Business Analysis Tool A Powerful Business Intelligence System

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Business Analysis ToolA Powerful Business Intelligence System

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Contents

Information about Our CompanyWhat is a BI-system?Report ModuleAdministrative ModuleArchitecture and Key FeaturesAdvantages of Our Reporting System over Business Rivals


Information about Our Company


Information about Our Company

Our business is:Development of our own BI system and consulting in this area (creation of OLAP/DW/ETL)Custom development of web/windows applications based on .NET platform

Technologies that we use:Microsoft .NETMicrosoft SQL Server, Analysis Services

We do software development and consulting since autumn 2003.

Our website – www.bitimpulse.com

http://www.bitimpulse.com/


What is a BI-system?


Problem

Each company, regardless of its size and scope of activity, has at least a single informational system with a database. This system contains the entire historic information about company activity – sales, orders, shipments, transactions etc.

How is it possible to analyze this data?How to generate reports on this data to make decisions?


Old Model of Reporting Systems

ERP CRM SCM

Direct SQL queries

Client Level

MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, Access,

etc.

Reporting systems of this type are currently unable to meet all requirements.

Such systems create a set of serious problems.

Many companies have reporting made in this way:


Briefly on BI

Data in DB Making DecisionsBI-system

Business Intelligence System (BI-system) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.

+ =A perfect analytical system is:

All company data are stored in the unified format in the same “coordinate system”Reports of long time periods (a month, a year) are quickly generatedUsers are able to customize the reportsEverything works well constantly, without involving IT personnel.

We are doing our best to make our product a perfect analytical system.


Our BI SystemFeatures of our BI-system:

InteractivityStabilityIntegration with Microsoft OfficeFlexible administrationSupport of all version of SQL Server since 2005

Fearures of Analysis Services:Powerful mechanisms of data selectionFlexible algorithms of cube processingPowerful tools for cube and dimension design

Data Warehouse

Integration Services

AnalysisServices

SQL Server

Application Server

Report Module Administrative Module

ERPCRM SCM

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Business Analysis Tool

OLAP ORTABULAR


What is an OLAP cube?

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Cube cells contain measures, for example “quantity of products sold”

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What is a Tabular (BISM)?

You can create a set of related tables which are loaded into server’s RAM. All calculations are done “on-the-fly”. You can use either DAX or MDX guery language.


Customers


Report Module


Report Module

Data analysis features:Pivot tables, charts, treemap, scatter diagram;Searching, filtering, sorting of data;Easy change of report structure;Highlight of data;Viewing of the data source;Offline data analysis;Export to Excel, Word and PDF;Printing reports.


Pivot/ChartYou can:

Drill up/down an elementSelect the desired level of detailingPerform other navigation functionsChange the structure of the report using simple drag&drop operationsHide/Show element

Report Module


Scatter DiagramThe dynamic scatter diagram allows to track 4 measures at once. Each element is drawn as a circle. 2 measures define it’s position, while other 2 measures define it’s color and size.

Report Module


TreemapThe tree-map algorithm is a combination of a diagram and a tree. One measure corresponds to the size while the other corresponds to the color.

Report Module


DashboardDashboard gives a possibility to combine several elements in one report.

The main advantage is a possibility to see all high-level KPIs by different dimensions.

Report Module


DashboardConstructing of dashboard is quite easy: you simply drag and drop the necessary items to its place.

Report Module


DashboardAt this moment the table can display values using different types of markers.

Future versions will contain another ways of displaying data.

Report Module


The “Member Selector” dialog allows to to set the desired set of members. You can not only find the necessary members, but also you may search and filter them.

Member SelectorReport Module


ChartsThere are more than two dozens of chart types. Each chart can be configured with preview.

Report Module


Highlighting of DataWith the help of the gradient and exception highlighting you can analyze a vast amount of data

Report Module


Filtering and SortingYou can set up filtering of rows/columns of a table

Report Module


Change of Report ViewYou can change the following report

parameters:Color of text/backgroundFontNumber formatting (number of digits after point, currency, percentage, regional settings)Text orientation and alignment (vertical/horizontal, right/left/center alignment)

Report Module


Drilling through DetailsFor each position in the report you can see what data is "behind" it

Report Module


Reviewing Data OfflineIt's possible to save the report into NRP-file or to a local cube. There are special programs to view those files:

Просмотрщик NRP файлов Просмотрщик локальных кубов

Report Module


Data ExportThe application

supports export to:Microsoft ExcelMicrosoft WordPDFOpenOffice

Report Module


Scheduler ServiceYou can get the reports by schedule at desired days and time in any format.

Report Module


PrintingYou can set the scale, margins, comments, select the paper size and printing.

You can print in color.

Preview mode is available

The pages are automatically numbered

Report Module


Administrative Module


Administrative Module

Administrative functions:Management by users, roles, reports;Creation of the report templates;Setting of access permissions for the reports and data in the cubesViewing and analyzing of all usage statistics (who has opened what reports, what actions performed, what MDX requests launched)Subscribing users on reports by scheduleE-mail notificationsSSAS roles backups


System Architecture


Architecture

Analysis ServicesThe following MSAS are supported: 2005, 2008,

2008R2, 2012

HTTP + zip compression

IIS

ASP.NET web services

Process Pool of MDX executors.NET remoting

Repository(SQL DB)

BAT Application Server

Scheduler (Windows Service)Works on Windows

2003 - 2012R2

Report Module Administrative Module

OLAPTABULAR


Out GUI application is developed using .NET technology. It communicates with the application server using HTTP protocol. This gives us a set of advantages over zero footprint clients:

1) speed: .NET code works much faster than any javascript

2) visualization: rendering of chars, tables, highlightings etc. looks better when it is a GUI applicatioin if to compare it with DHTML

3) traffic: out .NET code compresses all HTTP traffic using zip compression. The level of compression is at minimum 10 times. With HTML you will never achieve this.

4) resources: we can guarrantee that we’ll free all resources in our .NET code..

5) Stability: our code keeps everything under control. In the case of errors administrators will get a notification with logs about what really happened (what report the user was looking, what button they pressed, etc.) so we can solve the problem in a short period of time.

Architecture


Key Features

One report – different access rights: the same report can be accessible for multiple users, however, each user will see only the data to which they have access. Integration with Active Directory: BAT users and roles can optionally bound to users and groups of AD. This simplifies administration of the system. The reports are not linked directly to the cubes: data access is performed through cube “pointers”. User profiles: each user is assigned a profile by administrator. Dependently on this profile they gain access to certain functions in the report designer. Intellectual application server, which executes user queries and is responsible for correct server load, for timely stopping of command execution, memory allocation, etc. Zip-compression of transferred data from the client to server and vice-versa. Problem tracking subsystem – we start reacting on your problems earlier than you notify us. Client application can work both inside the browser and separately. There is a way of deployment of the client through the AD group policies.


Advantages of Our Reporting System over Business Rivals


Advantages over Rivals

Technical possibilitiesTechnical possibilities of our system are higher than those of the rival systems

PricingOur solution is less expensive than of competitors

Adaptation for your needsIn case if it is necessary to make changes or implement new features for you, we will cope with this for a moderate price and quite quickly. The majority of other BI vendors, on the contrary, will not pay attention to the needs of an individual customer.

SupportWe react to your problems before you are going to notify us. Our rivals have no such support mechanisms.


Contacts

Web-site: www.bitimpulse.com E-mail: [email protected] Phone.: +380-32-2442265Address: 149, Zelena st., Lviv, Ukraine, 79035

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