Say you have two companies in the same business running similar business processes. They even share some of the same customers. Yet one company is more successful than the other.
What makes the difference?
It all comes down to the question of data—the critical business queries such as:
- Who? Who are your current customers? Your current vendors? Who could best use this information?
- What? What type of data describes your customers? And your products? What is it you want to market? What is the impact of a price change? What is your target market?
- When? When did your customer make a purchase? When did the product arrive in the store? When was it delivered to the warehouse?
- Why? Why are you out of stock? Why did the customer choose this product over others?
- How? How did pricing affect the purchase pattern? How can you market more effectively to your customers?
- And what if? What possible paths can be taken? How can you mitigate future risks?
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Answers to these questions—and the ability to access the information that helps determine the answers—can make a big difference in a company’s ability to compete or even survive.
While many companies have a lot in common, it’s how the market leaders use their data—their business intelligence strategy, if you will—that can be the differentiating factor in today’s competitive global marketplace.
At the heart of every business intelligence strategy is the data warehouse. Build your data warehouse correctly, and you’ll get more requests for data, not less. Then, as your data warehouse grows and matures, you’ll realize a greater return on your initial investment as you drive better business outcomes. |
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The HP Neoview next-generation data warehouse delivers the dependability, scale and functionality required by high-end data warehouse systems—yet it delivers these capabilities with the simplicity, speed and cost-savings of more limited data warehouse appliances.
Packing a lot of business intelligence capabilities into one system package, the Neoview solution is delivered fully configured, pre-integrated, pre-tested and optimized for data warehouse operation—so you can begin to load data as soon as the system is installed.
What’s more, the Neoview platform includes a complete set of Neoview Foundation Services that speeds and simplifies the process by enabling correct configuration and quick installation. You get:
- Engagement management—You can rely on a single point of contact to oversee getting your system up and running right. Having this kind of focused project management available to you helps make sure you get a quicker return on your investment.
- Readiness checkup—Leveraging our business intelligence experience and industry best practices, we evaluate your IT environment, including IT architecture, infrastructure and design.
- Solution design—HP experts work with yours to develop and document an initial solution that satisfies your business requirements.
- Site evaluation—An HP installation specialist works with you to evaluate your site and see that your site is ready for the HP Neoview platform.
- Factory integration—At the factory, HP transforms the initial design documentation into a fully configured and pre-tested Neoview platform.
- Installation and startup—An HP engineer arrives on site with the sole task of getting your new Neoview platform up and running quickly to your factory specifications.
- Orientation review—We provide your IT staff with a familiarization review covering the operation of the Neoview platform, system maintenance and support strategy.
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As you work with the HP Services professionals who are delivering the various phases of the Neoview Foundation Services, you’ll find you may be asked some questions along the way, such as:
- Do you have business intelligence and data warehousing expertise in house?
- What kind of prep work needs to be done to your computer room?
- How much data cleansing and data extracting needs to be done?
- Do you need additional resources to help understand interactions with other databases?
- Do you need additional expertise to analyze your data or to assemble meta data?
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| The answers to these questions can help you map out a strategy for when and where you might need additional or higher level business intelligence services—and help best determine ways to expand the value of your investment in the Neoview data warehouse platform.
With this in mind—and in addition to the specific Foundation Services that come with every HP Neoview solution, HP Services provides a comprehensive set of optional Business Intelligence Services, including:
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