Cyberquery Accelerator - BI Tools

Business Intelligence BI Software : Cyberquery Accelerator

A breakthrough in data access
Cyberquery Accelerator is a breakthrough in data access technology. Most ad-hoc database queries complete thousands of times faster. The speed of Accelerator empowers you to understand trends, discover facts and find particular records in a tiny fraction of the time previously required. In business analysis, one query often leads to another - with such train of thought enquiries, the near-instantaneous response of Accelerator transforms your productivity. This leads to far greater business insight, giving you power, control and competitive advantage. Accelerator will change your perception of what is possible.

Transforms the value of your data
Even without Accelerator, Cyberquery transforms data into valuable business information. Acceleration makes Cyberquery many times more productive. Difficult queries that would otherwise have taken far too long become a breeze. Answers to questions that would have been impractical with older technology can now be produced in an instant. Accelerator maximizes throughput on your hardware too - for most queries, a small computer with Cyberquery Accelerator will outperform a massively parallel data warehouse costing millions.

Compelling technology
Cyberquery Accelerator benefits all users no matter what the size of their database. With tens of thousands of records, average query response time drops from tens of seconds to a fraction of a second. With tens of millions of records, average response time drops from hours to seconds. We believe that the advantages of Accelerator are so compelling that once you have experienced it, you will see it as being almost as essential as a phone, fax or photocopier.

Source: For more information on business intelligence BI software, Cyberscience Cyberquery Accelerator, visit cyberscience.com

Cyberscience BI Tool - Cyberquery

Business Intelligence BI software : Cyberscience Cyberquery

"Cyberquery is not just an ad-hoc reporting product - we are using it to drive the business." - Dave McAllister, Wade Furniture Group

Cyberquery provides the key to fast, informed decision making - information. Cyberquery is a high-performance ad-hoc query and production reporting system that delivers business intelligence to key personnel in seconds.

Cyberquery fully supports all major databases including Oracle, SQL Server, Progress, DB2, Informix Online, Sybase, MySQL, Acucobol, Micro Focus COBOL, flat files and C-ISAM databases with native interfaces. Other systems can be accessed with ODBC. Cyberquery is available for all major Unix platforms and Microsoft Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.

Cyberquery is unique in the reporting arena. It is a single product that meets the needs of the entire spectrum of users. Ease-of-use, speed of use and depth of accessible functionality provide both ad-hoc and production reporting for everyone from occasional users, senior managers, professional data analysts to programmers.

Eliminating the barriers to business information
Cyberquery breaks the barriers to your data, making it easier to make informed decisions. Cyberquery makes business analysis highly productive and quickly provides insight, transforming your ability to obtain the information you want, when you want it.

User empowerment
The power and simplicity of Cyberquery allow users to create everything from simple queries, business graphics and crosstab reports to production reports. Users can explore data using drilldown and easily switch between summaries and charts. Cyberquery is fully integrated with email and the web, so information can be distributed automatically. Cyberquery brings power to every user's desk.

Source: For more information on business intelligence BI software, Cyberscience Cyberquery, check out http://www.cyberscience.com/cyberquery.html

Cyberscience BI products

Business Intelligence BI Software : Cyberscience products

Cyberscience products provide your organization with the solution to fast, informed decision making. Our products empower your key decision makers with the critical information they need in seconds, not hours.

Cyberquery
Cyberquery is an easy to use, high performance business intelligence, ad-hoc query and reporting solution for power users, occasional users and IT professionals. Cyberquery eliminates barriers to vital data, empowering key decision-makers to access valuable information held in your business applications. Cyberquery is usually the single best investment you can make to enhance your IT systems. Cyberquery dramatically increases the power of your systems by adding the flexibility you require.

Cyberquery Accelerator
Once in a while a product comes along that completely changes our understanding of what is possible. Cyberquery Accelerator isn't just a few degrees of progress in the technology of report writing and decision support; it's the breakthrough that makes rapid access to real information a reality for everyone and anyone.

Cyberscreen
Cyberscreen is a rapid application development environment for platform independent, database independent, Internet-enabled applications. Its fourth generation language is an order of magnitude more productive than competing development tools, and its underlying technology - shared with Cyberquery - gives it unsurpassed power and flexibility.

Data Dictionary
The Data Dictionary is straightforward to understand and use. Usually, large applications have a complex database. The Cyberquery Data Dictionary makes it easy to present the database as a conceptual data model the users can quickly understand. The effort to set up and maintain the Cyberquery Data Dictionary is exceptionally low. This leads to fast implementation and substantial cost savings.


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Cyberscience BI products

Business Intelligence Software : Cyberscience BI products

Cyberscience products provide your organization with the solution to fast, informed decision making. Our products empower your key decision makers with the critical information they need in seconds, not hours.

Cyberquery
Cyberquery is an easy to use, high performance business intelligence, ad-hoc query and reporting solution for power users, occasional users and IT professionals. Cyberquery eliminates barriers to vital data, empowering key decision-makers to access valuable information held in your business applications. Cyberquery is usually the single best investment you can make to enhance your IT systems. Cyberquery dramatically increases the power of your systems by adding the flexibility you require.

Cyberquery Accelerator
Once in a while a product comes along that completely changes our understanding of what is possible. Cyberquery Accelerator isn't just a few degrees of progress in the technology of report writing and decision support; it's the breakthrough that makes rapid access to real information a reality for everyone and anyone.

Cyberscreen
Cyberscreen is a rapid application development environment for platform independent, database independent, Internet-enabled applications. Its fourth generation language is an order of magnitude more productive than competing development tools, and its underlying technology - shared with Cyberquery - gives it unsurpassed power and flexibility.

Data Dictionary
The Data Dictionary is straightforward to understand and use. Usually, large applications have a complex database. The Cyberquery Data Dictionary makes it easy to present the database as a conceptual data model the users can quickly understand. The effort to set up and maintain the Cyberquery Data Dictionary is exceptionally low. This leads to fast implementation and substantial cost savings.

Source: For more information business intelligence BI software, Cyberscience, check out http://www.cyberscience.com/products.html

Baulderstone Hornibrook – Generating High ROI from Enterprise BI

Calumo BI Case Study : Baulderstone Hornibrook – Generating High ROI from Enterprise BI

Business Scenario

Baulderstone Hornibrook’s Mission is to deliver sustainable solutions exceeding client and community expectations. With a turnover in excess of A$1 billion and work in hand of A$1.9 billion, Baulderstone is one of Australia’s largest construction groups, creating and delivering innovative solutions for the community’s large and complex infrastructure needs.

In this complex environment “it is essential that the organisation is equipped with a “real time”, single, 360 Degree view of enterprise performance,” notes Ian Pearl, Group Manager Controlling & IT, Baulderstone Hornibrook.

For Baulderstone this means that its Enterprise intelligence platform is required to provide inter-operability with several disparate data sources often in real-time. These discreet inputs are aggregated and fused to provide knowledge for a range of purposes from digital executive dash-boarding to operational reporting.

Tangible Benefits

Baulderstone has built its culture around values including innovation, openness, personal integrity, the spirit of discovery, safety for well-being and responsiveness. SPF Plus/TM1 has found its place firmly supporting these values and assisting Baulderstone to achieve its mission.

The benefits of Bauldertone’s SPF Plus/TM1 implementation have been manifold and include:

• Better forecasting resulting in better management of working capital
• Where required, information can be deployed to all users immediately through reports relevant to them – one version of the truth available in near real time
• The ability to leverage its reporting capabilities with core but disparate systems used for measuring and managing safety and defects. This supports Baulderstone’s business model of decentralisation and accountability with improvements in transparency together with cost and process efficiencies
• Minimised defects and improved workflow and visibility of defects stanotification to PDA’s for rectifying defectstistics using system generated alerts
• Improved cash forecasting
• Consolidation of Project KPI’s into simple one page analysis/review sheets
• Transparency and standardisation in safety incident reporting; promoting improvement in safety performance and potential to reduce cost related to accidents

Business Solution

Initially SPF Plus/TM1 was deployed in 1999 to streamline the preparation and distribution of the divisional financial reports and metrics. These reports were combined into web-based Executive dashboards and summaries enabling both Executives and Managers to drill into One Version of the Truth from their own perspectives and for their own needs.

Seeing the potential application for operational data as well as financial information, the implementation is now being expanded. The ground work for full-capability Corporate Performance Management is now clearly laid.

Requirements in Detail

Baulderstone had a carefully considered list of requirements for its chosen BI tool which included:

• The flexibility to deliver “our business our way”
• Improve standard processes for consolidation
• Streamline workflow documentation and processes for rectifying defects
• Provide a collaborative environment to minimise defects
• Integration of KPI’s with reward systems
• Emphasis on key business drivers with Dashboard based exception reporting
• Refinement of Performance Measures
• A 360º view of Enterprise Performance
• Cost effective rapid deployment
• A single platform for planning, reporting and web deployment
• Effective collection, delivery and presentation of key metrics and daily statistics via the web across all business units
• Minimising costs of recording incidents
• Intuitive and positive user experience
• Tight integration between Web reports, Excel and the BI system
  integrity, reliability and transparency of the data
• Scalability and best of breed performance and response times maintained as the system scales
• Rapid and demonstrable pay-back
• Web based, ad hoc reporting and analysis with real-time links to other data sources/data marts
• Workflow, alerts/notifications exception reporting
• Tight integration with, and decision support to, Executive Business Reviews

Getting to the Future First

On the future of Bauderstone’s Business Intelligence platform Ian Pearl notes that “Over the next 12 months, the plan is to really push the capabilities of this solution. We have so much more potential with SPF Plus/TM1, the boundaries of Excel are now very clear and we have surpassed them 10 fold.”

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Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services MS SQL SSAS

With SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services provides, for the first time, a unified and integrated view of all your business data as the foundation for all of your traditional reporting, OLAP analysis, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) scorecards and data mining.

By introducing a single Unified Dimensional Model (UDM), Analysis Services combines the flexibility and richness of the traditional relational reporting model with the user-friendly powerful analytics and the superb performance of the classic OLAP model.

With Proactive Caching and advanced business intelligence capabilities, Analysis Services moves into the realm of real-time analytics while maintaining MOLAP class performance.

Major enhancements in enterprise capabilities including scalability, manageability, and productivity, soundly position Analysis Services as the cornerstone of your Business Intelligence (BI) infrastructure and with the deep integration with SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services and with Microsoft Office, Analysis Services 2005 will extend business intelligence to every level of your business.

Unified Dimensional Model
By combining the best aspects of traditional OLAP analysis and relational reporting, Analysis Services 2005 provides a metadata model that covers both sets of needs. A set of cubes and dimensions defined in Analysis Services 2005 is referred to as a Unified Dimensional Model, or UDM. The UDM is a central metadata repository defining business entities, business logic, calculations, and metrics that serves as the source for all reports, spreadsheets, OLAP browsers, KPIs and analytical applications.

Using the powerful new Data Source View feature, the UDM is mapped to a host of heterogeneous back-end data sources allowing a complete and integrated picture of the business regardless of the location of the data.

With the UDM's friendly descriptions of the business entities, navigation hierarchies, multiple perspectives, and even automatic translations to native languages the end-users will find it easy to explore the corporate business data.

Proactive Caching
Proactive Caching enables the combination of real-time updates with MOLAP class performance. Analysis Services 2005 maintains a highly compressed and optimized data cache that gets automatically maintained as the data in the underlying source databases changes. The cache provides superb query performance and isolates the back-end source systems from the load of the analytical queries.

Advanced Business Intelligence
Key Performance Indicator (KPI). The KPI framework provides a rich centralized repository defining key metrics and scorecards. The KPI framework in Analysis Services 2005 allows you to easily build balanced scorecard and other types of business performance management applications.

Translations. Translations provide a simple, centrally-managed mechanism for storing and presenting analytic data to users in their preferred languages. * MDX Scripts. MDX Scripts are the new mechanism for defining Calculated Members, Named Sets, and Cell Calculations. * Business Intelligence Wizards. A set of easy to use wizards will help even the most novice user in modeling some of the more complex business intelligence problems. * Semi-Additive Measures. New measure aggregation type for advance data modeling includes last-non-empty, last-child, first-child, average-of-children and even by-account-type.

Web Services
XML for Analysis (XML/A) is the native, standards-based protocol for communicating with the Analysis Services server. New kinds of applications are enabled and easy to develop - applications that integrate analytics with operations in real time that can access the data from any platform and any language.

With XML/A as the native protocol, Analysis Services clients can be configured to have a zero footprint, and each server is automatically a web service. * A light-footprint Win32 layer is available for backward compatibility with tools that work with Analysis Services 2000 on OLE DB for OLAP, ADOMD, and ADOMD.Net.

Enterprise Capabilities
Analysis Services 2005 sets a new standard for BI servers in enterprise scalability, manageability, and productivity:

• Scalability. Analysis Services 2005 scales to the most demanding analytical and reporting applications. With Analysis Services' new dimension architecture, UDM-enabled applications allow users to quickly perform rich and intuitive adhoc analysis using hundreds of dimensions and hierarchies. Hierarchies, whether flat or multilevel, make it easier for the users to navigate and query UDMs with hundreds of millions of members.
• The new architecture also removes the limitations of memory resident dimensions and the number of children members per parent. With XML/A-based communication protocol that is paired with greatly optimized role based security; Analysis Services 2005 allows a UDM to handle thousands of users, enabling enterprise scale BI applications using web/middle tier or client/server architectures. Additionally, with parallelized partition and dimension processing Analysis Services can handle more data faster.
• Manageability. By integrating the management tools for the relational engine and Analysis Services, the BI administrator benefits from having a single uniform environment for managing Analysis Services along with SQL Server. With SQL Management Studio, administrators can easily script Analysis Services objects and operations/tasks. Administrators can use a rich editor for MDX and DMX queries. Profiler can be used to trace, capture, and replay Analysis Services queries and other commands. Multi-Instancing, enhanced backup and restore, synchronization of databases across servers, and improved fine-grained administrative permissions are some of the new manageability tools available.
• Productivity. Integrated with Visual Studio, Analysis Services intuitive wizards and editors provide a true application development environment supporting the full life cycle of the project. Source control, versioning, workstation isolation, embedded debugging, and configuration management are some of the benefit of the new BI Development Studio. Additional Information.

Source: For more information on business intelligence BI software, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, check out http://www.calumo.com/microsoftsqlserveranalysis.html

Calumo BI Extract Transform Load

Business Intelligence BI Software : Calumo Extract Transform Load

SQL Server 2005 includes a new enterprise data integration platform. This platform, with exceptional ETL and integration capabilities, enables organizations to more easily manage data from a wide array of traditional and non-traditional data sources. With SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), organizations gain a competitive edge through a holistic view of their business.

Enterprise Data Integration Platform
The SQL Server Integration Services platform takes the place of a popular feature in SQL Server 2000, Data Transformation Services (DTS). But SSIS is completely new for SQL Server2005, providing the features and per-formance necessary to build enterprise-class data integration applications. The performance advantage of the transformation engine is noticeable from lightweight 32-bit systems to high-end 64-bit architectures.

Development Environment. The Business Intelligence Development Studio hosts an intuitive UI for rapidly developing SSIS packages. The Studio also enables shared solutions with Analysis Services and Reporting Services including source control, metadata integration, and a complete environment for designing, testing, deploying and maintaining end-to-end Business Intelligence applications.

Visual debugging. Developer productivity reaches new levels with visual debugging. With Data Viewers designers can see the data pipeline at work, visualizing data during transformation in grids, graphs and charts, while breakpoints, variable watches and the call stack provide powerful debugging capabilities.

Data connectivity. Integration of diverse data sources and destinations is easy. In addition to common sources, that include text files, OLEDB and ADO.NET (including ODBC for .NET), there is also simplified access to data within SAP. Built in support for XML and Web Services data enables easy integration of service oriented architectures and other non-standard data sources. An optimized SQL Server destination offers data loading, and even SQL Server Mobile databases can be targeted directly. With metadata integration and shared engineering, Reporting Services reports, or Analysis Services cubes can be loaded straight from the SSIS pipeline.

Out of the box, high performance, transformations. SQL Server Integration Services includes a great range of productive and powerful components, such as data and character conversions, calculated columns, conditional operations for partitioning and filtering, lookups, sorting, aggregation, and merges. Advanced components simplify otherwise complex operations such as Slowly Changing Dimension loading. Custom requirements can be met with flexible and fast VisualBasic.NET scripts, or developers can readily code and distribute their own reusable components.

Data quality and data mining. For data quality, Fuzzy Lookup and Fuzzy Grouping components provide inexact matching and de-duplication. Data mining features can train models from integrated data, but also bring new capabilities to the data integration process. Use predictive models to impute incomplete and missing data, or use association and clustering models to identify outliers and anomalies for data quality issues - all captured, with rigorous audit and execution metadata.

Trustworthy and reliable.Package configurations customize the way a package runs in different circumstances, for example for different server environments. Packages for deployment can be secured and digitally signed, and a simple wizard enables easy installation of deployed packages. Checkpoint restart and transaction support, together with WMI listeners and flexible error-handling and event-driven features enables resilient processes for unattended execution. Integration with the SQL Server Management Studio simplifies the management and monitoring of packages in the SQL Server ecosystem.

Integrating the community. SQL Server Integration Services is not just about integrating data. The architecture and infrastructure empowers a remarkably dynamic and diverse community from specialized software vendors to committed users. The infrastructure of SQL Server Integration Services is so readily extensible and powerful that vendors can easily develop and distribute their own advanced components, while users enjoy active and helpful communities for sharing ideas, components and support.

Source: For more information on BI business intelligence software, Calumo Extract Transform Load (ETL), check out http://www.calumo.com/extract-transform-load.html

Calumo BI Financial Consolidation

Business Intelligence BI Software : Calumo Financial Consolidation

Consolidating complex corporate structures is an integral part of today’s reporting requirements.
CALUMO makes this possible allowing you to:

• Consolidate multiple ledgers for internal and external reporting
• Accelerate closing cycles by automating processes from source to disclosure
• Drive your global business with native support for multilingual and multi-currency operations
• Automate eliminations & inter company balances and provide the necessary transaction audit trails

Source: For more information on BI business intelligence software, Calumo Financial Consolidation, check out http://www.calumo.com/financialconsolidations.html

Calumo BI Workflow & Alerting

Business Intelligence Software : Calumo Workflow & Alerting

CALUMO provides actionable analysis and reporting through:

• Exception reports, top and bottom n items, variance analysis and trending, all available with e-mail and alert notification
• Advanced workflow functionality for transparent accountability, task status and efficient communication
• Automated alerts and notification based on threshold ranges

Source: For more information on business intelligence BI software, Calumo Workflow and Alerting, check out http://www.calumo.com/workflow-alerting.html

Calumo BI Planning & Forecasting

Business Intelligence Software : Calumo Planning & Forecasting

CALUMO integrates planning, budgeting, forecasting, modelling, and consolidation. It lets your organisation convert and communicate corporate strategy into operational planning and forecasting (e.g. Sales, HR, Finance, etc.). Through review and analyses, plans realign in real-time as events unfold.

Top-down, Bottom-up, Zero-based, or hybrid planning methodologies with secure distribution and data-entry capability

• Link calculations to central drivers
• Enable real-time what-if and scenario planning re-forecast at the touch of a button
• Store multiple budget versions
• Full audit trail of budget input changes
• Roll back unwanted changes
• Incorporating actual results for trending and extrapolation
• Incorporate complex allocation methodologies and ?nancial modelling calculations
• Rolling forecasts for multiple time periods and plans
• Integrate actual, budget, forecast and variance

Source: For more information on business intelligence BI software, Calumo Planning and Forecasting, visit http://www.calumo.com/planning-forecasting.html

Calumo BI Reporting & Analysis

Business Intelligence Software : Calumo Reporting and Analysis

Best practice in BPM relies on a continuous cycle of reporting, planning, monitoring and action.

The CALUMO BPM suite delivers all of these capabilities in a single, comprehensive and unified solution.

CALUMO transforms vast stores of operational data into useful knowledge and delivers it using the terms and formats that your employees understand. CALUMO empowers your people to analyse and use data unassisted, with simple mouse clicks and familiar interfaces, and then share their insight with colleagues for improved collaboration.

CALUMO is the complete package for Reporting and Analysis allowing users to:

• Build interactive dashboard reports using inbuilt charting, gauges and other graphical capability
• Rapidly create ad-hoc views and reports in MS-Excel and publish them to the web, via a single mouse click
• Create highly formatted, interactive “Briefing Books” via the Web or Excel, which automatically cascade across the corporate hierarchy or other reporting structures
• Create “Pull” report portals or “Push” batch report sets
• Incorporate conditional formatting and “Traffic Lighting” with user-de?ned thresholds for fast colour-coded visualisation at any report level
• Combine multi-dimensional and relational data
• Access their data in real-time Drill-through to transactions and other summary data
• Store commentary at every report level, and link to supporting documents
• Easily maintain pervasive securities and permissions
• Analyse large volumes of data to discover patterns and trends through powerful data mining capability
• Manage financial and non-financial data

Source: For more information on business intelligence software, Calumo Reporting and Analysis, visit http://www.calumo.com/reporting-analysis.html

Business Intelligence guide

BI Software Articles : Business Intelligence guide by Mansi gupta

Business intelligence can be defined as a set of business processes designed to garner and analyze business information. It is a vast category of application of programs that includes providing access to data to help an entrepreneur in his business decisions, task of query and reporting, online analytical processing (OLAP), statistical analysis, forecasting and data mining.

Big and small companies collect information to assess the business environment i.e. to acquire a sustainable competitive advantage in the business environment and also cover the areas of marketing research, industry research and competitive analysis. Every business intelligence system has a particular purpose (be it short term or a long term purpose) based on a vision statement or organizational goal.

Business intelligence involves different strategies. The BI task can be handled with the aid of application software. Application software is broadly categorized under class of computer software that enables a computer to function in accordance with what the user desires. The application software is different from the system software that integrates different capabilities of the computer but these are not directly applied to the benefit of the user. The application software is designed to help people be prudent in taking decisions by imparting them accurate, current and requisite information. This is precisely the reason that business intelligence is also referred to as 'decision-support system' or DSS.

While framing and implementing a business intelligence program there are several crucial points to be borne in mind.

a) The goal or the purpose of the program, in simple terms the goal of the organization that the program will address should be considered. There should be a rough idea of how can the program will lead to better results.

b) Secondly the expense of adopting a new business intelligence program should be estimated. Along with this the risk involved in the business intelligence program should also be calculated and so planning should be done accordingly.

c) A person should also know that who all will be direct and indirect beneficiaries and who will pay for the initiative. Also see what will be the quantitative and qualitative benefits and about employees, shareholders, distribution channels etc.

d) The information so gathered must be tracked into well-defined metrics. A person should be sure of the kind of metrics adopted, its standardization and its performance.

e) A person should establish a procedure to reach the ideal way of measuring the requisite metrics. In this you must also acknowledge what methods to be adopted and the pace at which the organization will collect the data. Make sure that you know about existing industry standards if any and the best way to do the measurements.

f) The business intelligence program should be carefully governed to ensure completion of the desired targets. You may have to make several adjustments or modifications in the program from time to time. The business intelligence program should also be tested for accuracy, reliability and validity. One should also know that how the business intelligence initiative entails a variation in results and how much change was a chance product.

About the Author
Mansi gupta recommends that you visit Business Intelligence for more information.

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To-Order Manufacturers' Business Intelligence

BI Software Articles : To-Order Manufacturers' Business Intelligence by Thomas Cutler

Retrieving departmental or enterprise data to make informed business decisions is challenging for many organizations. Critical business information is often hidden in transactional systems, spreadsheets, or disparate databases. Although databases organize and store large volumes of data for easy computer transaction processing, they are not constructed for easy user access of analysis.

In a To-Order environment business processes are significantly influenced by the nature of the order or contract being executed. No only can each order or contract involve different types of processes, but the value of contracts can have a significant influence.

According to Stephen Carson, Executive vice president with Visibility Corporation, "Visibility's Reporting & Analytic Solutions unlock critical business information and transform data into knowledge. All pre-built departmental solutions are designed with the best practice architecture that facilitates speed to deploy and flexibility to accommodate unique Key Performance Indicators for a complex manufacturing organization."

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software for the Complex Manufacturing sector, non-repetitive manufacturing, has been less than effective in accomplishing these strategic advantages until VISIBILITY.net. Business integration, comprehensive functionality, collaborative capabilities, global features and compliance based controls enable effective decision making, increased organizational productivity, and a system infrastructure optimized for profitable business growth.

Complex manufacturers have more than fifty percent of their business in international markets. The need to access the dynamic communication interface has never been stronger according. Strategic advantages across the entire enterprise must include Operations Management, Technology, Business Performance Management, Collaboration, Material & Production Planning, Financial Management, Customer Relationship Management and Engineering & Product Lifecycle Management.

Visibility Corporation (www.visibility.com) is a leading developer and supplier of business software solutions designed for the unique needs of project-based, engineer-to-order and to-order manufacturers. Visibility's Enterprise Application solutions help midsize manufacturers of complex products operate their businesses effectively. Visibility has an extensive customer base throughout North America and Europe and has the strongest representation of ERP among complex manufacturers.

VISIBILITY.net is an integrated ERP solution and more. Offering unparalleled functionality and integrated workflow, this browser-based solution cost effectively delivers the power of .NET-based Web services for use with either a Microsoft SQL Server™ or Oracle® database. Conducting business any place, any time, any where is a reality, deployable with unprecedented flexibility.

Visibility www.visibility.com Jaclyn Aldrich marketing@visibility.com 978-694-8000

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The Sales Manager's Guide to Business Intelligence

BI Software Articles : The Sales Manager's Guide to Business Intelligence by R.L. Fielding

The Business Intelligence Edge As a Sales Manager, you rely on extensive data collection and analysis as a fundamental part of your practice. Business Intelligence software can help you can sail through these daily challenges with greater speed and confidence than ever before. The information provided by Business Intelligence software is vital in the development of products and the maximization of profits. On any given day, you may need instant access to sales and marketing data on the fly: sales by territory; profitability by client; or sales rep performance data. Your IT staff may already be stretched to the limit and unable to accommodate your growing needs for the info that fuels the Sales department's success.

That's why it's more critical than ever to have software configured for business intelligence needs that can tap into your corporate information resources without needing to involve the IT department every time. With business intelligence software in place, you can create the exact report you're looking for without the back and forth that occurs when you rely on others to pull the data together. The end-result is a set of totally customized and ad-hoc integrated reports that can more effectively reveal significant patterns or correlations in data and maybe even lead to that "Aha" moment that helps close a big deal.

The Growing Role of BI Software

As a sales manager, you are under pressure not only to plan and coordinate the activities of a sales team, but also to control product distribution, monitor budget performance, train and motivate personnel, and prepare forecasts. In the past, you may have manually sifted through mountains of data to produce relevant, actionable information. This process wastes time and talent that could be better spent elsewhere. A large part of your job is to direct the sales program and help the company-at-large choose intelligent courses of action. Delays in data processing directly threaten management's ability to adjust their activities quickly enough to achieve the maximum benefit. But with BI software, you can integrate important data on-the-fly to help you make better sales decisions. You can use the software to gather, store and analyze data, providing accurate, up-to-date information on demand. This can help you identify new sales opportunities, adjust sales pitches, plan sales campaigns or allocate resources without spending hours combing through different data sets. Business Intelligence software makes analyses easy by providing different views of company data, through methods such as filtering and recognizing patterns. Data from the current customer and prior customer databases, company orders database, lead database, online sales vs. offline sales records, sales pipeline records and other data files can be pulled into one comprehensive, easy-to-read report to answer your most pressing business questions.

You can access data and create ad-hoc reports yourself, according to your schedule, without having to look for IT support. The software enables users to view tables and fields from multiple databases--even disparate databases--right at a single workstation. You can pull data from various sources in the same "Request" for information, just as though they are all from the same database.

Some of the best Business Intelligence software for midsize enterprises helps you develop a "Request" that produces a "Result Set" of data. From that, you might produce and publish many different formats, including reports; Data Cubes, MS Excel spreadsheets, calendar, XML or raw data. Moreover, you should be able to post or email the results anywhere, or export them as PDF, RTF, TIFF, HTML, TXT, DBF, XLS or CVS files.

Sales Managers Profit from BI

Business Intelligence software provides the rapid feedback that sales managers need to assess their strategy and shorten the time to close. These tools can reveal critical information on how your products are being received and help you to better understand your customers.

With BI software, you can track revenue streams and the response to marketing, and identify the activities that yield the most profit. Imagine being able to predict how much money each of your customers was going to spend or which products each was going to purchase over the next few months. Business Intelligence software can analyze sales statistics gathered by your staff to determine sales potential and inventory requirements, and to monitor customers' preferences, making this dream a reality and your job a little easier. By tracking and analyzing the efforts of your sales team, you can assign sales territories, set goals and establish training programs more effectively, while advising the sales representatives on ways to improve their sales performance. Well-informed management decisions that allow strong performance to be properly rewarded are what separate the top managers from the rest of the pack. Implementing business intelligence software can help differentiate you from the rest. By integrating more advanced Business Intelligence practices into your corporate decision-making, you can better control the sales pipeline from initial opportunity and lead to final close, thus allowing you to grow revenues quickly, predictably, and profitably by focusing on the right deals at the right time. Business Intelligence software can empower your team with the extra competitive edge to drive sales figures to new heights.

This article is copyrighted by Decision Technology. It may not be reproduced in whole or in part and may not be posted on other websites, without the express written permission of the author who may be contacted via email at DTI@digitalbrandexpressions.com.

About Decision Technology, Inc. Decision Technology business intelligence software is the ideal solution for organizations with limited IT resources, and whose data are confined in disparate databases or operational systems. Since 1985, Decision Technology has provided organizations with intuitive, information retrieval software for decision support applications. Its newest business intelligence software product, DecisionCentric, provides Enterprise Information Integration with query and reporting tools optimized for small and medium size organizations. It enables users to integrate, publish and analyze enterprise data across disparate databases--without expensive ETL technology.

About the Author
R.L. Fielding has been a freelance writer for 10 years, offering her expertise and skills to a variety of major organizations in the education, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, financial services, and manufacturing industries. She lives in New Jersey with her dog and two cats and enjoys rock climbing and ornamental gardening.

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Business Intelligence with Strong Reporting and Analytics

BI Articles : Business Intelligence with Strong Reporting and Analytics by Thomas Cutler

Reporting and Analytics in Visibility Analytic products have standard Business Intelligence cubes for Projects, GL, AP, AR, Sales, Inventory, IT Help Desk, Labor and Purchasing.
Specific reporting functionality includes web-based report design including:

* Point and Click Query Builder * Advanced mode, SQL editor * Multiple database queries * Independent Report Header, Footer, Body Queries for maximum flexibility and efficiency * Unlimited independent sub-reports * Formatting by Rob and/or Column * Alternate Row formatting

Delivering Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions is Visibility Corporation's proven methodology. The approach to implementing BI is designed to provide quick wins and a fast return-on-investment.

Engineer-to-order manufacturers "hit the ground running" with these BI solutions by: * Identifying critical unfulfilled business information needs * Installing package Data Marts to aggregate and unlock information * Extracting and transforming data from existing corporate systems * Delivering reports, key performance metrics and ad hoc query tools to understand and us the information.

Visibility Corporation (www.visibility.com) is a leading developer and supplier of business software solutions designed for the unique needs of project-based, engineer-to-order and to-order manufacturers. Visibility's Enterprise Application solutions help midsize manufacturers of complex products operate their businesses effectively.

VISIBILITY.net is an integrated ERP solution and more. Offering unparalleled functionality and integrated workflow, this browser-based solution cost effectively delivers the power of .NET-based Web services for use with either a Microsoft SQL Server™ or Oracle® database. Conducting business any place, any time, any where is a reality, deployable with unprecedented flexibility.

Visibility www.visibility.com Jaclyn Aldrich marketing@visibility.com 978-694-8000

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A "Top Pick" for Your Business Intelligence Vendor "Short List"

Business Intelligence Software Articles : A "Top Pick" for Your Business Intelligence Vendor "Short List" by Brian Jeffery

One of the key things we have seen over the years is that most of the industry's business intelligence tools are designed by major business intelligence vendors (collectively, "Big BI") for Fortune 500 users. The way they are designed and priced reflects that. By the time you have added in the cost of back-end data migration, implementation and training, the tab even in a small organization routinely runs to six figures.

You have to distinguish between two sets of challenges: the complexity of data sources, and the complexity of analysis. Even a small organization may have dozens of different, more or less incompatible data sources. But the information that is needed is often more basic, and the analysis tasks simpler than you find in large companies. Although SMBs might find it useful to have a "big" business intelligence vendor with high-powered analytical tools, they will get significantly higher returns from providing individual users with the subsets of data they need to do their jobs more effectively.

Part of the problem is that high-end tools are designed for analysis jobs of a size and complexity which are overkill for most SMBs, and they tend to be geared to the needs of specialists rather than generalists. In an SMB environment, the choice often boils down to: are you going to provide 100 people with useful data for, say $50,000, or just three people with "rocket science" data for $150,000? Nine times out of ten, the largest benefits for the business are going to be from getting data to the 100.

There are too many people in this business selling Cadillac solutions for Ford problems, and there are too many SMBs who buy that because they don't understand that there are alternatives. That "Big BI" solution may have helped a $20 billion company to figure out the best way of managing its global toothpaste brands, but the decisions you're dealing with are a lot closer to home. And your whole IT budget wouldn't even pay for their ETL tools.

If you would like to read the complete article, please visit Decision Technology at http://www.decision-technology.com/article_jeffery.htm.

The International Technology Group (ITG), established in 1983, is an independent research and management consulting firm specializing in information technology (IT) investment strategy, cost/benefit metrics, infrastructure studies, deployment tactics, business alignment and financial analysis. info-itg@pacbell.net, (650) 949-8410.

This article is copyrighted by The International Technology Group (ITG). It may not be reproduced in whole or in part and may not be posted on other websites, without the express written permission of the author who may be contacted via email at info-itg@pacbell.net.

About Decision Technology, Inc. Decision Technology is a business intelligence vendor that is the ideal solution for organizations with limited IT resources, and whose data are confined in disparate databases or operational systems. Since 1985, Decision Technology has provided organizations with intuitive, information retrieval software for decision support applications. Its newest business intelligence software product, DecisionCentric, provides Enterprise Information Integration with query and reporting tools optimized for small and medium size organizations. It enables users to integrate, publish and analyze enterprise data across disparate data sources - without expensive ETL technology.

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Visibility Corporation Business Intelligence Provides Rapid ROI

Business Intelligence Software Articles : Visibility Corporation Business Intelligence Provides Rapid ROI by Thomas Cutler

Delivering Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions is Visibility Corporation's proven methodology. The approach to implementing BI is designed to provide quick wins and a fast return-on-investment.

Engineer-to-order manufacturers "hit the ground running" with these BI solutions by: * Identifying critical unfulfilled business information needs * Installing package Data Marts to aggregate and unlock information * Extracting and transforming data from existing corporate systems * Delivering reports, key performance metrics and ad hoc query tools to understand and us the information.

Reporting and Analytics in Visibility Business Intelligence products have standard Business Intelligence cubes for Projects, GL, AP, AR, Sales, Inventory, IT Help Desk, Labor and Purchasing.

Specific reporting functionality includes web-based report design including:

* Point and Click Query Builder * Advanced mode, SQL editor * Multiple database queries * Independent Report Header, Footer, Body Queries for maximum flexibility and efficiency * Unlimited independent sub-reports * Formatting by Rob and/or Column * Alternate Row formatting

Visibility Corporation (www.visibility.com) is a leading developer and supplier of business software solutions designed for the unique needs of project-based, engineer-to-order and to-order manufacturers. Visibility's Enterprise Application solutions help midsize manufacturers of complex products operate their businesses effectively.

VISIBILITY.net is an integrated ERP solution and more. Offering unparalleled functionality and integrated workflow, this browser-based solution cost effectively delivers the power of .NET-based Web services for use with either a Microsoft SQL Server™ or Oracle® database. Conducting business any place, any time, any where is a reality, deployable with unprecedented flexibility.

Visibility Corporation Jaclyn Aldrich 978-694-8132 aldrich@visibility.com

Source: http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=142598

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