As retail markets become increasingly competitive, the ability to react quickly and decisively to market trends and to tailor products and services to individual clients is more critical than ever. A business intelligence system can be a very effective means of organizing and analyzing the vast amount of information generated in a retail business, and help you generate a more effective business model for keeping your business profitable.

The client in order to manage its business is implementing an ERP built for the textile industry and to facilitate management reporting across the length and breadth of the organisation, is looking for one business intelligence tool.

The client has been experiencing significant growth in its business but found that its management reporting system did not scale very well with this growth. Below is a list of challenges that the client faced with its existing system.

Inadequate Performance: The existing system did not handle large volumes of data well. As a result response times of the system were becoming unacceptable. This had a major client impact, because this tool was used by the client’s clients to view/manage their transaction data.

The client now has a blue print for laying down its roadmap to meet their requirements for the information within the required time frame with. The client is now in a better position to meet the execution challenges for its growing number of client/products. The new system enabled the client to service its clients more effectively. TIS also allowed the client to deal with growth pressures by creating a more scalable system.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with reporting services