Business Intelligence Development

A Business Intelligence project includes the development of the reporting system.

Ultra’s BI services include the development of the Business Intelligence system.

Components of Business Intelligence Development

  • Identification of source data – Single or Multiple ERPs
  • Development of scripts to extract data
  • Design of the data repository (data mart or data warehouse) – can be a mirror of transaction or preferably, a star-schema design
  • Development of scripts to transform and load the data into the repository
  • Setup of the BI presentation tool, pointing the system at the data warehouse (i.e. metadata)
  • Development of ERP reports, queries, analysis cubes, dashboards, and scorecards with the presentation tool
  • Development of the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) control logic
  • Creation of Development, Test, Production environments with migration facilities

Development Phases of Business Intelligence Development Projects

  • Requirement definition
  • Design
  • Development
  • Test
  • Document

With Ultra’s modern Business Intelligence training tools, BI systems can be developed and deployed rapidly. The time frame for a project will vary by scope.