Announcing Version 8.2 of Web-based Logi 8 Business Intelligence Platform
 LogiXML continues to deliver exciting interactive reporting and analysis features across the Logi product lines, giving customers even more power to improve timely decision-making. Highlights include:
• Logi Intelligence Server for enterprise search and historical data analysis
• Internationalization of Logi Ad Hoc, serving users in new languages
• Logi Web Studio, Web-based report editor
• Text Clouds for enhanced visualization
Further expanding LogiXML's role as the leader of Web-based Business Intelligence, the new release of Logi 8 is the first BI solution to offer powerful, Web-based search capabilities right in your reports. Part of the new Logi Intelligence server, this search capability makes BI easier for more users across the enterprise. The new Logi Intelligence Server also includes a unique historical data capture capability that easily integrates with Logi Info to help you create valuable trend reports.
Also in this release, LogiXML offers many enhancements to improve report usability and flexibility with Web 2.0-style features, such as text clouds and tabbed reports. Further expanding the global reach of reporting and analysis capabilities for end users, this release introduces full internationalization support for Logi Ad Hoc. If that were not enough, Logi 8 also includes a great new feature to increase report developer productivity: Logi Web Studio. Now, developers can have on-the-go access to reports with a zero-footprint, lightweight, Web-based report editor that works in any standard Web browser.
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 LogiXML continues to innovate the way you do BI by making advanced analysis capabilities easy and Web-based. This release of Logi Mart will include our Logi Intelligence Server, which is an advanced analysis component that is easy to setup and maintain and offers valuable enterprise search and historical analysis capabilities. In the Logi 8 platform, Logi Intelligence Server seamlessly integrates with Logi Info for you to build reports that fully take advantage of these valuable new features.
Recognizing that organizations need to analyze and report on both current and historical data, LogiXML has developed a powerful historical data capture capability in the Logi Intelligence Server. Logi Intelligence Server offers a unique ‘time machine’ element that lets you easily capture a snapshot of data on a scheduled basis and then archive and compare that data over time. Once the new time machine data layer has been established it can be easily integrated into any report in Logi Info. You can easily create trend reports to analyze that data and be notified of any exceptions.
Logi Intelligence Server allows you to archive critical data over a period of time, compare historical data and calculations, enable automated alerts or processes for exceptions in historical data, and create important trend reports, for example, to explore whether product sales are trending up or down in the last week or month by geographical region.
Easily create reports to see critical trends in your business over time
LogiXML is excited to announce that the Logi Intelligence Server makes stored data searchable and gives you the tools to easily add free-text search capabilities to your organization’s reports. Search capabilities in BI solutions help to extend easy information access to a broader user base across the organization. Search makes it easy for end users to find information most relevant to their needs in a dynamic, free-style and casual way, just like they have become used to in their browsers.
Easily search your report data with free-text searches
The new search capability fully conforms to the Logi security model. Server administrators maintain control over data connections and security, easily defining the data tables that are searchable for users. They can define how to display the results and further limit which data columns are searchable and which get shown to the user. The search input can come from any user-input type element; for instance, it can be hard-coded (i.e., users select search terms from a drop-down menu) or can allow free text input. The search input can also come from another report or Web application.
A specialized data repository for reporting and analysis, Logi Mart continues to offer powerful caching and pre-calculation features to help you serve faster report results. Enhancements to Logi Mart include new and improved action logs and a more refined data mart table definition structure. Instead of a single, lengthy data mart definition that defines your data mart tables, Logi Mart now offers a global settings definition with multiple associated table definitions. Read more here about other valuable Logi 8 updates.
 LogiXML's BI, reporting and analysis software is now being used in more than 77 countries. To meet the needs of our increasingly global customers, we realize software tools need to cater to a diverse, international audience. To extend the global reach of ad hoc reporting and analysis capabilities, the latest release of Logi Ad Hoc can now be offered in other languages, making it even more useful to our global customers and partners. The Logi Ad Hoc user interface (UI) is now fully internationalized; UI text, buttons, and so on, can be easily and readily translated to other languages using resource files external to the source code.
Logi Ad Hoc in Italian
Logi Ad Hoc has also become even easier to use in version 8.2. Based on customer feedback, a number of enhancements make it easier for end users to walk through the steps of building reports. Menus have been expanded to provide one-click access to functionality, and more embedded help is available. Also, enterprise Logi customers who import reports they create with Logi Info into Logi Ad Hoc now have access to a convenient Web-based report definition editor. Read more here about the other valuable Logi Ad Hoc updates.
One of the most exciting updates in Version 8.2 of Logi Info is the New Logi Web Studio, which offers increased mobility and developer productivity in editing reports. This convenient, Web-based report definition editor is accessible in any standard Web browser for developers to make changes to reports anytime, anywhere. This tool is zero-footprint and offers greater flexibility for report maintenance and for using non-Windows platforms like Linux/UNIX and Apple Macintosh. Logi Web Studio is not a separately licensed product but is included with Logi Info.
This release extends Web 2.0-style visualization features to reports with Text Clouds. You’ve seen them on various news or blogging sites; now you can include Text Clouds right in your reporting and analysis applications. A Text Cloud is a visual depiction of the weighting of words, links, and phrases. The relative font sizes and colors of words or phrases within the Text Cloud indicate their weighting, frequency or other numeric value. With the words or phrases easily setup as links, you can enable further drill down into detailed data. You have full control over the color and font selections used in this unique-to-Logi 8 feature.
Enable drill-down into detailed data from weighted words in new Web 2.0-style Text Clouds
A new Tabs element is also available to let you easily include multiple reports like tables and charts in a single Web page. Multiple tabs appear in the users’ Web page so they can easily ‘tab’ through each report without having to scroll or navigate through various menus.
Easily tab through multiple reports with the new Tabs element
Read more here about other valuable Logi Info updates.
Logi Reporting Center, the Web-based report management tool by LogiXML, also includes the new Logi Web Studio for enhanced report developer productivity.
And, continuing LogiXML’s commitment to customer requests, Logi OLAP Reporting includes the ability to display OLAP member properties for easily viewing and identifying the details/properties of individual members in your OLAP cubes.
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