"First of Its Kind in Price and Capability within the IBM Business Analytics Marketplace"
Performance Strategy Analytics (PSA) is a uniquely designed product, powered by technologies from IBM’s Cognos Group, that helps small to medium size companies not only survive but excel in their daily business decisions. This concept allows companies to move and begin to report on transactional data, otherwise difficult to assemble and to analyze trends and help with budgetary ‘what if’ models. Current models of PSAs are geared toward inventory planning and warehouse execution, but in the future Strategy 7 expects to deliver performance monitoring for many other business sectors.
The PSA IP (Inventory Planning) module takes past inventory levels, combined with embedded sales transactions and gives insight into how to adjust as buyers and sellers change behavior in response to the existing economy. Businesses that deal in parts or products, that are regionally based, have not had access to this vision into their business. According to Joe Rodriguez, President of Strategy 7, and a pioneer for PSA , “We have hundreds of clients who have thriving businesses that operate on gut decisions, but with PSA, they can optimize their intuition and change expectations based on today’s buying patterns.”
PSA leverages three capabilities of IBM’s powerful Cognos suite of tools:
PSA ER – Executive Reporter provides business intelligence capabilities on a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA). Small and medium size business will be able to author, share, and use reports that draw on data previously locked away enabling them to make better business decisions.
PSA WP -WEB Profiler provides read, write, and what-if modeling capabilities allowing the creation of. real-time Web-based worksheets or “Websheets,” which support the functions, formatting, and graphic capabilities of Excel on the Web.
PSA ED - Executive Dashboard delivers advanced analysis and reporting to business users through real-time, web-based access to information from online analytical processing (OLAP) data sources. It is easy to use, provides self-service analytics, and affordable, scalable deployment of sophisticated analytic applications throughout these smaller but important businesses.
The PSA suite was developed by a collective group of domain experts who connect the latest technology with “best business practices”--creating solutions that keep pace with the rapidly changing marketplace. Strategy 7 spearheads these ventures and has exclusive marketing rights in several key business areas.
Best of all, this reporting environment comes as a prepackaged, preloaded and ready to use appliance for faster implementation by the users. Rodriguez continues, “We approach sectors of market, like auto parts warehouses, that have similar software running their business and we model our templates for scalable deployment and leverage that reuse. “
STRATEGY 7, one of the largest integrators in North America, specializes in the implementation of IBM Information Server products and services. Customers, with evolving business needs, look to Strategy 7 to review their existing structure and to solve data control and best practices issues. Growing businesses need to readily extract and format data following data governance best practices by isolating projects that are in development from actual production jobs. To accomplish this, Strategy 7 Corporation also includes the installation of IBM’s InfoSphere Information Server, specifically DataStage.
The essential goal of the project will be to use INFORMATION SERVER (DataStage) to collect operational data, transforming it with the objective of loading valuable information into Cognos Business Intelligence (Cognos 8) and yielding valuable insight and recommendations to customer’s management. The production environment consists of DataStage developers with the instance of Information Server (DataStage) and a power BI user and developer.
Strategic initiatives include the installation of the WebSphere Information Server Release 7 with the PSA suite and on-site consulting / mentoring for the data warehouse design and technical staff. The Information Server Family is manufactured by IBM and remarketed by leading resellers like Strategy 7 Corporation with the added value of installation and support.
Strategy 7, comprised of a powerful group of professionals with various software and platform experience, provides significant data-driven strategies that include data warehousing, data mining and data mapping solutions. The company’s expertise, coupled with industry best practices, maximizes the strength of the data integration and implementation process-- providing customers with the confidence of knowing that they have a solid partner working on their behalf. The company has been committed to IBM’s Data Management Products for over 18 years with over 66,000 users. Clients include Berkshire Hathaway, United Parcel Service, MGM Mirage, Verizon, American Express, Union Pacific, EDS, State of New Mexico, State of California, State of Florida, Cigna, Baylor University, John Deere, British Tire and Rubber, Household Finance, Marriott, United Nations and hundreds of others.
For more information regarding S7's services, contact sales@S7.com or call 949-719-9410.
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