eStore Data Analysis

What is an eStore?
An eStore is an electronic online store and will include a shopping cart. The eStore is a virtual business term describing a bigger chunk of the eBusiness operation than just the shopping cart itself.

What is Data Analysis?
After your store gets up and running, you will probably want to track your sales performance. Many online store builders will allow you to analyze your transactions. Probably the best (and most awarded) store builder in this respect is Viaweb (now Yahoo! Store). You can analyze sales by a number of groups and categories, page views, conversion rate and so on. You can even find out where your visitors came from (the referring URL) and what they were searching for in search engines before arriving at your online store.

One Example of a Solution
Microsoft Data Analyzer is an easy-to-use data analysis tool that offers an innovative graphical analysis interface enabling users to identify trends, opportunities, and potential issues quickly.

Microsoft Data Analyzer extends the business intelligence capabilities of Microsoft Office XP by adding rich visualization and analysis capabilities. Data Analyzer's intuitive user interface complements the powerful analysis features provided by Excel 2002, Office Web Components, and Digital Dashboards. Designed to optimize the advanced features of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services, Data Analyzer is a valuable component of any organization's business intelligence strategy and a key player in the Microsoft business intelligence platform.

Features and Benefits:

Data Analyzer allows users to quickly and easily view business data for intuitive business analysis. It achieves this using flexible, dynamic views that provide visual representations of complex multi-dimensional data stored in an OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) cube.

Share vital business data with others in your environment. Data Analyzer's graphic representations of data and business intelligence communicate the facts at a glance, and users can publish these views with a single click of the mouse.

Data Analyzer simplifies the process of finding information, enabling users to gain valuable knowledge and make better business decisions.

• Easily display relationships across multiple dimensions, such as customer, region, product, and time, in a single view.
• The Export to Excel feature enables you to easily export your data into an Excel workbook or PivotTable report for further analysis.
• The Grid View feature enables you to see the data behind the bars, in its context. Easily switch between bar, grid, and pie chart views to see your data from different perspectives.
• Filter by Criteria enables you to find the most pertinent information by filtering the members in a dimension, displaying more information about a particular member or group of members.
• The Template Measure Editor enables you to define custom measures to apply to your business data.
• The BusinessCenter offers a guided analysis tool that enables you to easily identify trends and answer common business questions.

The final step is analyzing all of the information and figuring out what it means to the client. It may mean what needs to be done to avoid a mistake, or it may mean what needs to be done to take advantage of an opportunity, including what strategic steps are necessary. Also by this time, we try to be sure there will be no surprises because we have had close working relationships with the client throughout the project. The important thing at the end is to help the client make the right decisions, and possibly assist in the implementation of those decisions.

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