Welcome to Peopleturf Info Services...a business intelligence company

Create the best use of Business Intelligence tools to access the right information, explore it, and share consistent reports across your enterprise and beyond.

Get better insight into your organization. Business Objects Web Intelligence is one of the primary tools that Peopleturf implements to easily track, understand and manage organizational data over intranets and extranets, while maintaining tight security over data access. Throughout your organization and across multiple platforms, Peopleturf’s consultants will help you deliver a solution that provides powerful ad-hoc, reporting and analysis capabilities.

For those customers who need a powerful desktop client tool for analyzing offline data, Peopleturf helps you implement and share Desktop Intelligence reports throughout your organization. Because of our deep-rooted relationship with Business Objects and legacy Desktop Intelligence platforms, we have extensive experience in developing and maintaining Desktop Intelligence reports.

Web Intelligence or Desktop Intelligence makes business intelligence accessible for users of all skill levels. Casual users are empowered to create reports and analyze the data themselves via step-by-step report creation and one-click, on-report analysis. Advanced users can create sophisticated multi-block reports with powerful calculations, filters and drill-through analysis. Peopleturf provides you with a solution that leverages your investment by transferring our knowledge and experience throughout your organization.

Peopleturf provides solutions that offer the most efficient means of delivering, formatting and viewing your data. When companies don't have sufficient time to draft highly-formatted reports, they turn to Peopleturf as an extension of their development staff. Our report developers serve to complement your staffing needs for either specific projects or long-term requirements for customized, interactive and professional-looking Crystal Reports. Whether we are creating new reports or reviewing existing ones, Peopleturf will help you make the most of Crystal Report's powerful design environment.

Make clear decisions in implementing a comprehensive Business Intelligence solution. We centralize and consolidate your valuable business logic. We carefully explain the impact of your decisions. We help you overcome obstacles to ensure a successful BI strategy.Whether creating Crystal Reports, securing data, or implementing intelligent report delivery solutions, we provide detailed documentation which outlines the completed work. We communicate recommendations to help you maintain a useful Business Intelligence platform. And, we will work closely with your staff to transfer our knowledge so you can maintain and evolve your business intelligence platform.Peopleturf provides solutions around:

Complex formulas: converted and formatted data in exactly the format you would expect.
Complex formatting: techniques for a visual experience that matches your expectations.
Graphical data visualization: visually appealing charts and graphs.
Trend charts and analytics: decision-making tools allowing you to adjust to changes within your organization or industry.
Transactional databases: useful and comprehensive reports derived from highly normalized OLTP data sources.
Report bursting: individualized reports scheduled and delivered from a single source to a diverse set of users.

Peopleturf uses Dashboard Builder and Performance Manager to provide your enterprise with dashboards, balanced scorecards, performance monitoring and alerting capabilities. We specialize in using these capabilities to provide you with a customized business intelligence solution designed to improve your organizational effectiveness. You will gain broad visibility into the current status of your business, enabling you to track how your organization is performing against your strategic goals and how day-to-day execution is aligned with corporate strategy. With this you can view your performance and then dynamically drill into existing reports to help you understand how and why.

For those organizations needing deeper analysis, Peopleturf uses the Business Object's analytical engines to provide your enterprise with:

Set Analysis: Segment customers, products, or other business information so that you can fully understand your main business drivers. Easily track the migration of customers between business segments so that you can better understand how your business is changing.
Predictive Analysis: Anticipate customer business behaviour and take pre-emptive action. Understand the underlying drivers behind customer behaviours.

Statistical Process Control: Improve the quality of your products and services through automatic monitoring and sharing of process quality information across your organization.

Peopleturf implements solutions using Crystal Xcelsius Enterprise and its visually stunning analytics. With Crystal Xcelsius, Peopleturf creates interactive visual models that let executives plan ahead, identify critical data relationships, prototype complex "what if" scenarios, and peer into your company's possible future performance. We help you discover the best ways to distribute and deploy Xcelsius Dashboards, while providing multiple options for connecting directly to your live corporate databases.

At the core of almost every Business Objects implementation is the semantic layer. This metadata layer simplifies communication between the business-user and the complex language of the database. A semantic layer has several important benefits:

Insulates end users from the complexities of the database
Enforces security
Provides a consistent and clear view of data
Increased end-user accuracy and productivity
Empowering end users to access data without the reliance on IT.

Business Objects Universe

Empowers your end users to easily create reports and analyze data, decreasing their dependency on your valuable IT resources by leveraging the power of the BusinessObjects Universe. Peopleturf can provide a solution to help you deploy an easy to use and understand interface for non technical Web Intelligence users to run queries against a database, to create reports and to perform data analysis. Peopleturf provides solutions that:

Utilize advanced row level security techniques.
Shield end users from complex and proprietary database structures.
Intuitively map database fields to Universe objects and classes in easily understood Business Terms.
Quickly and efficiently aggregate data used for analysis across multiple fact tables.

Business Views

Peopleturf has extensive experience creating comprehensive semantic layers for our clients utilizing the power of BusinessObjects Enterprise repository and the Business View manager. We implement Business Views to help our clients:

Integrate data from disparate sources into a centralized and intuitive format.
Implement best practices for preserving and centralizing business logic by leveraging the benefits of the Business View repository.
Create List of Values that enable dynamic reporting.

Peopleturf will work with you to develop and deliver secure reporting data sources by leveraging the BusinessObjects Enterprise platform in combination with the Business View manager and Universe Designer.

Need a single data mart or a full-scale data warehouse? How about an entirely new design or an augmentation to an existing one? Peopleturf's flexible methodology enables us to take on data warehouse projects of any size at any stage. Our phased approach allows for end users to have access to the end product sooner.

A well-designed data model is the cornerstone of any successful data warehouse. Peopleturf designs both physical and logical data models for all leading database management systems. Data is the most important part of the data warehouse applications. However, data in a structure that does not support the business needs will not be used. A good model combines critical elements of both business requirements and data.

A BI initiative is as good as the data delivered to the end user. In order to achieve a high level of data quality, you need a process and well-defined structure in place. Utilizing Business Objects Data Quality XI, Peopleturf ensures efficient data governance and high data quality. Data quality is contingent upon a proper data cleansing process. In fact, data cleansing is often considered the most important part of data warehousing. Peopleturf ensures your data quality, standardizing data elements to ensure record consistency and accuracy.

ETL is the mechanism by which data integration, cleansing and warehouse/mart loading is achieved. Whether ETL is used as part of a business intelligence initiative or part of an operational process, Peopleturf will design and develop any ETL job. Utilizing a feature-rich ETL tool allows for greater management flexibility, ease of maintenance and significantly reduced development time.

Once we complete your Data Integrator deployment, you will be able to design, test, debug, edit, maintain, run, and monitor data integration jobs from one interface, using one product, one environment, and one sign-on. The easy-to-use design environment and built-in data preview, profiling, and debugging capabilities help you manage growing data volumes while lowering your overall system maintenance costs so you get the best return on your existing IT investments.

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What is Business Intelligence?

Business intelligence (BI) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analyzing, and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. BI applications include the activities of decision support systems, query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting, and data mining.

A successful BI platform has to support all the information access, interaction, and analysis needs of the different profiles of users across your organization, on the basis of a common framework.

Benefits of Business Intelligence

Because of the wide applicability of BI in both enterprise and extranet deployments, the business benefits are numerous. These benefits can be grouped into three main categories:

·         lowering costs
·         increasing revenue and
·         improving customer satisfaction

This list is far from exhaustive, since empowered users continue to find new ways to implement BI.Business Intelligence / Data warehousing Peopleturf provides comprehensive business intelligence (BI) solutions that allow users to access analyze and share information stored in multiple data sources within and beyond your enterprise. Peopleturf turns your business data into a wealth of information that enables you to make better business decisions

Peopleturf provides four main types of solutions

·        Business Intelligence
·        Data Warehousing
·        Deployments and Migrations
·        Enterprise Performance Management

Business Intelligence

Peopleturf’s experienced consultants know how to make the best use of BI tools that will enable you to access the information you need, analyze it, and share standardized reports across your enterprise and beyond. We can help you in all aspects of your Business Intelligence strategy including staffing needs on individual projects, leadership in implementing a sound solution or a long-term partnership. Throughout the evolution of your Business Intelligence we can help you implement:

Reporting and Analysis

Query and Analysis with Web Intelligence & Desktop Intelligence:

Reporting with Crystal Reports:

Complex formulas: converted and formatted data in exactly the format you would expect.
Complex formatting: techniques for a visual experience that matches your expectations.
Graphical data visualization: visually appealing charts and graphs.
Trend charts and analytics: decision-making tools allowing you to adjust to changes within your organization or industry.
Transactional databases: useful and comprehensive reports derived from highly normalized OLTP data sources.
Report bursting: individualized reports scheduled and delivered from a single source to a diverse set of users.

Enterprise Performance Management

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a critical component to any company’s success. At its core is BusinessObjects Planning, a comprehensive budget, planning and strategic forecasting application. Planning allows a company to measure its performance and ultimately drive increased profitability.In addition to planning,

Activity-Based Costing allows a company to break down components of their profit into customers, product and channel, and pinpoint areas of where they are most profitable.Peopleturf’s consultants have many years of experience in implementing EPM solutions for different vertical markets including insurance, banking, retail and healthcare. In addition, we have core Business Objects expertise, which gives us the ability to help you implement and optimize your end-to-end EPM enterprise solution.

Dashboards and Visualization

The key to maximizing the return on your business intelligence investment often lies in streamlining your interface to provide optimum usability. That's why Peopleturf delivers solutions using Business Object's Dashboard Builder, Performance Manager, Analytic Engines and Crystal Xcelsius. Our experience will enable you in the following areas:

Dashboard Builder and Performance Manager:

Analytic Engines:

Data Visualization with Crystal Xcelsius:

Semantic Layer Design

Business Objects Universes and Business Views:

Insulates end users from the complexities of the database
Enforces security
Provides a consistent and clear view of data
Increased end-user accuracy and productivity
Empowering end users to access data without the reliance on IT.

Business Objects Universe

Utilize advanced row level security techniques.
Shield end users from complex and proprietary database structures.
Intuitively map database fields to Universe objects and classes in easily understood Business Terms.
Quickly and efficiently aggregate data used for analysis across multiple fact tables.

Business Views

Integrate data from disparate sources into a centralized and intuitive format.
Implement best practices for preserving and centralizing business logic by leveraging the benefits of the Business View repository.
Create List of Values that enable dynamic reporting.

Data Warehousing

The first step to incorporate a business intelligence solution is often the most daunting one - gathering data from disparate sources and placing it in a structure that supports reporting and analysis. This task is especially difficult when you are compiling data from complex or multiple underlying systems.
Peopleturf focuses on providing you with an open and scalable information infrastructure that will meet your long-term needs as your data volumes and IT complexity grow. Our experts know how to transform data into a corporate asset and ensure that your staff is working with timely and accurate information. Business Objects Data Integrator is one of the primary tools that Peopleturf uses for end-to-end integration, metadata and monitoring of source systems.

Our highly specialized expertise covers all aspects of the data warehousing lifecycle, including:

Data warehouse / Data mart

Data modeling

Data quality and cleansing

Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL)

Deployments and Migrations

Deployments

For initial deployments of the Business Objects Enterprise Platform or Business Objects Crystal Decisions (Mid Market), Peopleturf can be a valuable extension of your team. Our consultants will lead you through the technical aspects of any installation, including advanced topics such as:

Infrastructure recommendations
Server configurations
Cluster configurations
High availability configurations
Authentication and authorization methods (such as LDAP, Active Directory, Etc...)
Row-level security

Migrations

We bring extensive knowledge and best practices in both Crystal Reports/Crystal Enterprise and Business Objects migrations. Our services teams are trained on migration techniques from Business Objects 4, 5 & 6 and Crystal Enterprise 7, 8, 9 & 10 to the latest version, XIR2.

Deployment Recommendations and Readiness Assessments

Business Objects XIR2 allows for extensive deployment options for clients with clustering and redundancy. Rely on Peopleturf’s proven deployment techniques to ensure the highest quality of service. We’ll provide guidance and support for your vertical and horizontal deployments on UNIX, Linux and Windows architectures for web, application servers and database servers.

Security

Peopleturf provides a comprehensive security solution for your Business Intelligence platform. We deliver your reports in a secure and dynamic fashion. We deploy your platform using security standards and best practices. We implement SSL protection. Moreover, our consultants are skilled in deployments involving even the most complex firewall configurations and network typologies.

Consulting

Whether you are planning a new Business Intelligence project, having challenges delivering an existing one or are short of a specific skill, your success will depend upon you working with the best people. At Peopleturf we are proud of our people.

They have the experience, training and knowledge to successfully deliver your solution.

We believe that our ability to understand your business requirements is as important as our technical knowledge. That is why we start by listening to your needs, your experiences and your challenges, so that we build the understanding we need to really help you.

If you are looking for Business Objects or Crystal or a partner to deliver a complete Business Intelligence solution then Peopleturf’s people will deliver.

Benefits of using Peopleturf

The task of implementing business intelligence solutions can be a daunting one, which is why Peopleturf exists. We provide the knowledge and expertise of a leading and well-established Business Intelligence consultancy, whilst working closely with you to deliver tailor-made solutions, on time and to budget.

Business Intelligence Consultancy

Peopleturf has helped companies implement solutions that process data and present it in ways that can be used immediately, without hours of tedious interpretation and cross analysis. Our missionis to help you to turn data into understanding and understanding into action.

Using Business Objects our experienced consultants will work with you to design, develop and deliver business intelligence, performance management and portal solutions that will add real value to your business.

Experienced BI Consultants

Our experienced consultants offer a tailored approach and will work closely with you to address and evaluate the issues affecting your business, designing business intelligence, performance management and portal solutions to suit your specific needs and add real value to your business. Using Peopleturf to address your business intelligence needs offers you the confidence that your specific objectives are being met by experienced and professional consultants, giving you the power to get back in control of your data.

Professional Services

Peopleturf’s consultants will evaluate your current technology configuration, dynamic business needs and time constraints when customizing your business intelligence plan. In our approach to providing BI implementation services, we will:

Assess the scope of your business intelligence needs
Design a BI solution that incorporates your specific business and technical requirements.
Build a BI solution using the appropriate products, eliminating the risk of software incompatibility and establishing a sound security environment.
Deploy a tested and proven business intelligence solution, with the goal of quick successes and knowledge transfer for self-sufficiency.
Evolve the solution over time to enhance functionality to meet your growing business needs, while ensuring proper server capacity and upgrades to accommodate your growing data needs

Training

Stay ahead of constantly changing technologies by investing in your enterprise's most important asset -- your people.

Employee knowledge and skills gaps have a direct impact on an organization's bottom line, profit margins, and revenue-per-employee. For these reasons, best-in-class companies are leaders in training their employees. They understand the direct connection between training and return-on-investment (ROI).

Peopleturf delivers exceptional and cost-effective training through a comprehensive series of courses, providing the up-to-date knowledge and skills needed to maximize your Business Intelligence (BI) investment.

Every business intelligence solution is unique. And so are the training needs for different users. Whether you are training 10 or 10,000 users, Peopleturf offers a variety of training options designed to help them become more productive and efficient with your business intelligence investment.

Peopleturf is an Authorized Education partner for Business Objects and we provide end-to-end client education solutions at different levels of expertise. These provide the critical skills needed to execute faster and more efficiently, utilizing the latest technologies.

We work with your organization to design an effective education strategy that adjusts to every user level and skill set need, including:

Instructor Led Training

Training is most effective when users are able to relate the technology to their jobs. Our Instructor Led Training options feature an approved core curriculum that can be customized with exercises built upon your environment.

Business Objects XI R2

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