An enterprise BI solution must satisfy the reporting and analysis needs of everyone in the organization. View sample WebFOCUS reports.
Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) is a broad category of computer software solutions that enables a company or organization to gain insight into its critical operations through reporting applications and analysis tools. BI applications may include a variety of components such as tabular reports, spreadsheets, charts, and dashboards. Although traditional business intelligence systems were delivered via host terminals or paper reports, the typical modern deployment of a BI application is over the Web, via internet or intranet connections. It is also possible to develop interactive BI applications optimized for mobile devices, smart phones, and e-mail.
Well-designed BI applications can give anyone in your company the ability to make better decisions by quickly understanding the various “information assets” in your organization and how these interact with each other. These assets can include customer databases, supply chain information, personnel data, manufacturing, and sales and marketing activity, as well as any other source of information critical to your operation. BI software allows you to integrate these disparate data sources into a single coherent framework for real-time reporting and detailed analysis by anyone in your extended enterprise – customers, partners, employees, managers, and executives.
View sample WebFOCUS reports to see some samples of reports, charts, and dashboards that would satisfy diverse end user requirements.
WebFOCUS – Information Builders’ comprehensive suite of BI software and the industry’s most secure and flexible solution – provides comprehensive BI functionality for many different classes of users, from the corporate executive to the assembly line worker; from the financial analyst sitting at his desk to the sales rep who’s always on the road. WebFOCUS allows organizations to leverage any data source, transform it into useful information, and deliver it in an actionable format to any end user, both within and outside the enterprise.
WebFOCUS reduces the cost and time for development and deployment of BI applications, while providing powerful, scalable, enterprise-wide BI solutions.
WebFOCUS BI software will empower your organization to:
- Process requests quickly, intelligently, and efficiently
- Respond faster and more efficiently to changing conditions affecting your organization
- Make your greatest asset – information – part of your organization’s natural culture
- Transform raw data into intuitive, illustrative enterprise reports quickly and easily
- Enhance reporting systems by incorporating transactional forms, as well as data maintenance and update capabilities
- Deliver usable information to both local and remote workers in the format that works best for them, whether it’s HTML, Microsoft Excel, Adobe PDF, or e-mail.
To find out more about BI, read our white paper “Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail.” In it you’ll see the most common mistakes made in BI deployments and how to avoid them so your BI applications will be as successful and effective as possible.
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