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Solutions Consulting Group (SCG) Delivers Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services Solution for Chicago Pizza & Brewery
San Diego, CA, Thursday, 1/27/04 - Solutions Consulting Group (SCG) a Microsoft Partner firm located in San Diego and Irvine, California, has announced the successful completion of an advanced Business Intelligence (BI) solution for Chicago Pizza & Brewery using Microsoft Corp.ís new SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services product. Chicago Pizza & Brewery (NASDAQ:CHGO) is a fast growing, high volume restaurant chain based in Irvine.
Chicago Pizza & Brewery is growing at a rate of approximately 25 percent per year. To handle current expansion and prepare for future growth, management needed a way to provide key metrics to management throughout the company. The company contacted its existing enterprise reporting vendor, Custom Business Solutions (CBS), and asked for help. CBS contracted with SCG to provide technical expertise and development resources.
ìOur timelines to deliver this enhancement were very aggressive and solutions on the market to provide Web-based reports were unsatisfactory. I turned to SCG because of their proven track record in business intelligence (BI) and web development utilizing Microsoft .NET,î says Kristopher Maher, Vice President of Development for Custom Business Solutions. ìThey began an evaluation of technologies that would be the right fit for the NorthStar system (Chicago Pizza & Breweryís enterprise reporting portal). When they showed us Microsoftís new Reporting Services product, I was floored. SCG developed all or our report offerings and provided us the expertise we needed to successfully integrate Reporting Services into our product line.î
Kirk Nason, SQL Server Architectural Technology Specialist for Microsoft Southern California, worked with SCG to assure that Chicago Pizza & Brewery benefited fully from taking advantage of Reporting Servicesí capabilities. ìItís important that we keep our most progressive Microsoft Solution Provider Partners like SCG up to speed on Microsoftís newest technologies,î says Nason. ìWe saw in this reporting project an opportunity to radically reduce time to market for Chicago Pizza & Brewery, and to greatly increase their business agility and access to critical business information with Reporting Services. With Reporting Services, SQL Server provides the single-most comprehensive BI platform on the market with integrated analytics, data mining, data warehousing and reporting functionality enabling companies to get more for less.î
SCG recommended Reporting Services as the web reporting tool of choice because of its tight integration with the Microsoft SQL Server platform and the entire .NET Framework. Reporting Services also provides excellent ease of use in creating sophisticated web reports that include analytical functionality. ìReporting Services is the next step that Microsoft has taken to enable companies to have true business intelligence capabilities. The ability to quickly deliver functional web reports used to require very expensive software or a significant development budgetî says Bill Edmett, Chief Technology Officer at SCG.
ìReporting Services provided us with a fast product-to-market position because of its ease of integration into our current NorthStar system and also because of the comprehensive way it dealt with all the complexities of creating reports on a web browserî stated Kris Maher of CBS. Reporting Services allowed CBS and SCG to meet the project timeline successfully and to provide a robust and scalable solution. ìBy using SQL Reporting Services we found that the time to write the report itself became just a fraction of the time to write the design specs. This cut our development time for report writing by more than fifty percent,î says Joseph Castillo, Director of Application Development at CBS.
About SCG, Inc.
Solutions Consulting Group (SCG) delivers Risk-free IT designed to give Southern California organizations a competitive advantage. Through custom application development and integration of world-class technologies, SCG implements complex IT solutions, and often rescues failed projects, to deliver a measurable return on investment. Competencies include Business Intelligence (BI), CRM, ERP, and e-business solutions. SCG's experienced, certified IT professionals, fixed fee process and proprietary project methodologies assure clients that their IT challenges will be resolved on time and on budget. SCG focuses on the data management, business reporting and IT needs of clients in the construction/industrial, consumer electronics, restaurant and hospitality, healthcare/biomedical, insurance/finance, non-profit, software/technology, and discreet manufacturing industries. Visit www.scg.net for case studies and more information.
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