Case Studies and White Papers
National Savings Bank of Serbia (NSBS)
Complex Bank Business Intelligence Solution Developed in Just Eight Months - In only eight months, developers at Pexim finished the complex solution for NSBS. The small development team used Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio, the Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 development system, and the Microsoft Visual C#® development tool, along with Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 for the front end.
1-800 CONTACTS
Contact Lens Provider Has Clearer Vision of Business with New Data Warehouse - 1-800 CONTACTS, the leading contact lens provider in the world, sells to consumers across the United States through its Web site and toll-free call center. Company management was frustrated with its limited ability to directly access important data and its need to go through IT staff members in order to get timely, reproducible reports. To provide better, faster results, the company created a new data warehouse using Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Integration Services, which is used to define business rules for data that help create consistent, clear business intelligence. The company is also using Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal Server 2003 to create new intranet sites where users can easily find predefined reports for data analysis. The new technology is helping 1-800 CONTACTS glean better business intelligence to help guide the growing company.
BUSINESS OBJECTS
Leading Provider of BI Solutions Boosts Integration and Analysis Capabilities - Business Objects is a leading provider of business intelligence (BI) software, offering a full BI software suite that includes query and analysis and performance management tools. In 1993, Microsoft integrated Crystal Reports® from Business Objects into Microsoft® Visual Basic®, and new versions of Crystal Reports have continued to ship concurrently with each new release of Visual Studio® and the Microsoft application environment. When Microsoft announced the pre-release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2005, it was natural for Business Objects to work closely with the Microsoft team to take advantage of the new features and maximize the performance of these products with its BI software. The tight integration of Crystal Reports with Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 reduces report development time and increases developer productivity with faster and easier access to data, as well as increases functionality to format and deliver the data.
Barnes and Noble, Inc.
Bookseller Gains Business Insights Across Sales Channels with New Data Warehouse - Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest bookseller, operates 821 stores in 50 states. To help improve its business operations and respond better to customer needs, the company needed new business intelligence tools that could access information faster and provide more detailed reports to managers. The company, which runs Oracle databases for operational systems, decided to deploy a new data warehouse using Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 running on an HP Integrity Superdome server equipped with Intel Itanium processors. Today, daily transactional information is loaded faster, reports are available to managers quickly for more insightful business decisions, and the company has a long-term solution that is improving profitability and enhancing relationships with Barnes & Noble customers.
Clalit Health Services
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Data Mining Helps Clalit Preserve Health and Save Lives - As the largest health service provider in Israel, Clalit Health Services is constantly looking for ways to enhance health care delivery to its 3.7 million insured members. Clalit wanted to further utilize its existing Microsoft data warehouse with a data mining solution that will help identify patients who are likely to suffer from deteriorating health in the future. Upgrading its 1.5-terabyte data warehouse to a single instance of Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Enterprise Edition (64-bit) from SQL Server 2000, Clalit is using a SQL Server 2005 Data Mining feature to generate predictive scores that can give Clalit physicians advance warning as to who may benefit from proactive intervention to maintain health. The data mining solution aims to help preserve quality of life for Clalit’s members, while reducing medical costs by keeping patients out of medical crises.
Critical Business Intelligence Platform for the Agile Enterprise - To succeed in a competitive marketplace, agile enterprises require critical business intelligence (BI) to quickly anticipate, adapt, and react to changing business conditions. When agile enterprises design BI systems, they use the SQL Server 2005 BI platform as their standard. Recognized in the marketplace for providing cost-effective BI solutions for the enterprise, the SQL Server BI platform delivers industry-leading BI technologies that uniquely satisfy the broad and deep demands of information workers, application developers, and information technology professionals. Read this white paper to understand how SQL Server 2005 can provide a critical BI platform for the agile enterprise.
Why Upgrade to SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence: A Technical Overview - SQL Server 2005 delivers technology that works tirelessly to support your business—technology that integrates seamlessly and scales to support your enterprise demands. SQL Server 2005 can take your organization to the next level of business intelligence (BI) with integrated tools, faster performance, more reliability and availability, and an easy, low-cost upgrade path. If you are considering upgrading your BI solution, read this white paper to find out why you should switch to SQL Server 2005.
What’s New in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services - This white paper provides a practical guide to exploring the new features of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) platform.
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