Panorama Business Intelligence Solution

A Complete BI Solution for

Your Microsoft Platform

A few words about Panorama Software

1995 - Panorama’s first BI solution was created

1996 - BI technology sold to Microsoft,  basis for Analysis Services & MDX

2003 - Redefine how Users Explore Data

2007 - Introduce the New ‘Dashboard’ in Office – ‘Spotlight’

2010 – Panorama makes PowerPivot ‘Enterprise Ready’

2009 – NovaView 6 brings together the best of SQL, Office and SharePoint

15 Years of Unbeatable Innovation

2006 - Partner with SAP, Advise on MDX

Panorama has recently been awarded silver in the

Best Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool

category by SQL Server magazine

A Strategic Microsoft Partner

“As far as third-party tools go Panorama is still the #1 vendor…”

*BI Survey 8 – review by Chris Webb: http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!7B84B0F2C239489A!4405.entry

BI Survey 8

BI Survey 8Business Benefit Index (BBI) by Product

#1

Panorama scores the highest compared to all other BI products when it comes to the business Benefits which the end users gets from the product – most value for your investment.

Source: http://www.isreport.de/index.php?id=993 Featuring: The OLAP survey 8 by Nigel Pendse

Financial Services Manufacturing Healthcare Retail & Distribution Telecom, Media & Entertainment

Over 1,500 customers worldwide

Value Proposition • Simple, self-service BI for the Information Worker• More power to the Analyst and the power user• Easy solution to deploy and maintain for the IT• Improved collaboration & team productivity

…on top of any data source

Top 3 challenges inBusiness Intelligence

today

Challenge #1: Business users still don’t use BI tools for data analysis

So when they need data insights, they go to IT

Which causes a lot of frustration for IT &

Business Users

This is why we designed & developed

Self-Service BI tools for End Users

BI for Business Users

– Interactive analysis

– Animated, self-discoverable features

– Zero training

– Fully integrated into the NovaView

Dashboard and SharePoint

NovaView Flash Analytics

The most user friendly, self-service analytical client available today

• Creates, formats and distributes high quality reports in one click

• Enables full integration with user data

–Supports all analytical capabilities within the report

–“Slice and dice” and search capabilities

–‘In Cell’ visualization, Bands

• “One-click” conversion to Excel and PDF

BI for End UsersNovaView Smart Reporting

One environment for analysis & reporting

BI for End UsersNovaView Dashboards

• Translate data into synchronized, visually rich graphical elements which show multiple results together

• Guided analysis for an intuitive user experience

• Self-Service Dashboards with personalized look and feel

• Open for 3rd party components

At a glance view of multiple results together

BI for End UsersNovaView Spotlight

• Deliver live, interactive insights to users in a simple and intuitive way

• Put insights where people work, in the most popular desktop applications

• From Insight to Analysis in one click

A personal dashboard inside MS Outlook

–Maintain direct interaction with data (“drill-down” and “slice and dice” capabilities)

–“One-click” charting and graphic tools provide users options for quickly modifying data

–Tree Maps (Heat Maps) for examining hierarchical data and finding correlation between two measures

• Sophisticated visual presentations of data analysis:

BI for End UsersNovaView Visuals

And if you need to collaborate with suppliers, partners & customers…

SharedViewsCollaboration Outside the Firewall

Challenge #2

Quick access to ALL data

Users are limited to pre-modeled data for analysis

Oracle SAP Microsoft

Data resides in different places

Databases Excel Applications Web Services

Panorama Universal Data ConnectorConnect to Any Data Source

Universal Data Connector (UDC)• Automatically transform dull data into

interactive and live insights

• Instantly connect to any data source with no IT involvement (Self-Service)

• Use the same familiar and powerful set of tools

• Completely web-based

• Leverage the Analysis Service (SSAS) power – stronger semantics and the power of multi-dimensional modeling

• Benefit from the unified platform, management and security

Panorama NovaView 6.2 Architecture

NovaView Server- Business Logic- Unified Data Security Model

Analysis Services Universal Data Connector

and / or

MS SQL

SAP Oracle Flat Files Applications Web Services

PowerPivot

and / or

Source, operational

raw data

Modeling, aggregations,

semantics

Intelligence Layer

End User Client

Smart Reporting

MS Office Clients

SpotlightDashboardsAnalytics

Complete BI Suite For All of Your Data Sources (Relational, OLAP & In-

Memory)

Analytics Reporting Dashboards

KPI’s Visualization(i.e. treemaps)

Office Integration

Challenge #3

While information workers want simple, analysts need more

power

• Real-time web access to the most powerful and intuitive analytical applications

• Identifies, investigates, and analyzes performance, drivers and trends

• Enables users to manipulate data, perform calculations and design complex analysis with intuitive “drag and drop” features

More Power to Your AnalystsNovaView Analytics

The most powerful analytical application

More Power to Your Analysts

• Instant calculated members

• Advanced exception handling

• Sliding filters

• Interactive Charting

• One click interactive reporting

• Geographic visualization

• Large dimension handling

• Sophisticated Ranking & Filtering

• Advanced MDX and DAX tools

• And much more

How we work together with Microsoft

Panorama Extends MS Platform

• The only BI tool specifically designed for the MS Platform

• Provides advanced analytical tools for the power users

• Gives the ability to spread BI to the masses through innovative interface & integration with Office and SharePoint

• Provides innovative ways to create and manage OLAP cubes automatically

• Natively supports MS PowerPivot, in-memory platform, and makes it enterprise ready

Panorama & Microsoft Transform BI as we know it

For the last 14 years, Panorama has been a strategic Microsoft partner and continually adds innovation on top of the Microsoft platform. This new release will bring to market an end-to-end BI solution that combines the best of Microsoft SQL Server, Office Excel 2010 and SharePoint 2010 with Panorama’s NovaView suite, and will ultimately transform the landscape of business intelligence as we know it.

Claude Lorenson, director of SQL Server marketing at Microsoft Corp.

http://www.panorama.com/news/news/archives/2010/first-bi-suite-for-powerpivot.html

Microsoft PowerPivot

The ultimate platform for self-service BI

Why use PowerPivot

• Great for Personal and Team Productivity• Available in Excel 2010• Remarkable platform performance• An Open In-Memory platform

PowerPivot Enterprise-Ready Needs

• Data Security Layer

• Powerful yet Simple Web-based Analytics

• Easy Way to Create Operational Dashboards

• Rich Data Visualizations (i.e. treemaps)

• A Complete End-to-End BI Solution

PowerPivot Enhancement # 1 – Security

Enhance OLAP Security

• NovaView adds a data level security layer

• Each user will only see his portion of the data

• Users can share confidential intelligence

• Make PowerPivot enterprise-ready

Make PowerPivot available for Teams, Departments and Enterprise

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PowerPivot Enhancement # 2

Self-Service BI tools for Business Users

Business User DashboardsEasy way to create operational dashboards

BI for Business UsersNovaView Flash Analytics

The most user friendly, self-service analytical client available today

Intuitive & Interactive BI Suitefor Business Users

Analytics Reporting Dashboards

KPI’s Visualization(i.e. treemaps)

Office Integration

Panorama NovaView is the only BI suite on PowerPivot today

Same User Interface & multi-dimensional capabilities for all data sources (relational, OLAP, in-memory)

Complete Web-Based Experience

• No Installation

• Access from anywhere

• Intuitive & Interactive

Exec. Dashboards MS Office ClientsFlash Analytics Dashboards Smart Reporting

PowerPivot answers your ‘unknown’ questions

Spotlight

NovaView for MS Office 2010

NovaView Server- Business Logic- Unified Data Security Model

Analysis Services answers your ‘known’ questions

No other software, IT involvement or installations are requiredAll done by Business Users

Ultimate Self-Service BI

Connect

• Connect to any model• Create your own

interactive views

Analyze• User-friendly interface• Fully web-based• Same tools for Relational,

multi-dimensional (Analysis Services) and PowerPivot data

Publish & Share• Live in SharePoint• Share instantly and

Securely

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PowerPivot Enhancement # 3 – More BI Functionality for Power Users

Advanced Analytics

• Give more power to the analysts:• Smart exceptions• Instant calculations • Additional data formatting• Fully interactive, with Slice & Dice and Drag & Drop• and much more!

• Optimized for PowerPivot models:• Efficiently handling flat and large dimensions• Innovative ‘Google/Bing-like’ instant data search for faster navigation

of the flat dimensions

Closing the gap to Analysis Services functionality

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Demonstrationhttp://www.panorama.com/products/novaview-demo.html

“Businesses that are looking to extend their existing Microsoft data warehouse and BI solutions or make PowerPivot enterprise-ready should strongly consider NovaView. If you’re in the market for a third-party toolset to add functionality to Microsoft’s BI tools, your search is over.“

Derek Comingore, Microsoft SQL Server MVPhttp://www.sqlmag.com/article/type/Review-Panorama-NovaView-Suite.aspx

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