This document provides an agenda and overview for a seminar on business intelligence (BI) solutions using Microsoft technologies. The agenda covers introductions, an overview of the consulting firm CRG and their BI capabilities, a demonstration of Microsoft's BI platform, and a discussion of CRG's implementation approach. The overview explains the purpose of BI in providing the right information to decision-makers, and outlines Microsoft's vision and principles for BI, as well as the components of their modular BI platform, including SQL Server, Integration Services, Analysis Services, and Reporting Services.

1. www.crgroup.com
6 Antares Drive, Phase 1, Suite 200, Ottawa, ON K2E 8A9 Canada Tel: 613.232.4295 Fax: 613.232.7276

2. Agenda
Introductions
About CRG
Seminar Objectives
The What and Why of BI
Microsoft Business Intelligence
Product Demonstration
CRG Implementation Approach
Q&A and Next Steps
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3. CRG Overview
Founded in 1989
We are global company with offices in Canada, South
Africa, India and the United States
Thousands of companies use CRG solutions
Partnered with industry leaders:
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4. CRG Solutions and Services
Management Consulting
Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Shared Services,
Activity-based Costing/Management, Planning and Budgeting,
Shareholder Value Creation
Business Management Solutions
Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, Microsoft Dynamics ™ CRM, Microsoft®
Business Solutions Small Business Financials
Business Performance Products
Microsoft 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.

5. Some Key Customers
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Why BI?
The Five Questions
• What happened? Past
• What is happening?
• Why did it happen? Present
• What will happen?
• What do I want to happen? Future
Data Black
ERP CRM SCM 3Pty books
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9. Common Pain Points...
Data everywhere, information no where
Different users have different needs
Excel versus PDF
Pull versus push
On demand – on schedule
Your format – my format
Takes too long – wasted resources/efforts
Security
Technical “mumbo jumbo” … Why I just can’t get it to
you when you want it.
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10. Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision
Improving organizations by
providing business insights
to all employees leading to
better, faster, more
relevant decisions
Advanced Analytics
Self Service Reporting
End-User Analysis
Business Performance Management
Operational Applications
Embedded Analytics
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11. Microsoft BI Principles
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12. 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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13. Microsoft BI Platform
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14. Microsoft BI Platform
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15. SQL Server Database Management
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.
Business Intelligence Platform
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16. SQL Server Integration Services
Provides 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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17. SQL Server Analysis Services
Allows 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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18. SQL Server Reporting Services
Provides 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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19. Microsoft BI Platform
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20. Microsoft Excel 2007
End User Tools & Performance Management
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21. Office PerformancePoint Server 2007
Planning
 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
End User Tools & Performance Management
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22. Microsoft BI Platform
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23. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
Key
Benefit:
makes
informat
ion
easy to
access
and
use.
Brings
the
Collaboration “Self-
Conten
t Mana Service
Search Share Point Server gemen
t
” to BI.
Delivery
Serves
Excel Analytic
Reports Dashboards Scorecards as the
Plans
Workbooks Views
central
access
point for 23

24. 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.
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25. Product Demonstration & Roadmap
Reporting services
(design–build–deploy)
Excel 2007 (familiar world)
ProClarity - Analytics
PerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007)
(plan–monitor–analyze)
SharePoint Server

26. CRG Offers
Knowledge
Experience
Vision
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27. Our Capabilities
CRG 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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28. Our Implementation Objectives
Our 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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29. Our Implementation Approach
Focus 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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30. CRG Implementation Approach
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31. The End Result

32. Q&A and Next Steps
For 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. 286
Vijay Jog
vjog@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 228
John Smith
jsmith@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 239
May Abouseido
may@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 226
Kobana Abukari
kabuari@crgroup.com | 613.232.4295 ext. 227
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Business 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
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