Home > Services

Why knowing and understanding your data is so important.

Does it need to be said? Being competitive, finding and creating new business value, discovery, research, improving processes, steering, performance management... all of these initiatives start with knowing your company's right data at the right moment. Collecting this data for every aspect of your business and turning it into valuable information can be pretty time and resource consuming. xplore+ offers end-to-end BI services, for middle over large to multinational companies and governmental institutions.

Back End

Data Warehousing. Combining technical skills and a broad business and industry experience, we excel in designing, building and maintaining small Data Marts to a corporate DWH.

ETL. Besides implementing standard ETL processes (reading from and writing to relational sources, flatfiles, XML files etc.) xplore+ also offers ETL services regarding all kinds of Web Service integrations and SharePoint/Documentum integrations.

DWH - SharePoint Collaboration As a Content Management System SharePoint offers functionality to create and maintain all kinds of lists. Using the SharePoint Web Service layer and list-data-as-XML functionality we can integrate this SharePoint data within your Data Warehouse:

• SharePoint as source in your DWH;
• SharePoint as a target sourcing from your DWH;
• SharePoint as a DWH configuration store;
• SharePoint as a DWH process driver.

Front End

Reporting, Dashboarding, Scorecarding and Analytical Applications. As a center of excellence within the BI domain we focus on 2 major vendors:

• IBM Cognos
• Oracle

Have you ever wondered where your sales representatives are? What time of the day they were there? Where they came from and were they went next? You probably have, but then... how answering all these questions? xplore+ offers Geo Spatial services that help you in the development of your visual data maps in all possible business areas. We offer the necessary technical insights, collect with you the location-based data and help you in exploiting the potential of this data using advanced visualizations. Our Geo Spatial Intelligence Services include:

• setting out a custom Geo Spatial Services roadmap;
• defining Geo Analysis user requirements;
• collecting the location-based data;
• geocoding the data and integrating it into you DWH or Datamarts;
• creation of map based visualizations using ViDa Maps;
• integration of the results in your existing performance management environment.

xplore+ offers experience in (distributed) GIS mapping services and technologies (Geospatial Information Systems) used for capturing, storing, analyzing, managing, and presenting data that is linked to locations.

Semantic Technologies. The set of Semantic technologies is used for representing meaning and connecting knowledge. This knowledge is encoded in a form that both people and machines can access and interpret. Within the current IT landscape, Semantic Technology applications make it possible to shift from an information-centric to a knowledge-centric infrastructure. In this area we offer next services:

• plot out a Semantic Technology roadmap;
• Semantic Training;
• Semantic Technology Services (OWL, RDF, RDFa, SPARQL, ...);
• enabling Semantic Web Standards in your existing performance management environment.

Data in the world keeps growing at a vast pace. State-of-the-art technologies are not able to cope with this exponential growth of data. Using new algorithms for data aggregation resulting from Semantic Technologies, we can approach these data volumes and continue to improve what we are doing or what we are seeking for, and eventually create new insight and business value.

While there is much activity in Semantic Web research and deployment, the main focus up till now has been on populating repositories and on querying them. This new technology wave offers exciting new ways to capture and process knowledge but also requests new ways of interacting or interfacing with it. The new breed of multiple devices or interfaces, made familiar by the services emerging on the World Wide Web, is also referred to as augmented interfaces. xplore+ explores these new ways of user interaction and augmented interfaces, delivering both advanced visualization services and software. We provide you with a new, smooth and congenial user experience on top of knowledge that the Semantic Web enables, but also on top of your regular data.