VTL Consulting has worked with number of client organizations to assess and improve their core analytic information architecture processes, integrate enterprise data, and implement leading BI technology platforms and analytic tools. Our BI-focused analysts and technologists specialize in three key areas of BI:

• BI for strategy – BI architecture, technology design and supports reporting, analysis, and strategic reviews using measures and data aligned to strategy and cascaded to all organizational levels
   
• BI for Business Performance Management – Design and develop consistent data and view of business dimensions and reporting structures supports financial consolidation, planning, budgeting and profitability applications
   
• BI for operational analytics and financial dashboards and balanced scorecards – Critical and secure data, aligned to performance management drivers, is targeted for day-to-day decision-making

VTL also recognizes that each organization’s business processes, data structure, and reporting needs are unique.

VTL evaluate an organization’s current situation to determine the capabilities that will have the greatest impact and fastest return while working toward the desired end state. Our services include:

BI Strategy and Roadmap

VTL provide gap analysis of an organization’s current and desired states and creates a roadmap of sales performance and opportunity pipeline.
 
Analytic Information Management and Architecture

VTL designs and builds the analytic information architecture needed to enable BI, including components such as data warehouses, data marts, master data management and extract/transfer/load (ETL) processes.

Reporting, Operational Dashboards, and Analytical Applications

VTL implements leading BI technology platforms to build dashboards, scorecards, and flexible reporting as well as the implementation of packaged BI applications. of packaged BI applications.

Master Data Management
 
VTL consults and helps clients to manage master data across information silos, allowing for increased consistency and reliability.

Data Governance
 
VTL outlines data governance and stewardship processes and procedures to ensure the on-going accuracy of BI data.

BI Competency of Excellence (BCOE)
 
VTL consults and helps organizations to establish a BI competency center to manage, standardize, deliver, and support BI and business performance management programs

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Overview

• Data Programmability Needs
• Access data: ODBC, OLE-DB, ADO.NET, T-SQL, MDX
• Model data: New ADO.NET Entity Framework
• Query data: New LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities
• Free data: New ADO.NET Data Services
• Sync data: New Microsoft Synchronization Framework
• Manage data: SMO, AMO
• XML Web Services
• WCF
• Service Broker
• BizTalk Server
• Data Platform Services
• Store and manage data: Database Services
• Understand data: Analysis Services
• Visualize data: Reporting Services
• Integrate data: Integration Services

SQL Server 2008 R2  Solutions

• Business Intelligence
  SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence platform provides a scalable infrastructure that enables information technology to drive business intelligence throughout your organization and deliver intelligence where users want it.
   
• Data Warehousing
  Microsoft SQL Server 2008 provides a comprehensive view of the business, by increasing the freshness of the data, incorporating all your systems, and validating the data while reducing the burden on your IT department.
   
• Online Transaction Processing
  SQL Server 2008 provides a scalable, high performance database engine for mission-critical applications that require the highest levels of availability and security, while reducing the total cost of ownership through enhanced enterprise-class manageability.
   
• Application Development
  The Application Development solution provides developers with a comprehensive programming framework, web services and data connectivity technologies to efficiently access and manage disparate data.
   
• Server Consolidation
  SQL Server 2008 reduces hardware and maintenance costs by providing a flexible server consolidation solution with enterprise-class manageability and performance.
   

ResourceResources:

• Engage with the Channel 9 SQL Server community at http://channel9.msdn.com/sql/a>
   
• Learn more about data programmability http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/technologies/dataprogrammability.mspx/a>
   
• Learn more about spatial data http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/technologies/spatial.mspx/a>
   
• Learn more about SQL Server 2008 http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/default.mspx/a>
   
• Discover SQL Server 2008: Webcasts, Virtual Labs, and White Papers http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/learning/default.mspx/a>
   
• SQL Server 2008 training http://www.microsoft.com/learning/sql/2008/default.mspx/a>
   
• Join the SQL PASS community http://www.sqlpass.org/a>
   
• Download and contribute to the End-to-End Community Samples on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/SQLSrvE2E//a>
   
• Download the current CTP http://www.microsoft.com/sql/2008/prodinfo/download.mspx/a>
   
• Check out Roger’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty//a>
   
• Check out Zach’s blog http://blogs.msdn.com/zowens//a>