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Data Warehouse

Business executives and managers typically analyze quarterly results and performance and compare them to the prior quarter and to the same quarter from the previous year. Traditional excel spreadsheets are generated and distributed, including to executives, to managers, to the sales force (customized for each person), and to other employees. These sheets often contain data, which provides benchmarks, forecasts, and goals. This traditional method of data gathering, reporting, and distribution is time consuming and limited - enabling managers to only view status reports and only allows a company to see its state on a quarterly basis, after the fact.

A data warehouse helps a company to

create and generate reports automatically
distribute reports on a daily basis, with up to the minute information

To do this, a reporting engine must be provided that combines invoices, opens invoices, opens timesheets and budget information as well as any other information relevant to the enterprise. The information is consolidated and can be viewed in a hierarchical approach (numbers by state, county, city, office, sales team, sales person). It can also be dissected by data range, product group and other input variables.

Views can be customized and information tailored to specific employee functions, displaying only the data relevant to the employee, the division, the department, the store, the region, the whole company, etc. A data warehouse is a powerful management tool, which can also enable a sales force to monitor its own performance. Click on case studies below to learn more about specific, data warehouse solutions created by headwire.

Data Warehouse

Case Studies