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Sterna Business Positioning System™ (BPS) is a groundbreaking business analytics platform that takes data warehouse analytics to the next generation.
Converging strategic, operational, and predictive analytics, it empowers managers to continuously optimize operational and financial performance, enterprise-wide. Implemented in weeks if not days, Sterna BPS provides data warehouse analytics capabilities that drive managers to capitalize on financial opportunities and mitigate risks as they occur.
Data warehouse analytics projects are typically part of an organization’s BI strategy during organic growth stages. These projects are continually expanded along with inorganic growth i.e. M&A processes.
During the stages of ETL (Extract, Transform & Load) and data warehouse design and deployment, many issues must be dealt with, such as architecture concepts, business logic, data structures, data integrity, authentication and security. A recent IDC survey states that only 5% of organizations with revenues of $500 million and above have a single operational system feeding their business analytics solution.
34% have 10 or more operational source systems feeding their business analytics solution. It usually takes the organization’s IT many months to complete a massive data warehouse analytics project and align the BI user community to a single data warehouse analytics platform.
In the meantime, until IT completes this long and complex data warehouse analytics project, different departments operate based on different data, and managers spend an increasing amount of time analyzing disparate reports and spreadsheets to gain a holistic view of their operation rather than driving employees to action. This is where Sterna Business Positioning System™ (Sterna BPS) comes into the picture.
Sterna BPS business analytics platform delivers actionable information to the relevant managers, taking much of the heavy lifting off the IT department, and allowing it to focus its resources on the complex data warehouse project. Real-time central-visibility into the operation is quickly provided to managers of various Business Communities, aligning them to the same language, data, and goals. Rapidly implemented utilizing prebuilt industry-specific Packaged Libraries, Sterna BPS data warehouse analytics offers substantial returns on investment (ROI).
Working on an in-memory platform, Sterna BPS avoids the burdens of retrieving, aggregating, and presenting data using conventional disk-based storage. These burdens are, among others, what cause implementations of OLAP tools and Data Warehouses to be time-consuming, expensive and inflexible.
In contrast, Sterna BPS extracts, transforms and loads data from virtually any data source, into memory, while maintaining the data separately from the mathematical calculations performed on that data. It performs calculations only upon user request, providing the most reliable, up-to-date and dynamic information, in a fraction of the time compared to traditional data warehouse analytics solutions.
Furthermore, the data sources are completely abstracted from the Sterna BPS Server, such that they can be plugged in and out with minimal effort and impact to the system. Sterna BPS is able to connect to and operate on file-based structures such as XML, ASCII files or excel spreadsheets, operational systems such as ERP and CRM, or any ODBC or OLE DB-compliant database, and when the time comes, adapt within mere days to operate on OLAP cubes and an integrated data warehouse to provide unified data warehouse analytics.
In conclusion, whether your organization has already deployed a data warehouse, or is still considering this large-scale project, Sterna BPS business analytics is the ultimate complimentary solution for data warehouse analytics.
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