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Slide 1: Enterprise Mashups Does Business Intelligence p p g
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Slide 2: Don’t leave your team without the power to make decisions
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Traditional business intelligence tools typically only serve 15% of the Traditional business intelligence to edit Master subtitle style of the serve l Click Cli k tools typically onlyb i l 15% di enterprise population requiring insights to make better decisions Many Enterprise BI software suites focus on answering questions that are already well understood. Learning lessons from previous deployments suggest the future of business intelligence lies in nimble tools that extend collaborative workspaces with ‘instant insight’
Slide 3: Gartner key trends in business intelligence (2009)
1. By 2012, business units ‐‐ not technology departments ‐‐ will be held responsible for more than 40 percent of the total budget for BI projects. “While technology departments might be making decisions about what technology technology departments might be making decisions about what technology products to run, business units will be the ones deciding what to do with those tools once they're in the enterprise.” 2. Through 2012, more than 35 percent of the top 5,000 global companies will 2 Through 2012 more than 35 percent of the top 5 000 global companies will make uninformed decisions due to underinvestment in information infrastructure and business‐user tools. “The recession forces an enterprise to stay aware of dramatic changes in its business and to rethink strategic and y g g Click Cli k to edit Master subtitle style di bil l operating plans.” 3. By 2010, 20 percent of organizations will have an industry‐specific analytic application delivered through software‐as‐a‐service (SaaS). “As SaaS continues to permeate the enterprise, Gartner estimates it will increasingly appear within enterprise BI portfolios.”
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Source: “Greater Business Value," is a collaborative effort by nine Gartner analysts specializing in BI, and pulls no punches in terms of the fate awaiting many companies: "The economic crisis will reveal which enterprises have a sound information infrastructure and which do not," the authors write.
Slide 4: Business Intelligence that answers what you don’t know
Encanvas is really agile business intelligence technology that serves the majority of decision makers at the majority of decision makers at all levels of the organization
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Encanvas’s agile data mashup g p architecture makes it best placed Performance dashboards to help decision makers make Activity management sense of what they don’t already y y Click Cli k to edit Master subtitle style di bil l know ...and it’s built to deploy as Microsoft® ASP.NET Mi ft® ASP NET
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Performance reporting, charts, drill Performance reporting charts drill downs, location intelligence Notifications and alerts
Slide 5: Encanvas Business Intelligence ‐ Features
Deployment models
On premises: : (Microsoft On premises: : (Microsoft® ASP.NET deployed via Microsoft® IIS) Requires server equipped with Microsoft® Windows Small Business Server 2003 through to Server 2003 through to Windows Server 2008, Microsoft® SQL Server or Microsoft® SQL Server Express, Microsoft® IIS (not supplied). supplied) Web Hosted: Accessible via almost any browser with no downloads
Capabilities
Performance scorecards Dashboards Charts and graphs Drill‐downs
Integration
SQL Server™ (and OLAP) Q ( ) Oracle Kerridge Spreadsheets ODBC
Unique characteristics
Rollback™ technology ensures gy perpetual version control 4‐tier inclusive security model; protecting systems, data, identity management and rights management Scalable – produce a near unlimited number of enterprise portal and mobile applications without creating a burden to IT without creating a burden to IT
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Traffic lights / bars Email event notifications Time‐lining / GANT* XML / WSDL Geo‐spatial intelligence
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Microsoft® Project
Custom dynamic visualizations Formatted PDF report printing Electronic report distribution
Avoid security breaches or accounting errors by removing ‘shadow systems’ ‐ provide users with the insights they need with the insights they need through data secure IT systems Information Flow Designer software automated upload events, notifications etc.
*Due for release January 2010 Specifications subject to change without notice.
Slide 6: How it works
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Create a collaborative ‘secure & live’ workspace
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Find answers to new questions
Slide 7: Business Intelligence across the enterprise
Business intelligence i i lli mashups that federate disparate data
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Executive alerts and scorecard dashboards
Online access to business activity analytics from anywhere
Collaborative business intelligence integrated into the Social Office
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Agile BI portals that change as fast as your business environment
Geo‐spatial intelligence applications
Slide 8: Benefits of Encanvas BI
Cut Costs • Kill activities that do not contribute to targeted priorities
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Determine financial risk and exposure • Analyze premiums, claims, profitability and risk by yp p y y customer, type of damage, product and country, giving underwriters the visibility to make better informed decisions faster.
Maintain profit margins • Track rising operating costs such as transportation, commodities etc. and their impact on profit margins commodities etc. and their impact on profit margins
Slide 9: Benefits of Encanvas BI
Lower purchasing costs • Reduce contract spend through greater visibility Move goods faster • (Retail) Reduce inventory by pinpointing slower selling items for faster markdowns and replenish g p inventory immediately in stores • Lower inventory costs and optimize production by adapting to rapid changes in demand with more Click to edit Master subtitle style Cli flexible production and order flows. k di bil l Making better decisions • Make sense of information across the enterprise p • Plan activities and campaigns more effectively • Interpret performance of partnerships
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Slide 10: A new line‐up of Encanvas BI applications for 2010
Activity Management
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Collaborative Intelligence Geo‐spatial Intelligence
Mobile BI Applications
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Slide 11: So why consider Encanvas BI?
Affordability and value for money Agile, collaborative business intelligence that stays one step ahead of Agile, collaborative business intelligence that stays one step ahead of your information needs 3. Understand what you don’t already know 4. Give decision makers at all levels the insights they need 5. Unequalled 4‐tier inclusive security model 6. Access from anywhere 24/7 –edit Master subtitle style d 6A f h Cli k to portal or mobile with no downloads 24/7 di l bili l i hl ld Click b 7. Microsoft® compliant deployment 8. Integrated data mashups access data from across the enterprise 8 Integrated data mashups access data from across the enterprise 9. Automate data feeds and marts with Information Flow Designer 10. Unique Rollback™ technology provides perpetual version control q gy p pp 1. 2.
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Slide 12: More information
Encanvas Ltd 4 Oxford Court St James Road Brackley NN13 7XY United Kingdom
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tel. +44 (0) 1280 700535 t Click Cli k to edit Master subtitle style di l 44 (0) 1280 700535 l bil email. info@encanvas.com web. www.encanvas.com