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Reporting and Data Analysis
MPS eServices's expertise in business reporting and analytics is based on strong publishing industry experience and core technical competencies. We provide cost effective solutions for small and mid-size enterprise solutions to large-scale business analytics.
Reporting Services
Crystal Reports™ & ComponentOne™ reporting tools
MPS eServices has many years experience in presenting data through powerful reporting tools using Crystal Reports from Business Objects and ComponentOne's studio of tools. These cater to small and mid-size enterprise reporting requirements. Our solutions provide access to varying content repositories, presenting and delivery within the company or externally over the web.
Key features
  Data access
    MPS eServices has implemented enterprise solutions based on these tools that can connect to more than 35 database repositories having solutions for Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, SAP, and IBM.
  Presentation
    We provide professional looking reports through the use of visual report designers and interactive prompts. Dynamic reporting, dynamic image location for ability to change images in a report without having to re-deploy reports, charting and mapping, hierarchical reports drill down, custom functions, asymmetric reporting (provides a customized view of OLAP grids to customize and hide specific dimensions for user), Access and Excel add ins, and Drag drop reports.
  Accessibility and flexibility
    Access to reports is available within the application, wherein data can be pulled in from the server. Flexibility comes from export options to various formats like PDF, Excel, Word, Access, XML, CSV, and HTML for easy sharing.
  Security
    Security is implemented at an application level and system level. Other features comprise of single-sign-on and role-based view of the data.
Microsoft Reporting Services™
  Scalable server-based reporting platform built on the .NET Framework and integrated with SQL Server 2000/2005.
  Support for parameterized reports enabling creation of custom reports.
  Supports various report types such as tabular, freeform, chart, cross-tab, drilldown, drill-through, and interactive reports.
  Provides the end user (or business user) with a tool to create reports against the Report Model facilitating ad-hoc reporting.
  Scheduling and subscription-based delivery of reports.
Business Value
Our well defined process driven project management methodologies, domain technical expertise, and competency in use case driven OOAD design and development enable us to deliver an open, highly scalable, n-tier architecture based on the industry common standards and protocols. Applications built on this architecture will be modular with a high degree of component reuse, and follow best practices in security, shared services, and configurability.
  Optimize Business Productivity – Reporting Services supports fast, relevant decision-making by making real-time information available to business users throughout the organization, using familiar tools.
  Minimize total cost of ownership (TCO) – Reporting Services is designed to leverage a customer’s existing data sources and application infrastructure. Because it includes comprehensive tools for deploying and managing reports, it simplifies and speeds deployment. Integration with existing Microsoft products enables organizations to utilize familiar tools and their existing expertise.
  Offer enterprise-class reliability and scalability – Capitalizing on the capabilities of the Microsoft BI (Business Intelligence) platform and a web services model, Reporting Services scales easily to handle high-volume reporting environments. The product includes tools and processes to manage the entire reporting lifecycle, from report authoring to delivery, supporting complex and demanding business environments.
  Connect people and information – Reporting Services connects people to the information they need—when and where they need it. On the back end, it gathers data from a wide variety of existing data sources. On the front end, it delivers this data over the Web in a number of formats and integrates easily into existing applications.
Business Analytics
Comprehensive and cost-effective platform for business intelligence
MPS eServices has rich experience and competence in the Business Intelligence area backed up by a proven process model for data warehousing and business analytics.
Panorama NovaView™ 
  Delivers robust analytic functionality
  Enables informed decisions at all levels of an organization
  Facilitates an intuitive view of current results and shape future outcomes
  Uniquely optimized with the Microsoft® BI platform – Analysis Services and Reporting Services
  Easy to use client interfaces
  Report management services
  A variety of user interface options including desktop, web, and Microsoft Excel
  Data caching for optimum speed and performance
Microsoft Analysis Services SQL Server 2005™
  Enables informed decisions at all levels of an organization
  Analysis service integrated into enterprise environment
  Low cost of ownership
  Higher ROI
  Multidimensional analysis extends beyond the traditional scope of OLAP databases
  Managed reporting
  Export options to various office tools
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