QuickBI is a comprehensive and easy-to-use data warehouse solution
A data warehouse project is often a laborious and lengthy process that requires a significant investment of time and effort from the organization to carry out successfully. The traditional approach has been to build the data warehouse from scratch, either as an on-premise solution or using cloud services such as Azure or Amazon Web Services. This requires resources to plan and combine many pieces into a whole — coding integrations, procuring and setting up licenses and services, and so on.
A growing, modern and more effortless alternative is to use a ready-made cloud-based data warehouse operating on a SaaS model. QuickBI’s product is a comprehensive data warehouse solution that covers data ingestion, storage and export. Customers don’t need to worry about how to transform data to make it consistent at the ingestion stage, or how and in what format data should be exported from the warehouse into reports or other systems. Unlike most data warehouse services, QuickBI’s product provides ETL and data warehouse solutions in the same package. QuickBI’s interface gives an easy-to-use view and toolset for accessing and working with your company’s data in whatever way you need.
The reliability of data used for reporting or exported to other systems is critical, and QuickBI’s reporting tool is fully transparent. Within the same product, customers can see the entire data pipeline. Validating data doesn’t require logins to multiple systems, and the accuracy of metrics and reports can be verified quickly.
QuickBI’s data warehouse delivers benefits immediately
When a company chooses QuickBI’s product as its data warehouse solution, the differences — and the resulting benefits compared to building your own warehouse — begin from day one of deployment. QuickBI has successfully delivered such a large number of different data warehouse projects for its customers that when starting a new project, timelines and costs can be estimated realistically.
When building a data warehouse as an internal project, it is usually very difficult to predict the timeline, costs and likelihood of success. There are plenty of uncertainties from the start, and unexpected problems typically arise along the way. Starting from scratch also means waiting a considerable amount of time before the first useful reports are available. With QuickBI’s solution, the most useful reports are typically available within the first few days of the project, as resources can be focused on ingesting, transforming and analyzing data.
QuickBI’s data warehouse product is built for continuous reporting development
A company’s reporting needs rarely stay the same for long — creating new reports and updating existing ones is essential for business development. If reporting development falls to the company’s own IT team, it tends to get repeatedly pushed aside by tasks perceived as more urgent or critical, often ending up at the back of a long queue. The same can happen when using an external consultant who optimizes their own consulting revenue.
With QuickBI’s solution, continuous development — trying new perspectives, bringing new data sources into the scope of reporting, and combining data in new ways — is an integral part of the service and central to everything we do.
Adding data sources to QuickBI’s data warehouse solution is fast, as QuickBI already has ready-made integrations for over a hundred commonly used systems. Integrating entirely new data sources is also quick, as it is a core competency of QuickBI’s developers.
Purchasing a ready-made data warehouse from QuickBI means that staff hours can be directed towards developing reporting, rather than being spent on the technical maintenance and modification of the data warehouse.
QuickBI takes care of data warehouse maintenance and error correction
Maintaining a self-built data warehouse is typically on the long responsibility list of a company’s own IT team, competing for priority with many other important tasks. When using QuickBI’s product, responsibility for maintenance lies with QuickBI. Maintaining the data warehouse and integrations is a primary task for QuickBI’s experts, whose main goal is to ensure that the data warehouse performs as expected for all customers.
When errors are found, they are always fixed quickly by QuickBI within a strict SLA — most often before the customer has even noticed there was a problem. Errors may be caused, for example, by changes to the data models of source systems. When the data warehouse is maintained internally as one task among many, errors may not be noticed or addressed as quickly. As a result, reports may show incorrect data, and in the worst case, wrong business decisions may be made based on faulty data.
In QuickBI’s setup, integrations, data warehousing and — if the customer chooses — data visualization all sit in the same environment, so for any issues, you can turn to QuickBI. QuickBI works across all of these areas daily, which has brought speed and confidence to both routine operations and problem-solving.
