Business Intelligence is one of the most powerful initiatives undertaken in business today. Successful BI projects result in providing companies with comprehensive knowledge of the factors that impact their business activity. Typical companies have years of transactional data. Business Intelligence solutions provide business leaders the ability to answer questions and improve their sales, operations, or financial strategies based on the facts the data contains. The question is how do you get from "transactional data" to a business intelligence solution that gives your company a competitive edge?

One might think that this problem is solved by purchasing a business intelligence software solution such as Microsoft Analysis Services. Microsoft Analysis Services is a great product; however, business intelligence is about defining business analytical needs and understanding the key performance indicators of the business. Once this is defined, a business can solve for data volume with business intelligence software products such as Microsoft Analysis Services.

eConsortian puts in your hands a business intelligence framework allows you to map your business objectives to existing data and create a gap analysis defining business metrics and extracting information that is needed to create a competitive advantage. eConsortian, a quadruple Microsoft Gold Certified Solution Provider, combines business strategies and technology to help you build business intelligence solutions that give you a competitive advantage.