IT Department (Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse)

Complex database queries take the data warehouse beyond traditional business intelligence reporting.

The typical combination of business intelligence applications and relational database data warehouse technolgy has become very efficient at providing common, backward-looking reports. Where traditional business intelligence / data warehouse systems fail is in answering questions that are unforseen, exploratory, probing...in short, interesting. The enormous effort expended on making current systems answer such questions—and the disappointing results—have left both business users and IT staff frustrated.

illuminate is different. With a data warehouse structure ideally suited for ad hoc analysis, it lets business users ask questions that current business intelligence applications can't answer. All without any restructuring or re-indexing effort by IT.

These are just a few examples of how illuminate can help you, as an IT specialist, and your IT department in general, in fulfilling the business intelligence and data warehouse needs of your organization:

• Eliminate the need to restructure the data warehouse when new datasets are added;
• Very quickly design and build your data warehouse (months become days);
• Eliminate the need to run business intelligence reports or analysis on production databases;
• Reduce the large amount of time spent on building, and re-building reports;
• Reduce the large amount of time spent on building complex queries;
• Reduce the time it takes to run complex queries (hours become seconds);
• Allow your "internal customers" to see detail data, not only aggregates;
• Move a lot of the business intelligence work from IT to the business user; and
• Analyze IT system and network usage.