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The overwhelming majority of enterprises retain the details of their commercial transactions in large data
warehouses. It has long been recognized that these data warehouses are untapped repositories of valuable
information concerning the enterprise's performance. The goal of Interactive Reporting is to unlock the
inherent value of these data stores and generate a real return on investment.
Necessity of Business Intelligence
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Business Intelligence tools place a heavy burden on users. They have to learn how to use the software,
how to analyze the data, and how to interpret the outcome of each analysis. Interactive Reporting is designed with a keen
understanding of the skills, time, and patience of the users in mind. With one intuitive screen, users are able to:
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Generate reports quickly with built-in Industry Specific Templates
Meet any reporting requirements
Quickly transform almost any data into powerful, dynamic content
Design flexible, feature-rich reports from any any data source
Create "ad hoc" reports with custom queries
Perform On-Line Analysis and Visualization
Perform Modeling and Planning
Drilldown into any data
Generate Pivot Reports
Render Charts from any data
Perform comparative analysis
Generate actionable information
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Business Intelligence - Current Generation
The goal of Interactive Reporting is to lead the next wave of Business Intelligence capabilities through
addressing some of the major drawbacks that exist in many of the BI packages on the market. Some of these
issues include:
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Major organizational commitment is required - implementation of a large system-integration project
typically requires coordination across a large number of departments, each often with a different
operating paradigm.
Accessible only to large enterprises
Significant resources required - in terms of finance, organizational commitment and time allotted to
integration and user training
High level of technical competency required for use - often a full-time administrator is necessary
Cost - minimum pricing for the deployment of Business Intelligence platform is typically $100,000
and up
Large maintenance requirements - systems are typically custom-designed/configured resulting in
costly maintenance and requires a high level of technical competence typically involving expensive
outside consultants.
Entire implementation is enterprise-specific
Long implementation time - installation and adoption of Business Intelligence tools take, at a
minimum, several months and may take up to several years.
Limited modularity - little of the data modeling or system-integration work performed may be reused
Restricted platform heterogeneity - most Business Intelligence platforms require very specific
software configurations both on the server-side and on the client-side.
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Interactive Reporting - Next Generation, Advantages of our Approach
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The vision of Interactive Reporting is to bridge the gap between the overwhelming amount of information held in vast
transactional data warehouses and an enterprise's ability to generate useful business metrics from that data. We leverage
proven technologies and existing competencies, made available through a web-based marketplace, to allow enterprises to
acquire pre-developed data models (templates) and pre-generated mappings between these templates and all major
data warehouses.
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Leverage existing competencies - businesses are no longer required to have a custom solution
developed for their needs with the large, specialized maintenance commitment.
Bring high-performance BI tools within reach of Small to Medium Enterprises - the factors prohibiting
the adoption of BI tools by smaller enterprises are typically cost and the level of technical
competence required. The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of Interactive Reporting is only a fraction of
existing tools, as pre-developed templates and mappings can be obtained, and a full-time
administration commitment is not required.
Self-service - users are able to pose queries using the terminology already present in their enterprise
and obtain graphical and tabular reports displaying the information that is of interest to them.
Information retrievable in a variety of formats (MS-Excel, HTML, Email).
Significantly reduced administration requirements - no client-side administration
Rapid and extensive user adoption - minimal training is required to use Interactive Reporting.
Hide data warehouse weaknesses - all major database systems are supported.
Seamless query, reporting and analysis - users can ask questions of their own choosing.
Selective exposure of enterprise information to users - e.g. allow internal staff to examine data
pertaining only to their own department or allow customers to track their own purchasing patterns.
Configurable security - restrict information availability based on user identity. SSL support is
included for providing data over the Intranet.
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Out-Of-The-Box, we provide the following features and benefits:
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Drilldown by multiple different Sales Variables (Analyze by Item, Rep, Category, Day, Week,
Month). Start at a high level and drilldown into the details
Comparative Analysis - take two arbitrary time periods and compare the change in sales between
the two
Easily Export to Excel
Cope with arbitrary Star Shaped Data Structure
Generate Charts on the fly
One Convenient Screen to allow any of kind of analysis
Ability to email favorites on a scheduled basis
Ability to create restricted accounts for any part of your organization
Allow non-technical people to do advanced analysis without using complicated tools
Get responses in seconds instead of spending days for ad hoc queries
Multi Currency Support
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The Distribution Example:
O'Mahoney Packaging Case Study
The Retail Example:
The Shaw Group Case Study
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