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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


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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.
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Some Key Customers






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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.


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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.

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Why BI?
The Five Questions
What happened?
What is happening?
Why did it happen?
What will happen?
What do I want to happen?
ERP CRM 3Pty SCM
Black
books
Past
Present
Future
Data
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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.



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Improving organizations by
providing business insights
to all employees leading to
better, faster, more
relevant decisions
Advanced Analytics
Self Service Reporting
End-User Analysis
Business Performance Management
Operational Applications
Embedded Analytics
Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision
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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.
Long-term Commitment
We are dead serious about BI, Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft
Microsoft BI Conference, May 11, 2007, Seattle , WA
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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
Business Intelligence Platform
Analysis Services Reporting Services
Integration Services Database Management
SQL 2005
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.
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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 Reporting Services
Integration Services Database Management
SQL 2005
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.
Analysis Services Reporting Services
Integration Services Database Management
SQL 2005
Business Intelligence Platform
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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 Reporting Services
Integration Services Database Management
SQL 2005
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Microsoft BI Platform
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Excel Performance Point
End User Tools & Performance Management
Microsoft Excel 2007
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Excel Performance Point
End User Tools & Performance Management
Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Planning
Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and
budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with
corporate strategy.
Monitoring and Analysis
Powerful analytics capabilities empower business users to
access data and to perform analyses on their own so that they
can make better, faster decisions.
Release scheduled for Q4, 2007

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Microsoft BI Platform
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Delivery
Reports
Excel
Workbooks
Dashboards Scorecards
Analytic
Views
Plans
Collaboration
Share Point Server
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.

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What We Like About the Microsoft
BI Platform?
We believe that Microsoft offers superior value for the
following reasons:
Its affordable and leverages existing investments.
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.
Product Demonstration & Roadmap
Reporting services
(designbuilddeploy)
Excel 2007 (familiar world)
ProClarity - Analytics
PerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007)
(planmonitoranalyze)
SharePoint Server
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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
The End Result
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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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