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Platform Overview
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The IBIS BI Platform is an enterprise-class Business Intelligence (BI) platform that supports IBIS end-user reporting, analysis, and dashboard capabilities with back-end security, integration, scheduling, and workflow capabilities.
Capabilities and Benefits include:
- Broad platform support based on Java standards
- Management and distribution of reports, analysis, and dashboards on an open source platform
- Easy integration with data sources, portals, and applications using open standards.
- Integrated scheduling and authentication
- Embedded workflow to allow for intelligence BI processes, and integration with external business processes
- Extensive customization capabilities using APIs, web services, or modification of templates, business rules, or even source code
- Integrated audit logging to track user activity, performance, and content access
- Improved data accuracy and integrity.
- Improved sharing of information and collaboration.
- Workflow-based processes enable you to implement unique business logic for a sustained competitive advantage.
Comprehensive BI capabilities
The IBIS BI Platform supports, integrates, and enables IBIS full spectrum of end user capabilities, including:
Reporting All organizations use reporting in one form or another. As a result, reporting is considered a core Business Intelligence (BI) need and is frequently the first BI application deployed. IBIS Reporting allows organizations to easily access, format, and distribute information to employees, customers, and partners.
- Flexible deployment from standalone desktop reporting, to interactive web-based reporting to enterprise business intelligence – with a free open source alternative at every step
- Broad data source support including relational, OLAP, or XML-based data sources
- Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
- Wizard-driven report design for fast, easy report creation
- Professional Edition available with additional deployment capabilities including clustering, subscriptions, directory integration, versioning, auditing, and more
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Analysis
IBIS Analysis puts rich, analytic power in the hands of your knowledge workers – helping them to operate with maximum effectiveness by gaining the insights and understanding they need to make optimal decisions. For example, if a report shows sales are trending lower than expected, knowledge workers need to be able to easily uncover the underlying issue by getting answers to questions such as:
- Is the problem with one product line, or certain regions?
- What’s different about that combination versus other combinations that don’t have problems?
- Flexible output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text Format, or plain text
- Is there a related problem with sales headcount? Marketing campaigns? Or something else?
IBIS Analysis helps answer these kinds of business questions by:
- Making it easy for knowledge workers to freely explore business information by dragging, dropping, drilling into, and cross-tabulating data
- Providing speed-of-thought response times to complex analytical queries
- Offering advanced capabilities - such as integrated reporting, metadata, or dashboards through integration with other products in the APD BI Suite
Dashboards
IBIS Dashboards provide immediate insight into individual, departmental, or enterprise performance. By delivering key metrics in an attractive and intuitive visual interface, IBIS dashboards gives business users the critical information they need to understand and improve organizational performance.
IBIS Dashboards delivers this visibility by providing:
- Comprehensive metrics management capabilities which allow for the definition and tracking of critical metrics at the individual, department, or enterprise level
- Rich, interactive visual displays so that business users can immediately see which business metrics are on track, and which need attention
- Integration with IBIS Reporting and IBIS Analysis so that users can drill to underlying reports and analysis to understand what factors are contributing to good or bad performance
- Portal integration to make it easy to deliver relevant business metrics to large numbers of users, seamlessly integrated into their application
- Integrated alerting to continuously monitor for exceptions and notify users to take action
Data Mining
- Uncovers hidden relationships in your data which can be used to optimize business processes and predict future results.
- Provides a full range of advanced data mining algorithms.
- Enables results to be displayed to users in an easy-to-understand format.
Workflow
- Streamlines and automates business processes so they happen more efficiently, with guaranteed results, and can be reported on for compliance purposes.
- Directly links business performance metrics to the processes that drive them. Promotes a continuous cycle of business performance improvement – from reporting of metrics, through business change, to reporting on the results of that change, and repeating the process to optimize further.
Flexible deployment
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Components for Developers
- Components used in our out-of-the-box products are also provided individually with Web Services interfaces - enabling Java developers to create custom applications or embed BI functionality in other applications.
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Out-of-the-box Products
- Ready-to-deploy applications for reporting, analysis, dashboards, data mining, and workflow.
- Can be used together or stand-alone – enabling you to start with reporting or analysis and add additional capabilities as you grow your deployment.
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Complete BI Framework
- All capabilities integrate into a comprehensive BI Framework with a centralized repository, security and other platform-wide features.
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Technology Highlights
Designed for enterprise-scale deployments with features including application scalability by running on J2EE-compliant application servers.
Web Services Centric - all components provided with a Web Service interface.
XML definitions for all content to enable creation and modification by means other than the graphical user interfaces provided – for example, manually or programmatically editing the XML.
Centralized repositories provide server-based storage and management of the definitions of dashboards, reports, templates, queries, and other content.
Graphical administration and design tools are integrated as part of the Pentaho Workbench, which is delivered inside Eclipse.
Security and compliance features include role-based security, business rules, and logging. Also supports Java Single Sign-On/JOSSO and LDAP to integrate with existing enterprise security.
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