Business Intelligence Features

This archive includes topics related to Business Intelligence (BI) features in general as well as LogiXML reporting and BI features.

Articles

Using Heat Maps for at-a-glance Visualization & Analysis of Complex, High Volume Information
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
November 6, 2006

In today’s fast-paced environments, scanning through rows of data can be rather time-consuming and impractical. Users may need to start with the big picture and further explore the details as needed. Or, they may need to spot exceptions and identify emerging trends to take immediate, appropriate action. Tree and heat maps are useful for giving business users quick views of large amounts of data to find trends and anomalies at-a-glance. Read More...

Excel-based Reporting
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
October 26 , 2006

Many business users do not really think about the best way to present or build a report. They just know they want to view certain information and are comfortable using tools that they know. Based on unique spreadsheet features, Microsoft Excel is perfect fit for many reports particularly for budgeting and finance. Read More...

Form-based Reporting via the Web
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
October 18, 2006

In addition to fully interactive and dynamic reports, today’s organizations still need to automate and deliver highly formatted reports like invoices, bank statements, sales orders, purchase orders, employment applications, health care forms, tax forms, and so on, on a regular basis. Read More...

Real-time, Quick Reference Information in Personalized, Role-based Dashboards
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
October 2, 2006

Dashboards have become a standard requirement of corporate users’ BI initiatives. This is due to the ease of use, and the convenient, fast access to critical data that they provide. Interactive dashboards let executives, managers and analysts monitor, measure and share key performance metrics instantly and view the information most pertinent to their roles. Read More...

BI Essentials that Deliver Immediate Value to your Business Applications
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
August 31, 2006

In addition to typical reporting capabilities, LogiXML offers powerful BI features like dashboards and scorecards, interactive analysis, structured search, heat maps, ad hoc reporting, OLAP reporting, animated charts, and MS Excel-based reporting to help you enhance your application offerings. Your applications can take advantage of rich business intelligence features quickly; and, reporting doesn’t have to be just an afterthought in your application development cycle any longer. Read More...

How LogiXML BI Products and Features Help Application Developers, ISVs and SaaS Providers
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
August 28, 2006

Building BI components from scratch is not a practical option for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), SaaS Providers and other application developers; and, it can be risky. With LogiXML’s features, your application developers get ahead of the traditional development cycle; your applications offer more features with less time to market and are more attractive to your customers; and, your customers and end users get more value from their data once they are in production. This article describes the far-reaching value that LogiXML’s BI Reporting and Analysis features can quickly bring to your business applications. Read More...

Ad Hoc Reporting: Self-service, Personalized Reporting for any Business Users
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
August 18, 2006

Sometimes business personnel want to build their own reports. In many cases, users know their own data and know what type of information they want to search for. Read More...

Interactive Analysis and Structured Search with LogiXML's Analysis Grid
by LogiXML BIz Comm Editorial Staff
August 1, 2006

LogiXML gives you the power to embed important search and query views in your applications that are easy for your developers to implement and easy for your users to interact with. LogiXML’s unique, interactive Analysis Grid, which is part of the reporting product Logi Info, allows a developer to quickly create a grid of data for the casual business user to query and analyze as needed. Read More...