What, when, where, who and why?
All businesses need to know how they are doing and where they are going in a readily available, easy to read and summarised format i.e. Management Reports. The software tools and processes used to create these reports is generally referred to as Business Intelligence. Focus IT can develop your portfolio of reports using most of the mainstream Business Intelligence tools like Business Objects and MS Reporting Services, but due to our experience and expertise with the product we highly recommend the Crystal Reporting Suite of products supplied by SAP.
Crystal Reports is ideal for small and growing businesses as it scales with you. The basic report designer is relatively inexpensive and can run alone on a PC without requiring any specialist server technologies. It can extract and summarise information from virtually any data source including SQL Server, Access, Excel, Outlook, Oracle, Progress etc.. When your business grows and your portfolio of reports is too large to manage manually or needs scheduled to run overnight then we can introduce you to Crystal Server which will automate the running of all your reports and even provide you with a baseline company intranet.
