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November 8, 2005
User Interfaces
Successful BI deployment requires careful consideration of users access needs, technical skill levels and role in the enterprise. All too often the one-size-fits-all approach to implementation results in failure because of high training and support costs and low adoption and usage. In fact, this cornerstone of BI planning is critical to delivering real business value across the enterprise.
Executives want to be able to quickly assess business conditions, so they can identify issues requiring corrective action and confidently report to regulators and external stakeholders.
Dashboard Benefits
Relieve the pain of searching through numbers in spreadsheets to find trends and variances.
Seamlessly navigate from summary data to the underlying detail that explains the cause for trends and variances.
Quickly assess risk and compliance exposure, and recommend corrective action.
Line of business owners need to be able to accurately forecast and easily model scenarios, so they can create strategic goals and plans that drive more profitable business outcomes.
Spreadsheet Benefits
Perform sophisticated analysis, modeling and planning without having to know spreadsheet functions, or macro programming.
Centralize data, metrics and business logic to prevent the use of spreadsheets as disconnected data marts and reporting engines.
Create a collaborative planning process across your organization to improve accountability for execution of strategy
Business analysts spend a lot of time mining vast detail and exploring the complex relationships between dimensions and metrics that drive business performance.
Visualization Benefits
Complete control over the selection, grouping and layout of information
Easy navigation of complex dimensions and analytical models
Explicit insight into the underlying detail driving trends and exceptions
Departmental workers want easy access to financial and operational information to help them execute corporate strategies and respond faster to changing business conditions.
Query and Reporting Benefits
Create and access reports without having to know SQL or some other query language
Deliver any conceivable report, in any output format through any communication channel
Easily personalize content and subscribe to scheduled content pushes
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