The Internet revolution
In the past thirty years, we have witnessed major changes in the way companies conduct their affairs, in comparison to the "old days". In the early 1900's, oil, coal and steam were the raw materials that fueled most of the factories of the industrial revolution, especially in North America. In today's modern times, whether your company is engaged in providing banking or financial services, or runs an international telephone network, manages shopping malls or office towers, or is involved in the transportation business, the raw material that fuels your organization and delivers its competitive edge in the global marketplace is information.
Consider these important facts:
The Internet is completely changing and revolutionizing the way
companies and people do business today. Mission-critical data
about your company, its on-going operations, all it's daily transactions
and sales, its key customers and suppliers, and, who are it's
competitors needs to be fully accessible by your company's top
management executives at the touch of a keyboard anywhere in the world.
Without solid, accurate information and rapid access to
that vital data, your company cannot compete any more than a steel
factory without coal can produce steel. In premium commercial real estate it is:
Location - Location - Location.
Today, in engineering, manufacturing, retail sales and marketing, it
is: INFORMATION - INFORMATION - INFORMATION. Thanks to
large-scale computer information systems over the last two
decades, there's no danger of an information shortage.
In fact, today's companies are producing more and more data. Data is a most valuable asset in any organization, in any industry. From the biggest corporate mainframes to desktops connected through Local Area Networks (LAN's)'s, right down to portable computers and laptops salespeople use daily, the companies that can retreive valuable corporate information will succeed. The problem is trying to find where all that data is exactly located ! Often, there are no practical tools or only the wrong tools for searching this valuable information and converting it in a format that will be useful to it's end users. This is where our Enterprise Rx Planner ™ and Datamart Builder ™ solutions come in. With a complete understanding of our easy to use Datamart Builder™ tools and applications, your company can literally strike a gold mine of information resources that enriches your competitive position as well as your bottom line.
What is a datamart ?
Generically, a datamart is a form of repository where you store valuable corporate
and business data of normal everyday activities in your company or
organization. Others in the industry refer to it as data warehouses.
We call it "Business Intelligence".
Business Intelligence or BI is a term for a set of applications and tools
developed by GCIS that allow corporate decision makers to retrieve, sort,
analyze, deploy and execute on critical business information, with goals
of helping companies make faster, better, and more informed business
decisions. Our successful Enterprise Rx Planner ™
solutions provide an integrated
view of all your business, extend analytical capabilities to its users and
leverages a corporation's data and expertise wherever that data and
expertise resides, when and where it is needed. From a management perspective,
a datamart is about taking on the
positive, proactive management of your corporation. From a technology
perspective, broadly speaking, it encompasses a range of intelligence
systems and analytical applications that include data warehouses and
marts, query tools, enterprise reporting tools, online analytical
processing (OLAP) engines and prepackaged queries, templates, and
reports.
Although business intelligence incorporates many of the same notions and tools as the decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems of twenty years ago, let's not confuse it with traditional DSS. It is different in many significant ways. Business-critical corporations currently operate on a global basis in "Internet time". Business and product life cycles have been sharply reduced. GCIS's corporate Web tools and e-Business applications and solutions today have a much wider and ever widening audience of target users. Corporate downsizing, re-engineering, and the basic and universal need to be more competitive have flattened corporate hierarchies and pushed decision making capabilities down the organization chart and out from the center, that is to division and department managers. Companies today need to produce more, but with less resources. Some corporations are even looking beyond those users, to front line office workers and salespeople to achieve their goals.
Internet based, easy to use GCIS enterprise intelligence tools and modular applications are increasingly being used today in all industries. As the number of users who need access to these mission-critical tools and analytical applications has risen sharply, companies have had to look for applications that are simpler to manage, with easier Web user interfaces and regular browsers like Internet Explorer and Netscape. Indeed, like everywhere else in computing, the Internet has a strong influence not only on how users interact with these tools but also on how they access them.
The popularity of Web business-content portals such as ours and regular / general-content portals such as Excite and Yahoo.com with their variations of providing a single, user-friendly entry point to a world of information sources is filtering into business. Prepackaged query templates and reports are also increasingly popular, again because of the need to give less technical users access to information. Operational traditional DSSs were designed to empower a small class of applications, usually those relating to sales and financial analysis. GCIS enterprise intelligence tools, datamarts and applications are all designed to broaden or extend DSS capabilities to include supporting applications such as human resources, supply chain management (SCM), and customer service.
Data warehouses and datamarts by and large are still constructed to store historical data on past operations. Additionally, our enterprise intelligence tools and applications apply the DSS functions that were once available only for viewing the past to today's online operational applications, those that capture the daily transactions within an enterprise, including accounting, manufacturing, supply chain, and even front office applications for customer relationship management (CRM) such as customer support and integrated call center tools. The General Center for Internet Services has at it's credit many long years of experience in building data management systems, effective business applications and solutions to corporate America. Solutions that enable you to do a lot more, with a lot less resources. This important performance improvement translates directly to your company's bottom line in:
Increased corporate profits.
Increased shareholder value.
Stronger marketing edge over your competition.
The most strategically intelligent businesses will remain competitive and thrive in the now global, inter-networked economy we have today thanks to the Internet. Companies that have an enterprise-wide view of key business operations and that have the tools to link business strategy with operational execution will not only survive but become rising stars ! Executive level business intelligence applications tools such as the ones developed by GCIS that fully address all these needs will become increasingly critical in the future as businesses strive to view, manage, and act quickly and strategically upon their growing data warehouses of information.
Getting started with our executive level tools...
We start with a detailed corporate business plan that integrates a
strong overall architecture rich in business and proven standards.
We want your executive management tools to be effective. We design all
our solutions to get the most out of your information assets by building
a superior enterprise intelligence system. The best place to start isn't
with better software itself. What you need first is a good business plan,
backed and supported by a strong team that knows business inside-out
like GCIS. As with any other IT initiative, MIS directors and corporate decision
makers backing strategic enterprise intelligence efforts should be fully
prepared to make a good business plan for the whole project and then
spell out the anticipated uses, costs, and related benefits. Increasingly
important are the estimated quarterly and yearly rise in sales resulting
from our proposed solution.
We will be more than happy to evaluate and discuss with you all your options. Feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience.
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