However, companies’ high expectations for effective data usage often fall short when people experience difficulty locating, retrieving, and applying the right information to the task at hand.
To help customers reach their Business Intelligence goals Intervate has developed a project approach and methodology, based on proven Microsoft best practices.
This approach helps address the immediate needs of customers by providing a solution based on reference architectures and Microsoft technology, thus accelerating the time to deliver a solution, and improving the supportability, performance and end user adoption of reporting and analytics tools

A SharePoint based Business Intelligence Reporting and Analysis solution provides:

 
• A familiar work environment that builds on users’ existing skills and procedures.
• Better decision-making across the board through shared information and collaboration
• Combining data from traditional data warehouse sources and information residing in SharePoint to provide users with the ability to comment on, mark favourites and share data.
• A cost effective, end-to-end business intelligence platform.
• The ability to quickly disseminate the right information, internally and externally.
• A robust enterprise ready infrastructure built utilizing the Microsoft SQL server BI Stack.

• An comprehensive overview and scope outlining the key objectives of the implementation
• An Architecture based on proven Microsoft best practices
• Business data models shared across the organisation
• A SharePoint farm configured for self-service analytical BI and reporting
• Dashboards and reports created using the data models