and further enhances the organisation's ability to finance and fuel more aggressive growth or in difficult times ensures that it survives where others fall away.

Therefore as one of the key elements to business improvement is making faster, more informed and insightful decisions it is clear that the success of your decisions depends on how you maintain your data, the accuracy as you analyse the information and how you put it to effective use in a timely manor. This then is the basic description of Business Intelligence (BI).

Unless an organisation has implemented an effective Data Management strategy, the growing volume of data, residing in different systems and networks will restrict an organisation's ability to make more informed business decisions. However many organisations are now investing time and effort in understanding their data better, how to best cleanse, store and maintain the information which will be used as the basis of delivering the BI value back to the business.

3i Infotech has provided to numerous clients, across the globe and in many industries, the help and support they need to transform their Data Management and implement meaningful BI solutions.

3i Infotech through their local offices and the BI Centre of Excellence in Nodia, near Delhi, India bring experience and expertise to assist organisations where ever they are in their development and implementation of a Data Management and BI strategies.

Whilst 3i Infotech are vendor neutral, we maintain good working relations across all of the software vendors. The relationship with Oracle is a key 3i Infotech partnership which we believe enables us to bring the best solutions which are competitively priced to the UK and global markets. This relationship has been acknowledged by Oracle by way of several awards and honours both in the UK and globally and we are currently Oracle's Technology Partner of the Year.

The following elements make up the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition Plus offering:

Oracle BI Server:
Common enterprise business model and abstraction layer

Oracle BI Answers:
Ad-hoc query and reporting

Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards:
Highly interactive dashboards for accessing business intelligence and applications content

Oracle BI Delivers:
Proactive business activity monitoring and alerting

Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics:
Full analytical functionality for the mobile professionals

Oracle BI Publisher (formerly known as XML Publisher):
Enterprise reporting and distribution of "pixel-perfect" reports

Oracle BI Briefing Books:
Snapshots of dashboard pages to view and share in offline mode

Hyperion Interactive Reporting:
Intuitive and highly interactive ad-hoc reporting

Hyperion SQR Production Reporting:
High volume, presentation-quality formatted report generation

Hyperion Financial Reporting:
Formatted, book-quality financial and management reporting

Hyperion Essbase Plus:
Industry leading OLAP analytical tool

Hyperion Web Analysis:
Web-based online analytical processing (OLAP) analysis, presentation, and reporting

Hyperion Visual Explorer:
Data visualisation tool for Essbase

3i Infotech offerings include:

• Review and re-envisioning of your BI Vision and Strategy
• Review of your existing Data Management Strategy
• Creation of a project / programme of work to bring the BI and Data solutions to your organisation including scoping, software selection (where appropriate) and implementation activities
• Many of the solutions incorporate
  • Business Intelligence portals
  • Enterprise Reporting, often exception based oInteractive reporting
  • Role based and row level access control
  • Ad hoc queries
  • Key Performance Indicator and other drillable executive dashboards
  • Detailed data modelling and "what if" analysis
  • Evidencing appropriate Corporate Governance

Our range of services focuses on promoting user involvement and commitment, using world-class accredited methodologies, techniques and processes enabling us to deliver solutions that normally exceed our clients' expectations.

We are happy to engage at the right level for the client, whether it is to help with defining strategy and roadmaps, taking ownership of Programme, Project or Work Stream definition and delivery. We are also content to supply suitably experienced and skilled consultants to supplement an in-house team as they take on the ownership of the delivery. 3i Infotech are able to provide services on-site, near-shore and off-shore depending on the needs of each portion of a programme or project.

We are very competitively priced and able to offer a range of commercial engagement models to meet our client's requirements.

Many organisations now recognise that in addition to providing world class Business Intelligence they will gain further significant value when they extend the vision, insights and control into management processes. Enterprise Performance Management is the current collective name for this and 3i Infotech are also able to assist companies in this area.

We also offer Application Maintenance and Support services focussed to Business Intelligence and Enterprise Performance Management.

Please see the following data sheets with further information on Oracle Hyperion Planning and Oracle Essbase.