Business Intelligence + Enterprise Reporting

The Hurwitz Group: BI is an imperative for ebusiness. Gartner Group: by 2002, business management in 50% of large enterprises will identify BI as a strategic initiative, forging an alignment of goals, objectives, and resources to better support the enterprise with insight (0.7 probability).
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Business Intelligence + Enterprise Reporting

Introduction to B*Smart
B*Smart Intelligent Solutions, Inc is a sales, consulting, and integration company providing Performance Management for the entire enterprise using world-class software from Business Objects. Mission
Provide a blend of business intelligence and enterprise reporting features for Analytical Reporting using powerful and secure capabilities to access and analyze information REGARDLESS of the data source across the enterprise. Provide enterprise management and end-users the ability to fully track, understand, and manage the performance of the entire enterprise. Information Democracy users do their own reports and IT manages security and architecture/configuration of business intelligence information backbone. 1997 - Services only channel of Software Works, an ERP implementation/services company 1999 - Silver Alliance partner with Business Objects 2000 - Partnered with several ERP vendors named as their BI Solutions Provider 2002 - Software Works BI Channel split as B*Smart Intelligence Solutions

History

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Business Intelligence + Enterprise Reporting

Presentation Agenda
BI and Analytical Reporting for IFS Application Users and Enterprise Managers
Introduction to B*Smart Mission History Key to BI Success: QuickStart Package for IFS Built by IFS Application implementation experts Used right-out-of-the-box Demo IFS QBI Package with Designer!!! Empower Users __ Users get their own data in the presentation format of their choice Portal to Intelligence: User-Personalized Portal for Dashboards, Queries, Reports and 3rd party applications Empower Users - give users the worlds easiest tool for generating and formatting ad-hoc queries/reports Allied with a Leading BI visionary and delivery company _ B*Smart BI Solution is Powered by Business Objects B*Smart and Business Objects provide a huge array of BI functionality today and even more in the future In Good Company Where to Start? Start your BI implementation with your IFS ERP Solution and access other enterprise data sources Then ask

LETS DO A DEMO
Discussion: Wheres your pain ???
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Key to BI Success: Our QuickStart BI Package!

Our QBI package is built leveraging the world-class technology of Business Objects, a company solely focused on BI who is consistently ranked by most as the worlds best. Powered by Business Objects! Our QuickStart BI (QBI) package for IFS includes (but is not limited too) a semantic layer called universes that exposes database items that are easily recognized by end-users to drag/drop onto a query panel, on-site end-user training using your own corporate data, administration training for security and universe changes. Our QBI package for IFS is built by IFS implementation experts who know your application and Business Intelligence, blended to deliver the best. Our QBI package is used right out-of-the-box and significantly shortens the implementation and training requirements - providing an excellent ROI. (Thats how we can demo on-site using your own IFS data. Want to query, report and/or analyze your own data, ask our IFS/BI consultant during the demo). Our QBI package is founded on a metadata definition layer we call the semantic layer that defines the architecture and relationships of your IFS data. This layer is used as the central knowledge repository for this data and is automatically updated when your IFS or any enterprise data source changes. Our QBI package significantly lowers the total cost of ownership (TOC) because it is a solution that can be deployed for most all enterprise data sources, even integrating data at reporting time. Our QBI packaging technique and results have been reviewed by Business Objects consulting services and approved by their senior consulting service engineers.

Our QBI package extends the information provided by IFS in many ways such as GL financial reports that provide drill-down capabilities to the individual transactions themselves.

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Our Philosophy - Empower Users

Put BI/ER in USERs hands to do their own!
Empower end users with access to information easily creating reports and dashboards. Add key performance indicators and business exceptions to take immediate action.

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Empower Users with the Worlds Leading Ad-Hoc Query tool!

Industrys easiest query interface Works against business representation of data All query components available in one window
Available Information Section Breaks

Chosen Format Conditions

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Ally with the worlds leading BI company

Leaders in Business Intelligence

The Recognized Leader in Business Intelligence
Source: Gartner/ March 2002

#1 in End User Query and Reporting 3 years running

Source: IDC Information Access Tools/Survey, July 2002

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In Good Company
80% of the fortune 1000 are customers

14,000 customers in 80 world countries

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Whats Next: Start your BI implementation with your ERP, but business decisions effect entire enterprises, they dont fit into application stovepipes! Characteristics of todays business analysis:
Multiple linked questions Data sources for each question vary In almost every company data is scattered across diverse systems

Sales Analytics
What caused sales to drop?

A,B List Generation

Who are these customers?

A: Siebel

Customer Analytics
Which customers are buying less? And of what?

A, B C

B,C

B: ERP C: CRM

Campaign Analytics

Choose an enterprise BI Platform

Whats the best way to target former buyers of these products?

Product Analytics
Which products are they buying less of?

A,B Deliver Analytics

Is this the cause of inventory surplus?

A,B,C D

D: Home Grown

B,D
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Then ask, Where is your business going?

Ask your enterprise Wheres your pain?
Sales and marketing management Which products drive the most revenue and whats their percentage contribution to overall revenue?
Operations management Which buyers are slow payers? Who are the worst 10? Finance Which dept. has the highest travel costs per head? Human resources What factors govern employee retention? Manufacturing Which suppliers products have most quality issues?

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Business Intelligence + Enterprise Reporting

Todays Demo Agenda
Business Intelligence and Analytical Reporting for IFS Application Users and Enterprise Managers
End User Reporting IFS Package Designer End users empowered to create their own queries/reports End users presentation their way with breaks, sorts, rankings, charts and more End User Analysis End user evaluations from varying dimensions (slice/dice) End user evaluations from varying altitudes: far away to up-close) Transparent data-cubes for local analysis Sales Reporting for IFS (additional functionality areas as time permits) Financial Reporting for IFS Income Statement examples (drill-downs to GL details) Dept Expense Examples Business Performance versus Enterprise PO Form Dashboards

Future Demo Agenda

User defined business conditions for alerts and notifications

Portals/Dashboards
Adding value for customers, vendors, partners with your data Creating queries/reports from multiple enterprise data sources (budget vs actual)
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