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2 Agenda Introductions About CRG Seminar Objectives The What and Why of BI Microsoft Business Intelligence Product Demonstration CRG Implementation Approach Q&A and Next Steps

3 CRG Overview Founded in 1989 We are global company with offices in Canada, South Africa, India and the United States Thousands of companies use CRG solutions Partnered with industry leaders:

CRG Solutions and Services Management Consulting Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Shared Services, Activity-based Costing/Management, Planning and Budgeting, Shareholder Value Creation Business Management Solutions Microsoft Dynamics™ GP, Microsoft Dynamics ™ CRM, Microsoft® Business Solutions Small Business Financials Business Performance Products Microsoft Dynamics GP Add-on Products, EmPerform, FlexABM, Enterprise Scorecard, Cost Allocator, Shared Services Manager (SSM), eSurvey All our solutions are designed to fulfill our mission: Driving Better Business Management and Performance.

5 Some Key Customers

6 Seminar Objectives Provide you with a general understanding of Business Intelligence (BI). Share with you the Microsoft BI strategy and solution. Describe our capabilities and experience in implementing BI solutions. Answer your questions and help you with your BI journey.

7 What is Business Intelligence? Business Intelligence (BI) is about getting the right information, to the right decision makers, at the right time. BI is an enterprise-wide platform that supports reporting, analysis and decision making. BI leads to: fact-based decision making “single version of the truth” BI includes reporting and analytics.

8 Why BI? The Five Questions What happened? What is happening? Why did it happen? What will happen? What do I want to happen? ERP CRM 3PtySCM Black books Past Present Future Data

9 Common Pain Points... Data everywhere, information no where Different users have different needs Excel versus PDF Pull versus push On demand – on schedule Your format – my format Takes too long – wasted resources/efforts Security Technical “mumbo jumbo” … Why I just can’t get it to you when you want it.

10 Improving organizations by providing business insights to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions Advanced Analytics Self Service Reporting End-User Analysis Business Performance Management Operational Applications Embedded Analytics Microsoft Business Intelligence Vision

11 Microsoft BI Principles Make it affordable  Centers around a belief that today’s BI tools are specialized and expensive.  Microsoft will focus on affordability and lower TCO. Leverage the Microsoft investment already made by clients  End-to-end solution leveraging Microsoft SQL Server™, Microsoft Office®, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server and Performance Management Applications.  Focus on the end-user’s experience with Microsoft Office and the desire to “Stop Building Tools for Analysts.” Long-term Commitment  “We are dead serious about BI,” Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Microsoft BI Conference, May 11, 2007, Seattle, WA

12 Microsoft BI Growth: Gaining Ground “Microsoft's BI Tools revenue growth in 2005 was more than 25 percent, growing at more than twice the rate of the overall market. …Microsoft's impact on the BI tools market cannot be overemphasized. This impact will mark an evolutionary change that has been put into motion by the database vendors overall and will reshape the BI tools market over the next 15 years.” Dan Vesset, IDC

13 Microsoft BI Platform

14 Microsoft BI Platform

15 SQL Server Database Management Business Intelligence Platform Analysis ServicesReporting Services Integration ServicesDatabase Management SQL 2005 SQL Server Relational Database – provides a robust, scalable and enterprise-ready Data Warehouse platform. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 has improved partitioning, manageability, and query optimizations to streamline data warehouse operations and increase performance. Many Business Solutions and systems currently use this database.

16 SQL Server Integration Services Provides functionality commonly referred to as Extract, Transform, Load (ETL). Moves and transforms data between sources and destinations, regardless of format. Cleanses data and ensures data integrity. Integrates heterogeneous data sources. Business Intelligence Platform Analysis ServicesReporting Services Integration ServicesDatabase Management SQL 2005 Source: 2007 Microsoft® Office System Business Intelligence Integration, White Paper, February 1, 2007, Anthony T. Mann

17 SQL Server Analysis Services Allows for Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), commonly referred to as “cubes”. Includes advanced analytical features such as complete data mining and key performance indicator frameworks. Enables organizations to accommodate multiple analytic needs within one solution. Analysis ServicesReporting Services Integration ServicesDatabase Management SQL 2005 Business Intelligence Platform

18 SQL Server Reporting Services Provides a complete reporting platform so that end-users can view data using a Web browser or desk top. Includes report authoring tools for both technical developers and business users. Allows web-based viewing and rendering in popular document formats such as Microsoft Excel and PDF. Contains robust subscription capability. Business Intelligence Platform Analysis ServicesReporting Services Integration ServicesDatabase Management SQL 2005

19 Microsoft BI Platform

20 Excel Performance Point End User Tools & Performance Management Microsoft Excel 2007

21 Excel Performance Point End User Tools & Performance Management Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning  Drive strategic objectives and goals into the planning and budgeting process to ensure departmental plans align with corporate strategy. Monitoring and Analysis  Powerful analytics capabilities empower business users to access data and to perform analyses on their own so that they can make better, faster decisions. Release scheduled for Q4, 2007

22 Microsoft BI Platform

23 Delivery Reports Excel Workbooks Dashboards Scorecards Analytic Views Analytic Views Plans Search Content Management Collaboration Share Point Server Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Key Benefit: makes information easy to access and use. Brings the “Self-Service” to BI. Serves as the central access point for all reports and business data. Provides integration to Reporting Services, Microsoft Excel, ProClarity Analytics, Dashboards (currently known as Business Scorecard Manager) and PerformancePoint Server. Allows users to collaborate, annotate and search. Stores documents in a document library.

24 What We Like About the Microsoft BI Platform? We believe that Microsoft offers superior value for the following reasons: It’s affordable and leverages existing investments.  In many cases the organization already own the Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Office licenses. It’s modular–organizations can deploy it all at once or one piece at a time.  For instance, one can start with Reporting Services and cubes and then integrate everything with SharePoint. Microsoft is focused on the end-user experience and making BI easy to use.

Product Demonstration & Roadmap Reporting services (design–build–deploy) Excel 2007 (familiar world) ProClarity - Analytics PerformancePoint Server (Q4 2007) (plan–monitor–analyze) SharePoint Server

26 CRG Offers Knowledge Experience Vision

27 Our Capabilities CRG has a talented, experienced group of professional consultants that can help you successfully implement any or all of your BI solution. Our business team consists of MBAs, CAs, CMAs, CGAs and CFAs. Our technical team consists of Microsoft-Certified consultants who have many years of experience implementing Business Intelligence solutions. We believe in the dedicated involvement of both business and technical consultants who also provide post-implementation support and training.

28 Our Implementation Objectives Our primary goal is to ensure that…  We understand the business requirements – we prefer to start with the highest pain point.  We can provide cost-effective solutions that meets business requirements.  We can provide a superior end-user experience.

29 Our Implementation Approach Focus on the immediate pain point and delivery and deployment paths Domain: Sales, Financial Reporting, Product Development, Projects, HR, Operations, Inventories, Purchasing, etc. Deployment: Reports, PDFs, cubes, push-pull, briefing books, URLs, IPAQ, Browser, etc. Develop a prototype solution. Validate the prototype against the business needs. Finalize and implement the automated solution. Train the users. Deploy the solution across the organization. Move on to the next pain point.

30 CRG Implementation Approach

The End Result

32 Q&A and Next Steps For more information, please contact us at: | Doug Hum, Director, Marketing and Business Development | ext. 286 Vijay Jog | ext. 228 John Smith | ext. 239 May Abouseido | ext. 226 Kobana Abukari | ext. 227

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