If your organization is like most, the process of integrating and storing your organizational data effectively can be daunting. Why? Because your data probably resides in multiple systems and lacks consistency. This makes it difficult for you and your people to access the data for meaningful insights.

Data warehousing can help you provide insight into corporate data through an integrated, centrally managed, and trusted data source.

Additionally, it's likely that the people in your organization are inundated with data—from formal information from structured sources to RSS feeds, information in e-mails, numbers from Wall Street, and on and on.

It's a constant struggle to provide people with tools to report on and analyze all that information while remaining focused on constantly moving business targets. People need access to the right information at the right time and to decision-making tools that fit their work processes.

Here's your ideal situation: everybody in your organization sees the decisions they make in the context of the big picture, and every decision is aligned with company goals and strategy.

These capabilities are possible by leveraging Business Intelligence.  THG’s Business Intelligence Practice leverages Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint to a powerful applications that provides you with the infrastructure to link people at all levels of your organization—whether they're executives, line-of-business managers, or individual contributors—to your overall corporate strategy.

A BI solution must have the flexibility to work the way you do. It has to fit the context of your decision making, provide the information you need, and be available in a format that suits the people who will be using the information.

When you think of what you do daily, what emerges is a continuum, with information and insight flowing steadily among three main categories of BI: personal, team, and organizational.

Personal BI: You often use information solely for your own purposes. Perhaps you've put together a brief report to see if a business deal makes sense. It could be a visual diagram to identify if you have the right resources to get a job done on time and under budget. Your personal BI could be an Outlook task list, a CRM call sheet, or a production report. Whatever it is, you created it to support your individual decision making within the context of your job. However, it still needs to be trusted, secure, and reliable so you can make the right decision.

Team BI: Whatever its size, your organization has teams that drive toward common goals. Although they align with the organization, team needs are always a little bit different. You need a BI environment that enables you to share information within and across various groups, so everyone can make informed decisions. A successful BI system will meet your team needs and personal BI requirements—allowing you the flexibility to collaborate within the natural flow of your work without compromising security and trust and ensuring that all team members have the latest reliable information.

Organizational BI: How does your organization measure success? How do individuals and teams in the organization contribute to that success? How do you coordinate their efforts? Organizational BI is made up of the centralized analyses, measurements, plans, and reports that clarify team and individual goals. At the same time, organizational BI is tempered by the flow of insight emerging from teams and individuals across the organization.