Overview
Managers within your organization
make decisions every day that can have
significant impact on your business.
Those decisions will be as good as the
information they are based on.
Globalization and fast pace of today's
business require accessibility and
flexibility to analyze and share that
information with suppliers, partners,
and customers. Companies today tend to
operate on a number of applications
within an enterprise that were either
purchased departmentally or came along
with an acquisition. Typically they may
operate on different operating systems,
are written in different languages and
utilize different databases. The ability
to access these various data sources,
extract vital business information and
consolidate it so that decisions are
made on a complete situational picture
is critical.
INFINITE BI
INFINITE BI is based on OLAP
technology (on line analytical
processing), a decision support
methodology that allows users to analyze
information summarized into
multidimensional views and hierarchies.
It includes today’s most common BI
requirements incorporated into a single
program – business analysis, dashboards,
balanced scorecards and reporting.
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Business analysis tools identify
trends on business information
so the user can drill down
through extensive business
statistics to isolate problems
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Dashboards serve up real time
business performance indicators
and trends to executives and
managers. |
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Balanced scorecards allow
companies to track budgets,
align strategic direction,
measure performance and project
forward in “what if” games. |
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Reporting includes the
tools to define and design
reports, schedule distribution
or provide them on demand via
the user’s portal page. |
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Security is a critical
consideration when implementing
BI tools. INFINITE BI provides
several layers of granularity.
User roles define access to
menus, forms, and reports. With
record level security access to
specific information in reports
and forms builds can be
restricted. With cell level
security access to individual
cells within a cube can be
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INFINITE BI is a highly scalable, browser accessible, complete solution that
is intuitive for both the tech group and
the business user. It is an ideal
solution for companies wishing to
implement business intelligence
functionality with a low cost of
ownership that is both easy to deploy
and easy to maintain.
Business Analysis
INFINITE BI meets a company’s need
for an uncomplicated interactive
multidimensional visualization, analysis
and reporting solution to target
opportunities, track performance, and
increase profits. It has been designed
to import data from enterprise data
sources into a central repository and
provide business intelligence and
decision support. Designated data
sources can be updated in real time when
necessary. With the easy to use browser
interface, the tool allows a skilled
analyst and non-technical users alike to
quickly manipulate and analyze data and
generate reports when they need them
without the need for IT involvement.
Create Queries and Graphs
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Queries based on the predefined
metrics and keys |
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Complex formulas based on
existing metrics |
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Comparative queries comparing
current and historical data |
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Graphs on the fly based on the
selected information |
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Drill down starting from summary
to details level without knowing
the underlying cube structure |
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Custom and dynamic filters to
subset data set |
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Real time data updates as
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Publishing and Running Queries
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Save and share queries |
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Export to other applications and
databases (Excel, Word, Oracle,
etc.) |
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Role and filter based security
to protect data from
unauthorized access |
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Integrate with other
applications using web services |
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Enhanced performance using
summary tables |
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Distribute Queries and Graphs
via email, subscription or
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Dashboards
Placing a dashboard on an executive’s
sign-on page provides an at-a glance,
real-time snapshot of the business –
revenues, expenses, sales, shipments,
returns, etc. Traffic lights, alerts,
drill-downs, summaries, graphs and
gauges are setup in a portal. Content
can be pre-defined by user group or
customizable. Data can be clickable,
allowing the user to drill down within
the data presented.
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Easy to implement using the web
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Snapshot of business performance |
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Shorten time to decisions with
reports, maps, charts,
scorecards User group-defined
performance indicators to
monitor business
unit/departmental performance |
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Enable drill down for dashboard
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Balanced Scorecards
Balanced scorecards have been around for
over ten years, but many companies have
not adopted them because they seemed so
complex to implement. By focusing on key
strategic business drivers – financial
performance, customer retention,
employee satisfaction and innovation/new
product development, for example –
companies can gauge performance both
quantitatively and qualitatively. Once
statistical relationship can be
established among various business
activities, executive can play "what-if"
games to understand what effect
strategic initiatives might have on the
business.
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Snapshot view of performance
against targets |
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Performance trends with direct
access to underlying data and
reports |
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Means to measure non-financial
performance critical to
long-term business health |
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Metric data to measure past
performance and project future
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Reporting
The integrated report engine module lets
the end-user community can design and
develop professional reports with the
integrated report engine module included
with INFINITE BI. Browser deployed
reports require no setup, applets or
installation at the client machine.
Security-based publishing of pre-defined
reports makes reporting effortless for
the end-user community. At the same
time, a sophisticated toolkit allows
authorized users to create, customize,
publish and run reports on an ad-hoc or
scheduled basis. The Report creation
Wizard is designed with users with
little or no technical background. The
Wizard will guide the users from table
selection to publishing the reports.
Creating Professional Reports
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Delegate reports from legacy
applications to modern reporting
environment |
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Design professional reports
using the engine’s buttons and
icons to insert business charts,
format style, and related
functions |
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Easy to design and customize –
no programming experience
required |
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Customize formatting to include
orientation, font, location of
business graphs and charts, and
more |
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Create ad hoc reports via the
web interface |
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Build reports to run at a
scheduled time or immediately |
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Create reports with filtering,
sorting, calculations and
summary functions |
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Customization capabilities allow
the report format and layout to
be changed on demand |
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Integrate preformatted charts to
visually enhance the report |
Publishing and Running Reports
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Reports can be read, printed,
and disseminated to users based
on security definitions |
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Web browser accessibility is
achieved with a zero-footprint
approach |
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Drill-down capabilities allow
users to get to the level of
detail required before printing
or disseminating |
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Export functions include
integration with other
applications (i.e. Excel), PDF
file format, or push out
directly to a printer |
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Create email distribution to any
mail account on virtually any
timetable |
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Add reports to portal for
reports-on-demand |
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