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BI Essentials that Deliver Immediate Value to your Business Applications

by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
August 31, 2006

Every few months, LogiXML brings usable, world-class features to the business intelligence (BI) market to keep our products on top of current user needs. These features are usually based on the great ideas and suggestions of our growing user base. Therefore, we know that the features are relevant and beneficial. We are not trying to emulate what other BI vendors offer—we are committed to delivering innovative features that users will actually use and will love to use.

BI, reporting and analysis features make your business applications more intelligent, more robust, more usable and ultimately more valuable to you and your end users.

Companies have invested significant resources in applications for customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce, among others, which collect vast amounts of data.

Today, these same companies are realizing that no matter how robust their application feature sets are, without a robust BI and reporting mechanism to make use of the collected data, these applications are ultimately coming up short in their effectiveness. They do not provide actionable information to end users nor can they give a global understanding among all the organization’s information from the various databases for accounting, CRM, and so on.

BI and reporting products take the facts (all the data from the organization’s various applications, databases, and so on) and deliver reports and analysis power that give personnel the complete picture with the tools to understand the state of their business. They help organizations make better decisions and to plan better overall.

Traditionally, reporting is deemed to be a necessary component in most business applications. However, reporting makes up only about five to ten percent of the resulting application and total development effort, if that. A typical business application is primarily focused on data entry and data transactions. As would be expected, reporting and more advanced interactive and analytical tools, take a back seat to the particular business problem the application is solving, which consumes the application development effort and resources.

A new paradigm in application development is coming into focus. Necessarily, business applications are evolving to focus more on business intelligence; and, users now expect the convenience of Web-based availability. With various complex applications for customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), e-commerce, among many others, today’s organizations create more data than ever before. And, end users want to access these
applications over the Web.


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