This web portal was designed to promote Business Intelligence Solutions in Hong Kong. We would like to make it a easy way for anyone :

to discover BI (What is BI ?)

to understand what BI is all about (and what it is not about !)

to understand how BI works

to understand that some of their informational or analitycal need ... are in fact just about BI

to understand the ROI behind a BI project or a company global datawarehouse

to understand the pre-requisites before starting building a BI solution

to understand the common mistakes people do in a BI project

to understand that there are different BI tools ... for different needs

to help them choose the best BI tools according to their need (and never to match the need with the tool !) and to their budget

But first of all we want this BI introduction to be as simple and easy to understand as possible :-)

This web portal was designed to promote Business Intelligence Solutions in Hong Kong. We would like to make it a easy way for anyone :

to discover BI

to understand what BI is all about (and what it is not about !)

to understand how BI works

to understand that some of their informational or analitical need ... are in fact just about BI

to understand the ROI behind a BI project or a company global datawarehouse

to understand the pre-requisites before starting building a BI solution

to understand the common mistakes people do in a BI project

to understand that there are different BI tools ... for different needs

to help them choose the best BI tools according to their need (and never to match the need with the tool !) and to their budget

But first off all we want these BI introduction to be as simple and easy to understand as possible :-)

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During the past 10 years the BI Solutions team members were involved in numerous overseas projects. Within these project we used the following "tool type / tool / software company" :

Database / Teradata Server / Teradata

Database / Oracle Server / Oracle

Database / SQL Server / Microsoft

ETL / Datastage / Ascential (now part of IBM)

ETL / Powercenter / Informatica

ETL / Cognos Data Integrator / Cognos (now part of IBM)

ETL / Sunopsis / Sunopsis (now part of Oracle)

ETL / Business Object Data Integrator (BODI) / Business Object (now part of SAP)

ETL / Genio / Hummingbird

ETL / Data Transformation Services / Microsoft

ETL / SSIS / Microsoft

ETL / Talend / Talend

ETL / Pentaho / Pentaho

OLAP / Cognos Cubes / Cognos (now part of IBM)

OLAP / BO Cubes / Business Object (now part of SAP)

OLAP / Hyperion Cubes / Hyperion (now part of Oracle)

OLAP / Analysis Services / Microsoft

Reporting / Crystal Reports / Crystal Decisions (acquired by Business Object now part of SAP)

Reporting / Cognos Suite / Cognos (now part of IBM)

Reporting / Business Object / Business Object (now part of SAP)

During the past 10 years the BI Solutions team members were involved in numerous overseas projects. Amoung those project we worked for the following "sector / company" :

Aerospace / Air France

Aerospace / Messier Dowty (Snecma Group , Safran Group)

Aerospace / Lisi Aerospace

Banking and Insurance / AXA

Banking and Insurance / Canam

Luxury / Moet Hennesy (LVMH Group)

Pharmaceuticals / Sanofi Aventis

Pharmaceuticals / Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)

Pharmaceuticals / Biomerieux

Chemicals / Sartomer (Arkema Group, Total Group)

Chemicals / Cray Valley South Africa (Arkema Group, Total Group)

Food / Compass Group

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First lets start with two interesting definitions.

(1) "Business Intelligence is a way to have more timely, accurate and business focused information, improving performance by monitoring financial and non financial aspects of customers 'businesses'" (definition from ... )

(2) "Business Intelligence is an interactive process for exploring and analyzing structured and domain-specific information to discern trends or patterns, thereby deriving insights and drawing conclusions. The business intelligence process includes communicating findings and effecting change. " (Gartner definition of Business intelligence)

The second definition sound a bit tortuous but is a very interesting definition as it countains many of the BI keywords. Let's have a look at thoses keywords :
- interactive
- process
- exploring
- analyzing
- structured ... information
- domain-specific infornation
- discern trends
- discern ... patterns
- deriving insights
- drawing conclusions
- communicating findings
- effecting changes

and amoung those keywords we could add
- multidimensional representation of datas
- performance map

Virtually any organization today has to face an increasing competitive and challenging landscape. As a consequence organizations are demanding more and more value from their business intelligence.