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Partner Intelligence is your partner for Business Intelligence.
Welcome! Partner Intelligence provides quality Business Intelligence services such as:
- Strategic Advisory Consulting
- Application Development
- Automated BI Consolidation Software and Methodologies
If you need expertise in a leading BI product (such as WebFOCUS, Cognos, or Business Objects), talk to Partner Intelligence. As an independent services organization, you can trust us to only make objective recommendations that we feel are in your best interest.
Our ClientsPartner Intelligence has served well-known organizations such as Omnicare, Mike Albert Leasing, Wendy's International, and Henny Penny.
We look forward to working with you as well. For more information, call our general manager, Doug Lautzenheiser, at (513) 290-4220, or contact him via e-mail at DLautzenheiser@PartnerPS.com.
We are your Partner for Business Intelligence.
We offer strategic advisory services, tactical BI application development, and automated BI consolidation projects work using our award-winning software tools and methodology. Contact us when your business needs include:
- Business Intelligence Products and Methodologies
- Data Warehousing
- Operational System Integration
- Custom Application Development
- Project Management
- BI Standardization and Consolidation
Before you attempt large BI initiatives regarding significant manual effort,
talk to Partner Intelligence about our automation software and services for
performing:
June 2008. Henny Penny and Partner Intelligence Co-Present at 2008 IB Summit
The next time you eat french fries at the quick-service restaurant or get rotisserie chicken from the grocery store, think of Henny Penny, the Ohio-based manufacturer that probably supplied the equipment for your meal. See how this 50-year old privately-held company uses Information Builders products to support their global operations across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, and communicate with distributors in over a hundred countries. In the presentation, Don Garland of Henny Penny described how WebFOCUS enables online access and automated information delivery, as well as how iWay Software automatically processes e-mailed orders. Their WebFOCUS dashboard provides employees and external partners around the world with real-time access to ERP data.
For more information, see the presentation or contact Doug Lautzenheiser.July 2007. Doug Lautzenheiser to lead Partner Intelligence For more information, read the press release or contact Doug Lautzenheiser.
We look forward to speaking with you!
Doug Lautzenheiser
General Manager, Partner Intelligence
4445 Lake Forest Drive, Suite 490
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Phone: (513) 290-4220
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Partner Intelligence is the BI practice of Partner Professional Staffing.
Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Partner Professional Staffing (PPS) is a full-service professional services firm, offering a variety of recruiting, staff augmentation, and project-based consulting services. Our customers include Fortune 500, medium, and emerging companies across various industries.
PPS is managed by Greg Hopkins, Terry Correll, and Bill Laverty, all veterans in their field and well known in the local community.
Doug Lautzenheiser, our general manager of BI services, has over 20 years of experience in the industry and has served organizations such as Procter & Gamble, JPMorgan Chase, Wendy's International, Omnicare, and others. For more information about Doug, visit his LinkedIn page.
Large Consumer Product Goods Company Automates Platform Migration
One of the leading CPG firms needed to move a complex application to a new computer platform. In addition to providing important Business Intelligence for the organization, this system performed mission-critical day-to-day operational functions. Attempting to perform a manual conversion effort would have been time-consuming, risky, and costly.
To make the initiative possible, Doug Lautzenheiser created software to automatically perform much of the manual work needed to translate platform-specific syntax and to port programs and databases into the new environment.
The platform migration project was a success and was on-time and under-budget. The team went on to perform many other projects for this marquee client.
Contact us to find out more about this innovative solution.
1) Large Financial Services Company Automates BI Consolidation
One of the world's largest financial services firms had a thorn in its side. Since the 1980s, the NOMAD 4GL reporting tool had spidered throughout their end-user community. After decades of use, IT was now faced with a multi-million dollar, multi-year initiative to replace the legacy computer language with a modern, web-based product. The business rules in these programs were a valuable asset that needed to be leveraged.
Using the BI Consolidator, this company automatically converted the old syntax into that of a web-based BI reporting tool. The project was completed successfully in months instead of years, at a fraction of the cost to perform the work manually, and with happy users when they received their newly web-enabled reports and queries.
This automated BI consolidation got the attention of ComputerWorld, who named it as a Laureate Honors winner in their annual awards program.
2) Fleet Management Company Automates BI Consolidation
A large North American fleet management firm worked with Partner Intelligence to automate the consolidation of their legacy BI environments. With the BI Consolidation software, we automatically handled web application conversion tasks such as converting old CGI calls to Java Servlets, enforcing new standards (such as look-and-feel, name changes, and new calendar controls), and migrating them to a new platform. We also translated Oracle Portal launch pages and reports into a more robust BI product to improve functionality and reduce the number of supported reporting tools.
3) Regional Medical Center Automates BI Consolidation
A regional medical center had written thousands of mission-critical healthcare report processes using the mainframe QMF product (IBM's Query Management Facility). We were able to show them how to leverage their valuable IP assets and automatically translate the routines into a web-based BI product.
Contact us to find out more about this innovative solution.
Automatically Convert Legacy 4GL Applications into WebFOCUS!
If you still rely upon one of the legacy 4GL products (FOCUS, RAMIS, or NOMAD), Partner Intelligence can move you easily into web-based reporting. Our methodology and software tools can turn a daunting undertaking into a structured, easily-accomplished project. The BI Consolidator application can translate your existing 4GL applications into WebFOCUS programs that are then available through a web browser. If you are migrating from another platform, the Consolidator will automatically translate platform-specific commands.
Before you try this manually, talk to us to see how much time, cost, and headaches Partner Intelligence can save you.
Contact us to find out more about this innovative solution.
Automatically Change Thousands of Software Programs in Seconds!
If you have a large number of software programs that all need to be modified in a similar fashion, Partner Intelligence may be able to solve your challenge of how to cost-effectively and quickly make the modifications. With our application, we can generate new versions in a fraction of the time it would take a team of people to do the work manually.
Before you try this manually, talk to us to see if Partner Intelligence can automate your project.
Contact us to find out more about this innovative solution.
Many of today’s companies have a serious problem.
Without a formal enterprise strategy for Business Intelligence, companies have over the years unintentionally quilted of a patchwork of disparate BI products into the fabric of their IT infrastructure. Some of these tools were acquired as companions to packaged software purchases, such as ERP or CRM. Others were quietly bought and implemented as part of small departmental solutions.
Regardless of their original purpose, BI tools were often the result of “one-off” tactical deals that did not consider the strategic needs of the entire organization. While having all of these BI tools at your fingertips may seem like a good thing, it actually makes the typical firm less productive, less competitive, and less profitable. For example, before initiating a BI project, developers at a company may first have to investigate their various options and then make a decision on which tool to use, slowing down their work efforts and delaying any business actions that the users could be taking.
The company must also employ knowledgeable personnel to support all of the tools and put into place redundant operations, leading to higher operating costs and reduced profitability. In addition to the extra staff, the company must pay for multiple software license fees, maintenance costs, and platform requirements. Working with multiple vendors, the customer will have less of an opportunity to build a fruitful relationship with any particular provider.
Many of these firms have found a rational solution. They are selecting the BI software suite from a particular vendor as their enterprise standard, and are then consolidating all of the non-standard tools. While there may still be some advocates for “best of breed” solutions, the strong business value of working with a single vendor is appealing.
Implementing a BI standard provides the organization with an enterprise platform of optimized data where all users can get easy, timely, and accurate access to actionable information. This improved decision making allows them to better achieve their company goals.
BI Standardization may be the solution.
The business values of BI Standardization include the following:
- Provides full enterprise visibility into corporate data (“360 degree customer view”)
- Provides a common language (“Profit” always means “Profit”)
- Simplified environment promotes collaboration and sharing of best practices
- BI skills are now commonly held and easily available
- Reduces uncertainty and risk when planning and executing a BI project
- Ends debates over whose data is right and how it was calculated
- Reduces the amount of flawed decision making using bad information
By offering a streamlined, standard enterprise BI environment, firms can enable their users to make faster and better decisions, which can be turned into actions with business value. Their IT organization will benefit from simpler day-to-day operations and responsibilities. The company’s customers will benefit when their needs are met more effectively and efficiently.
Contact us to find out more about selecting and implementing a BI Standard and automatically consolidating your legacy tools.