Business Intelligence (BI) and more recently Performance Management (BPM, CPM) is the whole of architecture, processes and technologies for the collection, integration and presentation of business information.

BI systems can provide historical, current or even predictive (forecasting) views of your business data. Therefore, it's usefull to store them apart in a datawarehouse (DWH) or datamarts using

decent ETL and Cleansing techniques. The Business Intelligence and Performance Management tools used can be combined with traditional query and reporting applications, although they're often integrated in one BI platform as offered by several vendors the last few years.

Key vendors of BI and BPM platforms are SAS, Cognos, Business Objects, MicroStrategy, Information Builders, SAP, Microsoft,..

The architecture of the Datawarehouse and Outflow (reporting, OLAP, cubes, datamarts, ...) requires specific knowledge and experience, both from a designing point of view as the customer's expectations. It's a challenge to satisfy the system engineers and key-users with a user friendly, easy to manage Datawarehousing tool whilst the end-user can access historical and summarized data from the business systems.

Cartographics is vastly experienced in this area and is keen to advise your enterprise in taking the right steps for a solid architecture and development of the Datawarehouse and Reporting projects.