Reporting Center of Excellence
Putting information in the hands of the right people at the right time is a crucial component of improving business intelligence. While many companies have heavily invested in ERP, CRM and Data Warehouse solutions that improve the capture and aggregation of business data, they've found that reporting on that data isn't always as easy as it should be.
Hitachi Consulting has invested in helping information workers transform data into information, and information into knowledge through a Reporting Center of Excellence. We provide services for large scale report development and report migration scenarios, bringing together technology, thought leadership, methodology, and skilled and low-cost resources to provide sophisticated solutions designed to improve an organization's business intelligence.
Reporting Migrations
Many businesses need to upgrade their existing desktop reporting solutions to a more cost effective, managed and scalable enterprise reporting platform. Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services can help businesses achieve this goal by providing a complete integrated reporting and analysis solution. However, many companies that want to take advantage of the capabilities of Reporting Services already have desktop reporting solutions utilizing another tool such as Crystal Reports. And so, to fully realize the benefits of Reporting Services, they must convert existing reports to Reporting Services XML based Report Definition Language (RDL). This effort can be time-consuming and costly if performed manually.
With our Reporting Migration solution, managed in conjunction with our Reporting Center of Excellence, we offer the most comprehensive and cost-effective solution in the market. The Report Migration solution is based on a highly repeatable, quality process and methodology that leverages best practices and expertise learned over years of delivering these solutions to our clients.
You benefit from an accelerated, proven, quality migration from Crystal Reports to SQL Server Reporting Services, supported by the knowledge and experience of a trusted Business Intelligence and Microsoft partner.
Report Conversion Process
Our Reporting Center of Excellence is founded upon our automated report conversion accelerator. The accelerator automatically converts Crystal Reports reporting language into Reporting Services XML based RDL. The majority of language conversion tasks from Crystal Reports to SQL Server Reporting Services are converted quickly and repetitively using our accelerator.
Because we recognize that automated conversion approaches are only capable of delivering a portion of the total solution, we combine our Reporting Center of Excellence with offshore resources from our Global Solution Center to finalize the conversion process. This approach has allowed Hitachi Consulting to be recognized for providing of the highest quality and most comprehensive solution in the market today.
Key elements of our report conversion approach include:
- A free, sample report conversion up front so you can evaluate the quality and completeness of our solution first-hand
- A collaborative approach to develop migration plan and quickly deliver the greatest value based on your user reporting environment
- A structured, simple, proven methodology for delivering high-quality converted reports in a timely, phased approach
- A single point of contact for Project Management and Quality Assurance
- A tailored approach and work effort to transfer knowledge and skills necessary for you to support the solution going forward
- Our breadth and depth of Microsoft SQL Server experience is available for discussion, analysis and understanding the SSRS solution in an enterprise reporting and BI context
- Best Practices and recommendations for leveraging your investment in the SQL Server 2005 environment
Learn More
Check out the whitepaper we authored for Microsoft, Migrating from Business Objects Crystal Reports to SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services, or our solution brochure for Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services Conversion.
Contact the Reporting Center of Excellence
To request additional information regarding our report conversion approach, or to request a free sample report conversion, email us or call 303.813.6013.
