Business Intelligence Overview

Business intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration, analysis, and presentation of business information and sometimes to the information itself. The purpose of business intelligence--a term that dates at least to 1958--is to support better business decision making. Thus, BI is also described as a Decision Support System (DSS). BI is sometimes used interchangeably with briefing books, report and query tools and executive information systems. In general, business intelligence systems are data-driven DSS. BI systems provide historical, current, and predictive views of business operations, most often using data that has been gathered into a data warehouse or a data mart and occasionally working from operational data. Software elements support the use of this information by assisting in the extraction, analysis, and reporting of information. Applications tackle sales, production, financial, and many other sources of business data for purposes that include, notably, business performance management. Information may be gathered on comparable companies to produce benchmarks.

Uncover the True Value of Your Data

Data rich, knowledge poor – a phrase heard far too often in today's business world. Many businesses are struggling to find ways to make sense of their growing and often disconnected collections of data. But with Enterprise Software Solutions, you can have your data, and use it too! ESS produces business intelligence products that simply and rapidly enable the collection, analysis and presentation of business data. Our tools for data mining, multidimensional modeling and enterprise reporting help you turn your data into knowledge.

	Silverlight Business Intelligence Companion – the first truly no installation, web-based application for quickly browsing and analyzing OLAP cubes. You won't be able to find anything faster than the BI Companion. If you know how to use your mouse, you are ready to delve into your data. And what's better, it's free to our clients!
	Report Server Companion – Finally a tool that requires no installation, no maintenance and allows you to browse MS Report Server reports, and create your own reports. No need to be a report designer or developer. Quickly drag and drop a stored procedure or create an SQL statement, adjust the parameters and your report is ready and deployed on the MS Report Server.
	Report Server Viewer – The RS Viewer allows you to browse RS reports in a Silverlight Application. The Viewer makes direct calls to the Report Services interface thus preserving end user security. No middle tier, no scalability issues.
	Interactive Dashboards –Enterprise Software Solutions' interactive dashboards are flexible to create and easy to use. Support has been extended to allow for SSRS reports, images, BI Companion Reports, text documents, xml files and more. Start by selecting the panes positioning – free form or grid based. Then drag and drop onto the panes to populate them. Drop over the same pane multiple items and select the rotation interval, to make panes auto-rotate content. Save the dashboard. Right click an copy the URL and paste it into any container or IE to see the dashboard.
	Data Mining Companion – no more battling with complex MDX and SQL Statements. This tool allows users to mine data like they've never before imagined, creating scenarios and evaluating results with the click of a mouse.