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Agenda

IntroductionsAbout CRGSeminar ObjectivesThe What and Why of BIMicrosoft Business Intelligence Product DemonstrationCRG Implementation ApproachQ&A and Next Steps

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CRG Overview

Founded in 1989We are global company with offices in Canada, South Africa, India and the United StatesThousands of companies use CRG solutionsPartnered with industry leaders:

CRG Solutions and ServicesManagement ConsultingBusiness Intelligence, Performance Management, Shared Services, Activity-based Costing/Management, Planning and Budgeting, Shareholder Value Creation

Business Management SolutionsMicrosoft Dynamics™ GP, Microsoft Dynamics ™ CRM, Microsoft® Business Solutions Small Business Financials

Business Performance ProductsMicrosoft Dynamics GP Add-on Products, EmPerform, FlexABM, Enterprise Scorecard, Cost Allocator, Shared Services Manager (SSM), eSurvey

All our solutions are designed to fulfill our mission:

Driving Better Business Management and Performance.

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Some Key Customers

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Seminar Objectives

Provide you with a general understanding of Business Intelligence (BI).Share with you the Microsoft BI strategy and solution.Describe our capabilities and experience in implementing BI solutions.Answer your questions and help you with your BI journey.

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What is Business Intelligence?Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time. BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making.BI leads to:

fact-based decision making “single version of the truth”

BI includes reporting and analytics.

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Why BI?The Five Questions

• What happened?• What is happening?• Why did it happen?• What will happen?• What do I want to happen?

ERPERP CRMCRM 3Pty3PtySCMSCM Black Black booksbooks

Past

Present

Future

Data

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Common Pain Points...

Data everywhere, information no whereDifferent users have different needs

Excel versus PDFPull versus pushOn demand – on scheduleYour format – my format

Takes too long – wasted resources/effortsSecurityTechnical “mumbo jumbo” … Why I just can’t get it to you when you want it.

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Improving organizations by Improving organizations by providing business insights providing business insights to to allall employees leading to employees leading to better, faster, more better, faster, more relevant decisionsrelevant decisions

Advanced AnalyticsAdvanced AnalyticsSelf Service ReportingSelf Service ReportingEnd-User AnalysisEnd-User AnalysisBusiness Performance ManagementBusiness Performance ManagementOperational Applications Operational Applications

Embedded AnalyticsEmbedded Analytics

Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision

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Microsoft BI Principles

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Microsoft BI Growth: Gaining Ground

“Microsoft's BI Tools revenue growth in 2005 was more than 25 percent, growing at more than twice the rate of the overall market. …Microsoft's impact on the BI tools market cannot be overemphasized. This impact will mark an evolutionary change that has been put into motion by the database vendors overall and will reshape the BI tools market over the next 15 years.”

Dan Vesset, IDC

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Microsoft BI Platform

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Microsoft BI Platform

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SQL Server Database Management

Business Intelligence Platform

SQL Server Relational Database – provides a robust, scalable and enterprise-ready Data Warehouse platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has improved partitioning, manageability, and query optimizations to streamline data warehouse operations and increase performance.Many Business Solutions and systems currently use this database.

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SQL Server Integration ServicesProvides functionality commonly referred to as Extract, Transform, Load (ETL).Moves and transforms data between sources and destinations, regardless of format. Cleanses data and ensures data integrity.Integrates heterogeneous data sources.

Business Intelligence Platform

Source: 2007 Microsoft® Office System Business Intelligence Integration, White Paper, February 1, 2007, Anthony T. Mann

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SQL Server Analysis ServicesAllows for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), commonly referred to as “cubes”. Includes advanced analytical features such as complete data mining and key performance indicator frameworks. Enables organizations to accommodate multiple analytic needs within one solution.

Business Intelligence Platform

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SQL Server Reporting ServicesProvides a complete reporting platform so that end-users can view data using a Web browser or desk top. Includes report authoring tools for both technical developers and business users.Allows web-based viewing and rendering in popular document formats such as Microsoft Excel and PDF.Contains robust e-mail subscription capability.

Business Intelligence Platform

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Microsoft BI Platform

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End User Tools & Performance Management

Microsoft Excel 2007

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End User Tools & Performance Management

Office PerformancePoint Server 2007Planning Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and

budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy.

Monitoring and Analysis Powerful analytics capabilities empower business users to

access data and to perform analyses on their own so that they can make better, faster decisions.

Release scheduled for Q4, 2007

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Microsoft BI Platform

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Delivery

Reports Excel WorkbooksDashboards Scorecards Analytic

Views Plans

SearchContent Management

Collaboration

Share Point Server

Microsoft Office SharePoint ServerKey Benefit: makes information easy to access and use.Brings the “Self-Service” to BI.Serves as the central access point for all reports and business data.Provides integration to Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel, ProClarity Analytics, Dashboards (currently known as Business Scorecard Manager) and PerformancePoint Server.Allows users to collaborate, annotate and search.Stores documents in a document library.

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What We Like About the Microsoft BI Platform?

We believe that Microsoft offers superior value for the following reasons:It’s affordable and leverages existing investments. In many cases the organization already own the

Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office licenses.It’s modular–organizations can deploy it all at once or one piece at a time. For instance, one can start with Reporting Services and

cubes and then integrate everything with SharePoint.Microsoft is focused on the end-user experience and making BI easy to use.

Product Demonstration & Roadmap

Reporting services (design–build–deploy)

Excel 2007 (familiar world)ProClarity - AnalyticsPerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007) (plan–monitor–analyze)

SharePoint Server

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CRG OffersKnowledgeExperience Vision

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Our CapabilitiesCRG has a talented, experienced group of professional consultants that can help you successfully implement any or all of your BI solution.Our business team consists of MBAs, CAs, CMAs, CGAs and CFAs.Our technical team consists of Microsoft-Certified consultants who have many years of experience implementing Business Intelligence solutions.We believe in the dedicated involvement of both business and technical consultants who also provide post-implementation support and training.

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Our Implementation ObjectivesOur primary goal is to ensure that… We understand the business requirements – we

prefer to start with the highest pain point. We can provide cost-effective solutions that meets

business requirements. We can provide a superior end-user experience.

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Our Implementation ApproachFocus on the immediate pain point and delivery and deployment paths

Domain: Sales, Financial Reporting, Product Development, Projects, HR, Operations, Inventories, Purchasing, etc.Deployment: Reports, PDFs, cubes, push-pull, briefing books, URLs, IPAQ, Browser, etc.

Develop a prototype solution.Validate the prototype against the business needs.Finalize and implement the automated solution. Train the users. Deploy the solution across the organization. Move on to the next pain point.

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CRG Implementation Approach

The End Result

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Q&A and Next StepsFor more information, please contact us at:www.crgroup.com | 613.232.4295

Doug Hum, Director, Marketing and Business Development dhum@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 286Vijay Jog

vjog@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 228John Smith

jsmith@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 239May Abouseido

may@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 226Kobana Abukari

kabuari@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 227

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Solutions Small Business Financials, Excel, Microsoft Office, ProClarity Analytics, PerformancePoint Server 2007, Internet Explorer, SharePoint Server 2007, Business Scorecard Manager, SQL Server 2005, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation, in the United States and/or other countries. The names of actual company and products mentioned may be the trademark of their respective owner.

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