Business Intelligence is one of the fastest growing areas of  IT related development within companies throughout the world.

Senior Executives are demanding more information from multiple sources within the organisation in order to make well informed decisions.

HALO has extensive knowledge of this technology and has the experience to help you integrate all your different data sources and present them in a way most suited to your organisation.

By utilising technology from the Market Leader in this field (ORACLE), HALO can gather together all your key data and through a series of workbooks, dashboards, reports etc. to allow you to make the best use of the information you have available

With new technology advances, mergers and acquisitions and new functional requirements, keeping pace with the changes at a management and organisational level can be a challenge.  For your IT systems, this can also lead to problems with duplication of data/functionality and the need to share information quickly.

Each company is different and HALO has many years of practical experience in building interfaces between systems, integrating existing systems into new applications and transferring data between old and new systems.  This helps to keep your business continuing to operate without lengthy re-training and multiple re-entry of the same data

HALO offers a broad range of consultancy services on the following Oracle technology :

• Database Design - ETL, Data Warehouse
• Business Intelligence - Reports, Standard (Discoverer Desktop, Plus, Viewer), Enterprise (Siebel, Hyperion)
• Application Express (previously HTML/DB)
• Developer Suite (Forms, Reports)
• T.O.A.D., PL/SQL Developer, Oracle SQL Developer

Through "Associate Consultants" HALO also offers the following consultancy services

• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, etc.)
• Web design (HTML, .NET, C#, ASP, Java, FrontPage)
• Networking (TCP/IP, WAN, LAN, DHCP)

Halo has experience in a wide range of functional areas which it can bring to projects  These include

• Document Management (Storage, version control, retrieval, incoming and outgoing transmittals, interface management etc.)
• Procurement - (Order placement, monitoring etc.)
• Material Management - (Shipment Identification, tracking and delivery)
• Planning -(Primavera p3e, Microsoft Project, integration with data warehouse etc.)
• Financial - (Portfolio, fund, asset -  benchmarking and reporting)
• Plant Operation - (Maintenance schedules, intelligent operating manuals etc.)
• Insurance - (Insurance Policies, Claims, Receipts, Trend analysis etc.)

More details, showing implementations for these areas can be found throughout the solution descriptions