In most cases IT professionals are overloaded with requests for business information, in the form
of reports, from the end-user community and/or many organizations have spent an exorbitant amount
of IT dollars developing warehouse databases, but have no way of analyzing the information
contained in these databases.
Our Crystal certified instructors/consultants have provided solutions for these issues and many
others, on a wide range of platforms. We can provide a team of experienced report developers to
assist you with report design, development, and training.
If you are planning an enterprise implementation, we can deliver customized consulting services
tailored to your business needs. Our experience in delivering enterprise planning and deployment
helps you quickly and effectively meet your goals. Our consultants can assist with management of your
project and provide critical knowledge transfer to ensure timely and successful implementation.
Report Design & Consolidation
- Is it hard to get the information you need to make meaningful business decisions?
- Are you having difficult getting useful reports out of your business system?
- Are you spending a lot of time transcribing data by hand from one report to another?
- Are you manually creating Excel spreadsheets every month in order to capture the state of your business?
Report Optimization
- Optimize to have queries run on the server on demand.
- Use server-side stored procedures for faster report performance.
Report Distribution
- Web-based report distribution with Crystal Enterprise.
- Report Scheduling with Crystal Enterprise.
Installation & Configuration
- Move dictionaries to local drive for enhanced performance.
- Move Crystal Reports Executable for enhanced performance
Consulting Services
Whether your organization is looking to improve the time it takes to close your books each month,
identify the most effective marketing campaign or control employee labor costs, Strafford provides
a full range of services to improve information analysis, presentation and distribution.
Areas of focus include Finance, Sales & Marketing and Human Resources as well as many operational
aspects of our clients organization. Our Business Intelligence services range from developing BI
strategy through enterprise reporting, report distribution and data analysis as well as database
development.