star knowledge bi solutions & services
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Star Knowledge BI Services
Technical Environment
Technical Architecture
Star Knowledge Mobile BI Platform
Web Content Management (WCM)
BI-Centric Customer Success Stories
Our business and technical consultants have proven
competencies in high-demand Business Intelligence
implementations and are proficient working with related
market-leading technologies including:
Report Analysis, Development, and Testing
Dashboard Analysis, Development and Testing
Platform Administration, Tuning, Upgrades, and Migrations
Database Design and Development
Database Administration, Tuning, Upgrades, and Migrations
Data Analysis, Data Profiling, and Data Quality
ETL Design, Development, and Testing
Web and Portal Integration
CRM and ERP Data Integration
Web Content Management (WCM)
Mobile Design, Development, Integration and Deployment
Ongoing Solution Maintenance and Development Support
Solution Help Desk – 24/7
.NET Platform Applications
JAVA Applications
Mobil Applications
SharePoint Applications
Web Applications
Windows Applications
Open Source
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RDBMS
Mobile BI
Data Store
XL
CSV
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Dimensions
Measures
MDX Query
OLAP Cubes
WEB Services
Mobile BI Architecture
Mobile BI Functional & Technical Specifications
Mobile BI Template
Mobile Web Services Communicator
ETL Tools (Extract, Transform & Load)
Mobile Graph Generator
SharePoint Data Organizer & Taxonomy
Web Content Management (WCM)
Content creation/authoring functions, including templating,
workflow and change management
WCM repositories that contain content and/or metadata about
content
Library services, with check-in/check-out, version control and
security
Content deployment functions that deliver prepackaged or on-
demand content to Web servers
High degree of interoperability with adjacent technologies such
as CRM, ERP and Web analytics
Real-time adaptation to visitor interactions through
technologies including delivery engines or enhanced
frameworks for content delivery applications
Ability to integrate well with delivery tiers such as e-commerce,
social media and portal software
BI-Centric Customer Success Stories
BI Mobile Application Development: Leading North
America IT Business Solutions Provider
BI, Benchmark Computing & Dashboard: Global
Electronics & Entertainment Company
Data Analysis & BI Reporting: Fortune 100
Entertainment Company
Mobile Business Reporting & Analysis: Leading Regional
Banking institution
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Mobile BI Application
The Customer
The Star Knowledge customer is a leading provider of IT business solutions, with a focus on
Business Intelligence, to the North American market.
The Need
The customer’s business strategy was development of a functional-rich Mobile BI solution
application supporting various ERP components for sale to current and new customers. The key
business requirements included the Mobile BI solution to operate on different mobile platforms
and devices and provide features such as splash screen, Admin capabilities, Grid View, KPI Page
with graphical representation of data in the form of Bar, Line and Pie Charts.
The Challenge
The challenge was to develop the KPI data reporting view requiring dissimilar graphs on an array
of platforms including iphone, ipad, Blackberry and Android.
The Solution
The Star Knowledge Technical Team concluded that the optimum technical development
approach and environment included use of: Appcelerator Titanium, SQlite Database selected for
building the required mobile BI application. The Team designed, developed, and tested the
Mobile BI application on the simulator and the mobile devices.
The key capabilities included in the Mobile BI applications are as follows:
Connect to the server and list and render KPIs and render with different color view screens
Display the Bar, Line and Pie Graphs based on values returned by Web Services
Display Grid based on values returned by the Web Services
Filter or select a particular group of KPIs for viewing.
Navigate to Graphs screen.
Enter user name and password data.
Enter server information, data refresh rate.
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Benefits
The key benefits realized by the customer resulting from this successful project included:
Customer added a revenue generating new business solution to company’s portfolio. The
new Mobile BI applications for the use on iphone, ipad, Blackberry and Android devices
provide business professionals with the flexibility and security they require to access
business critical information, wherever they are, and wherever they need it.
The customer’s promotional effort focused on the new Mobile BI application’s capabilities
to highlight strategic corporate and operational KPIs, and drive user positive decision-
making and actions through proactive alerts and exception reporting with industry leading
ease of use and rich and complete analytic capabilities.
Mobile BI Application Screen Views
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BI, Benchmark Computing & Dashboard
The Customer
Global Electronics & Entertainment Company
The Need
The customer required a systematic solution to computerize their customer data gathering,
reporting, and analysis facility for web site entertainment placements. This requirement
necessitated design and development of a business Intelligence (BI) tool with data warehouse
capabilities. To meet this requirement the customer required a tool for use within their Digibase
environment that presenting data to a corporate BI dashboard.
The Challenge
The Digibase tool benchmarking and dashboard functions were not acceptable to the users as
the tool lacked capability to create extensions to existing applications and architectural
documentation was not available. New modules were required to operate with the existing
version and deployment.
Key challenges included:
Data Ingestion: Existing modules were incomplete and undocumented
Benchmark Computations: No capability for multi-year benchmarking of earlier data
Dashboard: No comparisons on multi-year benchmarks (Except basic Report Set)
The Solution
The Star Knowledge Technical Team developed application extensions within the existing
Digibase tool with MS IIS Web Server and MS SQL servers as underlying components. Existing
source code were analyzed and new extensions created to fit with the existing code. Testing
included the development environment and testing in a staging environment to ensure
production capabilities and user acceptance.
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Solution work effort included:
Data Ingestion: Source data files containing performance information were analyzed and
existing modules that modified to populate the application as required
Benchmark Computations: Based on several years of data, metrics were developed as the
benchmark
Dashboard Development: Introduction of multi-year benchmark computations required
comparison with current performance data and reported based on user needs.
Benefits
The key benefits realized by the customer resulting from this successful project included:
Make confident business decisions by quickly accessing critical information
Accelerate employee productivity by sharing information anywhere, anytime, with any
device
Enhance customer relations with prompt and accurate responses
Accelerate cost savings and decrease TCO by simplifying the development and deployment
of mobile apps.
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Data Analysis & BI Reporting
The Customer
Fortune 100 Entertainment Company
The Need
The customer required a systematic solution to computerize their data analysis facility for
Network advertisement placements. This requirement necessitated development of a business
Intelligence tool with data warehouse capabilities. To meet this requirement the customer used
spreadsheet to manipulate the data manually, this induced four person-days of tedious effort
and delay for every report with no accuracy.
The Challenge
The spreadsheet manipulation process was not acceptable in the work environment as it lacked
capability to consider multiple constraints and conditions with lack of appropriate process
documentation. The challenge was to provide a solution to analyze financial data without having
to change the way of maintaining the data in spreadsheets and consider very limited inputs and
import data from the spreadsheet. There were four key entities.
Budget: Entertainment event / show data for s specific period
Chron: Daily Network usage and financial
Pods: Maintain daily points by Network
Tracking: Track the points daily
The Solution
The Star Knowledge Technical Team developed application extensions within the existing
database tool with MS IIS Web Server and MS SQL servers as underlying components. Existing
source code were analyzed and new extensions created to fit with the existing code. Testing
included the development environment and testing in a staging environment to ensure
production capabilities and user acceptance.
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www.star-knowledge.org
Solution work effort included:
Data Ingestion: Source data files containing performance information were analyzed and
existing modules that modified to populate the application as required
Benchmark Computations: Based on several years of data, metrics were developed as the
benchmark
Dashboard Development: Introduction of multi-year benchmark computations required
comparison with current performance data and reported based on user needs.
Benefits
The key benefits realized by the customer resulting from this successful project included:
Available to employees in different offices throughout the company
Automates report generation, resulting in development cost savings versus earlier custom-
built reports
Make confident business decisions by quickly accessing critical information
Accelerate employee productivity by sharing information anywhere, anytime, with any
device
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www.star-knowledge.org
Mobile Business Reporting & Analysis
The Customer
The Star Knowledge customer is a leading regional Banking institution with an array of branches
across the country.
The Need
Like all financial institutes, the Bank had to maintain all the records to understand profitability.
However, their Excel-based tools were lacking key capabilities and did not support the
complexity of the business.
The Challenge
One of the biggest challenges in designing the database was to accommodate complex reporting
and analysis. The challenge included identifying a solution to allow the Bank’s staff included:
Analyze data as deeply as required with drill down capabilities to grow the business
Improve the productivity of highly skilled analysts
Provide a mobile capability on and off the Bank’s office facilities.
The Solution
The Star Knowledge Technical Team provided the Bank with:
Technical environment included: C# using Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL Server Analysis
Service, SQL Server Reporting Services, Use of OLAP Cube
Consistent single view of business data for all user groups supporting quick and accurate
production of consolidated reports. With the help of the business reporting and analysis
solution, the Bank’s staff can execute queries to retrieve required data and information for
analysis and decision-making.
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Incremental revenue was generating for company’s portfolio with the new Mobile BI
application on iphone, ipad, Blackberry and Android devices. This capability provided
business professionals with the flexibility and security required to access business critical
information, wherever they are, and wherever they need it.
The customer’s promotional effort focused on the new Mobile BI application’s capabilities
to highlight strategic corporate and operational KPIs, and drive user positive decision-
making and actions through proactive alerts and exception reporting with industry leading
ease of use and rich and complete analytic capabilities.
Benefits
The key benefits realized by the Bank resulting from this successful project included:
This improved ability to examine data, frees Bank’s analysts to focus on their real task ―
anticipating trends, identifying areas that are working, and discovering ways to attract new
customers and serve existing ones more efficiently. The end-result of this insight is more
intelligent and informed business decisions.
Increased speed of delivery of actionable business information
Enhanced business decisions by providing the decision makers with the data they needed to
make informed decisions