Business Intelligence
Delivering Actionable Information at the Point of Business
How much more intelligent can you make your business processes? How much more insight can you gain into your business? How much more integrated can your business processes be? How much more interactive can your business be with customers, partners, employees, and managers?
Business intelligence not only helps organizations answer these kinds of questions, it gives organizations the information that employees, managers, partners, and customers need to DO something about it – to take actions that will make business more valuable. It does that by delivering information at any point where people interact with the enterprise – the point of business.
Measuring Business Intelligence Performance: Deployability, Scalability, Usability
How well your business intelligence solution performs determines how well an organization can deploy scalable, usable information systems. In turn, the deployability, scalability, and usability of any business intelligence system determine how low your total cost of ownership will be and also how well your technology investments are protected for future growth, mergers and acquisitions.
- Software built from ground up for the Web
- HTML, Java, XML, and DHTML support
- True thin-client
- Centrally managed reporting environment
- Strong support for mobile and wireless devices
Deployability is the ability to quickly and efficiently get applications up and running in any and all parts of the enterprise and manage the information system efficiently. Efficient deployability requires the following:
- NT, UNIX, AS/400, VAX/VMS, IBM mainframe implementation abilities
- Intelligent middleware architecture
- Support for all enterprise data (relational, legacy, ERP, CRM)
- Non-persistent server connection
- Usage monitoring facilities
- AI-based query governing
- Database-efficient output bursting
- Deferred query facility
- Intelligent paging facility
Scalability is the ability to deploy wide-scale to meet changes in demand for the Internet, wireless, and future technologies. True scalability requires the following:
- Simple to complex queries
- Strong data access/integration
- Formatted reporting and charting
- Financial reporting and analysis
- OLAP functionality
- Analytical applications
- Closed-loop applications (update capabilities)
- Complete application deployment (self-service)
- Automated information distribution
- Bidirectional e-mail robot facility
- Strong integration with Microsoft Office (XML-based) and numerous desktop products
- Support for portals (Plumtree, MS-Outlook, custom)
Usability is the ability to provide applications that are easy to use for diverse groups of people with varying levels of skills and needs. Maximum usability requires the following:
Information Builders WebFOCUS meets all of these requirements and more, reducing the cost and time for development and deployment of applications, while providing powerful, scalable, enterprise-wide business intelligence solutions. It is the only enterprise-scale solution that excels at every process involved in creating and delivering critical information to everyone in your organization.
