1. Interactive Reporting Charles Fox, VP of Interactive Reporting Asia Pacific June 2008

2. Existing Business Issues  Today  Lack of visibility into real-time corporate performance  Problem  Dependence on IT to develop customised reports for analytics  Information is outdated and ‘flat’ vs. real-time and ‘interactive’  Solution  Single Interactive User Interface for Analysing Data

3. Reporting Systems Output Documents: Invoices, Purchase Orders, Checks, Receipts. Analysis: Sales, Purchasing, Productivity, Inventory. Internal Reports: Listings, Audit Trails, Transaction Logs. Attributes: Fixed, known formats, infrequent variations, multiple fonts & logos. Dynamic, ad-hoc, drill-down, customisable, requirements are user specific. Fixed formats, minor variations.

4. Form Reports

5. Systematic Reports

6. Most ERP’s do great  Form Reports  Sales Invoices, Purchase Orders…  Systematic Reports  Ageing, Lists…

7. Traditional Analytical Reports A Perfectly Good Report? Fixed Period Fixed Grouping No drill-down Fixed Totals Fixed Sorting Traditional Reporting Systems are inadequate for analysing your data.

8. Cost vs. Benefits  Many BI tools have Analytics  Cost to Implement and Develop vary  Some tools – Extensive training and development  Man months to specify and develop  Building Cubes or Datamarts is very expensive  Long Return on Investment  Inflexible – not nimble Only cost justifiable / viable for large static Analytical needs

9. What about Ancillary Systems?  Many clients have ancillary systems  Scheduling, Tracking, Operational…  Many systems = Many Databases = Often Unique  Complex Cubes / Datamarts not cost justifiable

10. So we have a problem  These important systems operate without decision support  “It’s not measured and so it’s not managed” Vital line of business systems without proper Business Intelligence

11. The Solution Buy a Reporting Tool!

12. Sample of Complexity

13. Essence of Simplicity SAP PeopleSoft Sage MFG Pro SQL Server Oracle DB2 Mapping Transformation Sales Template Purchasing Template Inventory Template Productivity Template … Template Library Sales Reports Purchasing Reports Inventory Reports Productivity Reports … Report Output

14. Interactive Reporting Benefits  Pre-built templates to simplify implementation  Sales, Services, Jobs, Purchasing, Inventory, Time Billing  Simple Mapping : Template to Data  Fast implementation – days, not weeks or months  Nimble development  Web-based – no client install  Database and Vendor Independent

15. Benefits Continued…  Faster ROI with faster implementation  Changes in Strategy and KPI  Quickly change your Analytical Views  Low Cost Implementation  Across the board affordability  Graphics and Interactivity  Dashboard and Analytics in one product

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17. Sales Performance Example KPI Salesperson profit margin must be > 25% Below KPI

18. Switch from Graph to Table Drill through Overall 22.03% margin It’s below 25%

19. Drill-down to Customer Drill through Negative margin

20. Drill to Item Sale Drill through Sold below cost!

21. Drill to Invoice Actual Invoice Analysis Tools Allow Discovery. This helps determine what action to take.

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