SQL Power Business Intelligence & Data Migration ConsultingThe Canadian Business Intelligence (BI) Authority, based in Toronto
Company OverviewConsulting ServicesMobile BIXBRL SolutionsCase Studies: Client Success StoriesResources & TrainingTechnology PartnersContact Us

Consulting Services

Consulting Services

 

Business Intelligence Consulting Services

For over 20 years, SQL Power has been helping organizations in Toronto, Canada and around the world implement successful Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions for a fraction of the cost.

Recognizing that a quick ROI is essential to ensuring the long-term commitment to a BI Program, SQL Power is a leader in delivering creative, cost-effective solutions to our clients, thus maintaining the credibility and longevity of their BI programs.

Our flexible approach to BI implementations and proven methodology pave the way for the scalability and natural evolution of the BI solution with the ever-changing business demands and competitive landscape.

Knowing that there is no "one size fits all" solution to the many varied and intricate business challenges, and given the strategic urgency for most BI requests, SQL Power has consistently met the challenge of delivering the right solution for our clients right now.

 

SQL Power's leadership and innovation over the years has led to early adoption of revolutionary BI Cost-reduction options, including:

Virtual Data Warehouse Promoting the merits of Cost-Effective BI Architecture like Virtual Data Warehousing (VDW) as a means to providing our clients with immediate value and results for their shrinking BI dollars
Low-Cost BI Tools Advocating the use of Low Cost BI Productivity Tools to automate, expedite and deliver every aspect of the end-to-end BI solution for our clients
Hybrid Resourcing Utilizing Hybrid Resourcing - a cost-effective resourcing road-map that helps organizations deliver much more for far less

 

Our long-term approach to doing business and our obsession with doing the right thing for our clients has blessed us with a long list of loyal customers, some of whom we've been working with continuously for over a decade.

SQL Power's creativity and expertise have allowed us to implement the right BI solution for our clients and has provided them with a quick ROI that continues to justify future BI Investments. We look forward to working with you and helping you implement the right cost-effective BI solution for your organization.

 

10 Ways to Reduce the Cost of your BI Program

  1. Utilize Free and/or Open Source BI Tools
  2. Consider alternate BI Architectures (including Operational BI and Virtual Data Warehousing)
  3. Decommission obsolete and lesser-used subject areas
  4. Eliminate all custom coding - utilize BI Productivity tools instead
  5. Reduce the number of Data Marts - utilize an EDW for most BI Analytics and Reporting
  6. Replace on-site Consulting development resources with cheaper near-shore resources
  7. Utilize junior staff for Q/A and ETL Development
  8. Replace end-user BI Reporting (consumer) licenses with a Free Deployment BI Tool
  9. Offload BI Report Development to end-users
  10. Utilize cloud computing instead of dedicated servers to house your BI database platform

 

SQL Power Consulting Services

Data Migration

Data Migration

For a fraction of the anticipated cost, SQL Power can help with even the most complex data migration efforts and help you meet your short term data conversion needs. This includes data cleansing, data auditing, data analysis, data mapping and data transformation.

XBRL Implementation

XBRL Implementation

Implementing XBRL reduces costs, improves quality and resolves inefficiencies

XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) is being adopted all around the world to address the problems of inefficiency in Business Reporting. The implementation and deployment of XBRL will drastically reduce the costs of information collection and validation as well as internal information conversion and dissemination, thereby drastically reducing the cost of information exchange.

BI Strategic Planning

Business Intelligence Strategic Planning

Implement a strategy that facilitates truly insightful decision-making.

Timely access to relevant, correct and complete information is critical to decision making in today's fast paced environment. Successful organizations typically have the right data at the right time to make the decisions that allow them to leapfrog their competitors, by gaining insight on trends, customers, and opportunities.

We have the expertise to help you define and implement the right BI Strategy so that your business has the Business Intelligence it needs to thrive in this difficult and highly competitive global market.

Business Intelligence Consulting

Business Intelligence Consulting

Through a proven Data Warehouse design philosophy, SQL Power consultants have successfully architected and implemented numerous complex Data Warehouse and Data Mart projects. These experiences have equipped our consultants with numerous proven solutions to the many intricate Data Warehousing problems. Having these readily available solutions in our artillery serves to expedite our data warehousing implementations, and affords us the ability to concentrate on our clients' truly unique data issues.

Data Cleansing

Data Quality & Data Cleansing

Provides expert data cleansing, de-duping and address correction to maximize the accuracy and integrity of your data.

SQL Power Data Cleansing Services will scrub your data, validate and correct addresses, identify and remove duplicates, and build cross-references between source and target tables. This results in giving your end-users complete and accurate data, and a single 360-degree view of each customer, product, sales rep and business unit. We can guarantee the integrity of your decision support database, thus providing your users with a clean, reliable and accurate Business Intelligence environment.

Data Auditing

Data Auditing

Providing initial & ongoing data audits to ensure the integrity of your Business Intelligence database

The cost of making business decisions based on incomplete or inaccurate data can be huge: even the best executives can make the wrong business decision when it's based on the wrong data. SQL Power helps you avoid this with automated data auditing solutions that allow you to uncover data discrepancies BEFORE the business users do.

Real-Time BI

Real-Time BI

A Real-Time Data Solution for Reporting, Dashboards & Analysis

Bundles SQLstream's Real-Time data technology with SQL Power's Wabit Enterprise reporting tool to deliver affordable, real-time performance metrics. Real-Time BI enables companies to make their decisions based on live (sub-second delayed) streaming data - ensuring the best-informed decisions based on the most recent information.

Rapid Business Intelligence

Rapid BI

Delivers reliable Business Intelligence Metrics in just 30 days

In 30 days or less, our Business Intelligence experts will flesh out and confirm your BI requirements, design and build the right BI solution, and deliver critical key performance metrics to your decision makers.

BI Conversion

BI Conversion Services

Reduce ongoing maintenance costs without losing functionality by converting your BI platform to low-cost Open Source

More and more organizations around the world are reducing their BI system maintenance costs by switching to Open Source BI Tools. We will prove to you that our Open Source BI tools can meet your needs with a free demonstration, and proof of concept consisting of sample reports.

Pharma Data Warehouse

PharmaDW

A complete Business Intelligence Solution, pre-configured to meet the specific needs of Canadian Pharmaceutical Professionals

Custom-built Business Intelligence solutions take years to build and often cost millions of dollars - not to mention the ongoing software licensing fees that continue to plague cost-conscious IT managers and project sponsors. SQL Power's PharmaDW has been designed to address these issues and provide a low-cost turn-key BI solution to value oriented clients.

Data Warehouse Doctor

Data Warehouse Doctor

Provides regular DW check-ups to keep your organization pumping at peak efficiency

A complete check-up on your Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence environment, outlining shortfalls and recommending improvements for every aspect of your Business Intelligence environment.

 

Other Consulting Services

SQL Power has been providing clients with expert database consulting services since 1988. These services range from architecture and planning, application design/development, to data warehousing and performance measurement.

Through a proven SDLC process, SQL Power consultants have successfully architected, developed and implemented numerous complex development projects, meeting our clients' business requirements and exceeding their expectations.

Our highly trained consultants can assist with the following tasks:

  • Data Architecture
  • Project management and Planning
  • Business analysis and requirement definition
  • Logical and physical database design
  • Application design and development
  • Data analysis, data mapping and data conversion
  • Database de-duping (duplicate data removal)
  • Application and database tuning
  • Management and Business Intelligence reporting

We pride ourselves on being database experts. Our success and unmatched track record in this arena can be attributed to our proven database design philosophy, highly trained consultants and the use of high-end productivity tools. We deliver end-users a truly flexible and scalable data warehouse or performance measurement environment that is well documented and easy to maintain.

 

Member Log-in

Email/ID

Password

Need an account?
Register for free