Microsoft Business Intelligence

Empower End Users With Rapid Insight

Employees at all levels need to react quickly to business problems—they need to bring together information from a variety of sources, understand it and share it with others so that they can make informed decisions.  Using the Microsoft business intelligence suite of products, Inside Info help businesses empower staff with familiar and intuitive tools that they use daily to improve decision making. 

Inside Info are Silver Microsoft Data Platform partners and Microsoft Business Intelligence Partners.  Our strength is in our approach and our team, which comprises fully certified Senior Microsoft BI Consultants, led by Managing Consultant, Ian Forrester. Clients work with us because we can add value beyond a technical specification.  We have well regarded expertise in applying business intelligence technology to a business process with significant domain experience in manufacturing, retail, distribution, pharmaceutical, health, logistics and business services among others.   

Microsoft BI Experts on Hand

Our business is designing and delivering BI solutions based on the Microsoft business intelligence and data platforms as Silver Microsoft Partners.  Anyone can take a technology and profess to be an expert, the difference is in how our consultants guide business scoping, develop applications and integrate seamlessly within your existing environment. 

Most organisations choose to work with us because of our recognised ability to think strategically about BI and our pragmatic delivery approach that delivers value quickly to IT to improve decision making throughout the organisation.  We add value beyond a technical specification, with well regarded expertise in applying business intelligence technology to a business process with significant domain experience in manufacturing, retail, distribution, pharmaceutical, health, logistics and business services among others. 

The quality of our consultants is another reason why customers work with us.  Our Inside Info Microsoft Practice team is led by Managing Consultant Ian Forrester, a seasoned IT and business intelligence professional with 20+ years experience.  Ian is the former CIO of Wesfarmers Industrial & Safety, CIO of United Group Rail, was Head of Applications at CSR Group and previous lead SAP Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  Ian has a hand in every project overseeing all client scoping, architecture design, development, delivery, integration, training and ongoing support.  Supported by our team of fully certified Microsoft Senior BI Consultants, that in their own right boast over 10 years BI and IT experience. Our customers are often seen speaking at BI or industry events about their success stories, which is testament to the quality of our work.

Results Based BI Experts

Inside Info offer end-to-end Microsoft consulting services including scoping, design, delivery, testing, training and ongoing support services covering the Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office toolset.  Our focus is on delivering results and tangible outcomes for our clients. Our engagement methodology is based on an iterative design and delivery approach, that’s carefully project managed to deliver results and outputs within a few weeks.  We have experience working with multiple data sources including ERP (MS Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, BPCS, JDE, Lawson, Epicor and more), data warehouse (SQL, Oracle, BW & others), CRM, HR, call centre, web and others. 


Inside Info’s Microsoft Practice team can:

  • Assess your current organisation’s productivity, performance and information assets
  • Assist with BI Project Scoping to ensure BI strategy enhances business strategy
  • Deliver BI project management services
  • Manage data and master data design and definition more effectively
  • Leverage the BI capability to its fullest included in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2
  • Design and deliver self-serve BI solutions with PowerPivot
  • Design rich & dynamic dashboards and scorecards with PerformancePoint in SharePoint Server
  • Deliver enterprise reporting with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
  • Build powerful OLAP-based multi-dimensional analysis with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) that can be accessed and shared in SharePoint and Excel
  • Predictive analytics and data mining services with SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) and Excel
  • Build a scalable and robust SQL Server data store or data warehouse as your foundation for decision making
  • Ongoing Microsoft BI application development and support
  • Microsoft BI Training Programs via our Microsoft Learning Solutions Partner

SQL Server & BI Healthcheck

QlikView Customers Outperform Best-In-Class with Dashboards

“  We have interactive visibility into sales, profitability, logistics and supply chain performance. Our initial applications were delivered in just four weeks with excellent results  ”

Wayne McIntosh, Finance Director
“  We can measure and work to continuously improve profitability, targeted delivery, superior service & quality performance. Until now, we never had true gross margin analysis by customer; this has improved servicing of accounts  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  QlikView delivered value fast for Amcor – with Inside Info working with us to design & deploy our BI applications we saw a significant return in a few months  ”

Rob Pyne, General Manager, Australasia Corporate Services
“  Senior management are now analysing living information themselves with QlikView… saving our IT team at least 500 hours a year in manual report development  ”

Peter Crescitelli, IT Project Manager, Bianco
“  We realised value from our investment within days. We built a powerful profitability analysis application that was back on the desks of business managers in 6 days, showing for the first time an integrated view of customer profitability at a material level  ”

Tim Hogan, Manager, Business Intelligence
“  It’s not a trivial exercise to go into an organisation, understand the business need and solve it. Inside Info’s ability to translate our needs into easy to use data models first time and every time has been invaluable. The whole relationship is simple  ”

Haydn Jones, IT Operations Manager
“  Inside Info using QlikView gave us a 15% improved return on rebate investment, while also helping us to better manage promotions, stock, customers and resources to fuel future growth of the business  ”

Nick Vasic, Financial Controller
“  QlikView is the best management tool I’ve ever used  ”

Kim Naylor, CEO, Fujitsu General, NZ
“  Using QlikView, Inside Info has allowed our customers to more easily identify health market trends through more effective geographic and gender profiling, better management of medicines and identification of prescription anomalies and their impact on consumers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director
“  In one example Inside Info & QlikView streamlined a data process from what was days or weeks, or so complicated it wouldn’t be considered, to seconds and that means a better value proposition for us and our customers  ”

Jon Marshall, Managing Director