Business intelligence (BI)

Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions.

In every industry, businesses are striving to track, understand, and manage their information more effectively so that they can evaluate performance, plan their future and achieve competitive advantage.

The key drivers for accurate and timely information include the need to:

• Place data in the hands of larger numbers and types of users
• Make decisions more frequently and more accurately in shorter time scales
• customize data on a mass scale requiring data warehouses to provide different information to different people from different data sources
• Manage the impact of new legislation and compliance regulations

Our Business Intelligence (BI) software development services offerings can be divided into following areas:

• Front-end Development
• Data Warehousing and Mining
• Business Intelligence Reporting Services

Front End Development

e-Zest Business Intelligence competency team members are having expertise in custom ‘off the shelf’ solutions such as ProClarity Analytics,Arcplan dynaSight which can be used in front-end development. There are cases where these ready-made solution fails to meet clients specific requirements. In such scenarios, e-Zest leverages its capabilities in customized (bespoke) web front end reporting solutions. We can provide solutions based on multiple technology platforms such as:

• .NET platform including VB, C# and ASP
• Java (J2EE)
• Open source with PHP and MySQL

These web-focused technologies enable the development of customized reporting and analysis front ends and are particularly useful for organizations with very large volumes of data they wish to work with or very complex reporting and analysis requirements.

Data Warehousing and Mining

Data Mining refers to exploring data, discovering patterns, and applying these patterns to business operations with an easy-to-use, extensible, accessible, and flexible platform.

Data Warehousing leverages enhancements in partitioning, manageability and query optimizations in recent database solutions such as SQL Server 2005 and Oracle Database 10g to streamline operations and increase performance.

e-Zest provides data mining and warehousing services from business intelligence perspective on SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g and PostgreSQL database platforms.

Business Intelligence Reporting Services

We provide software development services with enterprise reporting capabilities using following technologies:

• Business Intelligence Services using Business Objects Solutions
• SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services
• Cognos and MicroStrategy Reporting Services

At e-Zest, we have helped our clients in delivering business intelligence solutions with measurable value which are inline with long-term business goals for our customers.