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Embedded BI and Analytics Solutions Brief

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“WebFOCUS is easy to integrate with our customer-facing application. Users run reports from URLs in any portal, application, or menu. There is virtually no learning curve for accessing and receiving information from our embedded reports and dashboards.”

ROS Technology Services (Rosnet)

“We can demonstrate sophisticated reporting capabilities to our prospects. Additionally, [WebFOCUS] frees up our internal development resources, so we can focus on building core functionality instead of creating reporting tools.”

Chrome River Technologies

“Our customers want a complete solution. They want to be able to click a button and see BI functionality baked into the ERP module that they are using at that moment. Information Builders makes it easy for us to provide this type of service.”

Plex Systems

What Our Customers Say

“We needed integration tools for data aggregation and warehousing, integrity tools for cleans-ing, and data intelligence tools for mapping reporting, analyzing, and visualizing data. We selected Information Builders because they have the most comprehensive suite of products.”

Data Visualization Intelligence (a subsidiary of Travel and Transport)

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Solutions Brief: Embedded BI and Analytics3

Smart organizations know that the key to staying competitive is to effectively leverage the information generated and stored within their business systems. But in spite of the canned, static reports or limited features that come with many software solutions, most users struggle to capture and analyze their vast amounts of application data in meaningful ways.

This challenge creates a unique opportunity for technology providers to improve their offerings, strengthen their businesses, and drive incremental revenue. By embedding business intelligence (BI) and analytical capabilities into their solutions, they can empower customers with better, timelier, and more impactful insight from their applications. With embedded BI and analytics, vendors can give users advanced functionality at a lower cost of ownership and increased time to value.

Embedded BI and analytics helps software vendors expand their footprint, diversify their capabilities, and extend a solution’s lifecycle. Whether they’re designed to support sales, marketing, finance, or other business functions, whether they’re deployed on premise or in the cloud, software applications with embedded BI and analytics offer greater value to customers by putting actionable, reliable information into their hands whenever, wherever, and however they want it.

Vantage Point uses WebFOCUS data visualization tools to deliver real-time information.

Why Embedded Business Intelligence and Analytics?

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Embedded BI and Analytics With WebFOCUS

Comprehensive Data Management – Rosnet’s technology, powered by WebFOCUS, is a multi-unit restaurant management solution designed with a unique business in mind. Rosnet offers unparalleled integration coupled with configurable dashboards, allowing users to get their data how they want it, when they want it.

The WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform from Information Builders offers an ideal way for software providers to capitalize on the data generated by their applications, turning information into a revenue-enhancing tool for the vendor and its customers without draining development resources.

WebFOCUS enables solution providers to extend the user experience with:

■■ A full range of BI and analytics functionality, including predictive and social media analytics; charts, graphs, and data visualization; and performance management

■■ Support for intuitive customer-facing and self-service analytic applications that make it simple for non-technical users to interact with information

■■ Unmatched data access capabilities – any information in any source or system

■■ Multi-dimensional security with single sign-on, as well as role-specific and domain-level access to keep sensitive information out of unauthorized hands

■■ Support for multi-tenancy, so software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution providers deploy a single, shared instance of WebFOCUS using common code and data definitions used by multiple clients

■■ The ability to custom-brand dashboards and other applications

■■ Maximum scalability and extendibility – the BI environment can seamlessly grow to support a software application’s expanding user base

WebFOCUS also offers fully embedded data integration, data quality management, and master data management capabilities through its seamless integration with iWay Software solutions from Information Builders. With iWay and WebFOCUS, accurate and consistent data from any source can be readily retrieved and consolidated to facilitate optimum decision-making.

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Customer Success With WebFOCUS Embedded BI

ABC Financial Services – By embedding BI and analytics into its club management system, ABC Financial Services has made it easier for club owners to slice and dice performance metrics, and to visualize and summarize specific information about enrollment trends, cash flow, and campaign management scenarios. The company’s health and fitness club clients now have a deeper under-standing of their business, and powerful insight that helps them reach their sales goals.

Altice Labs – Based in Spain, Altice Labs is a leading supplier of key technology services to the telecommunications industry. The company enhanced its Altaia performance management system and service quality platform with analytics and data visualization capabilities. Telecom-munications service providers can now provide better service to their customers by utilizing powerful dashboards to monitor daily operational activities, and to track the performance of their operating zones.

Boise Cascade – This company, one of North Americas largest producers of wood products, embedded WebFOCUS InfoApps and dashboards into its web-based customer portal. This allows them to examine information about building projects, design specifications, and material lists. Internal analysts can also use the portal to track the tens of millions of dollars in rebates the company pays out each year, while managers can monitor many aspects of Boise’s manufacturing, distribution, and sales operations, including profitability breakdowns for any product, customer, or region.

CDS Global – A SaaS-based BI environment is helping CDS Global, a leading provider of outsourced business solutions for e-commerce, payment processing, marketing, order management, and fulfillment, provide better service to its publisher clients. The environment, known as InFOCUS Circ+, provides a clear view of business metrics by visualizing circulation, fulfillment, and order-management data and enabling the creation of reports that combine data and interactive controls in a single, self-contained HTML or PDF file, so users can conduct deep analysis and drill-downs, even when they are disconnected from the network.

Chrome River Technologies – This leading provider of expense management software and automated invoice processing incorporated WebFOCUS into its application. Users are now empowered with in-depth analytical capabilities that generate user-guided reports, including complex reports containing highly sophisticated charts and graphs. This improves visibility into spending patterns, so clients can achieve greater control over their expenses.

DealerTrack – With high-value software solutions and services, DealerTrack enhances efficiency and profitability for the retail automotive industry. Its flagship Dealer Management System was lacking modern analytics and data visualization capabilities, so DealerTrack extended the solution with WebFOCUS to let customers access dashboards and parameterized reports, or create their own custom reports. Users can now easily visualize business data and create custom reports for Parts Inventory, Customers, Service, Vehicle Inventory, and Accounting.

First Rate Investment Systems – As a top developer of portfolio analysis and performance mea-surement software, First Rate wanted to help its clients enhance services to its account holders. By extending its solution with WebFOCUS, First Rate enables clients to access in-depth details about hundreds of thousands of portfolios, perform batch reporting for tens of thousands of accounts, and enhance communication with clients by generating and delivering customized presentations.

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iovation – ReputationManager 360, iovation’s powerful SaaS reputation and fraud management solution, has been expanded with WebFOCUS. Clients can now perform simple and complex queries using data from iovation’s knowledge base, which contains details about approximately 800 million physical devices used to conduct online transactions. Users can analyze previously unavailable intelligence about transaction details, evidence, and device histories, and thoroughly investigate suspicious website visitors.

LeanLogistics – This global provider of transportation management systems (TMS) and supply-chain services has embedded WebFOCUS reports, dashboards, and ad hoc reporting tools directly into an existing SaaS application. LeanLogistics can now provide online reporting services to tens of thousands of users who have access to high-level metrics and can interact with their data via a secure web portal. With WebFOCUS, the company can strengthen customer relationships and maintain a competitive advantage.

Paycor – Giving clients a more comprehensive view of HR operations was a key priority for this leading provider of human resource and payroll services. WebFOCUS was integrated directly into the company’s product suite, empowering clients with access to advanced reporting features that allow them to tie together information about various HR operations. With WebFOCUS, Paycor has increased customer acquisition and retention, and can better differentiate itself in its market.

Plex Systems – Plex develops cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for the manufacturing industry. When creating reports using SQL programming proved too cumbersome for customers, Plex embedded WebFOCUS InfoAssist into its application. InfoAssist exposes a set of web-based design tools that allow users to drag and drop data elements into custom, interactive reports, charts, graphs, and dashboards. Hundreds of Plex customers now have a better way to access, analyze, and visualize their ERP data.

ROS Technology Services (Rosnet) – Thanks to embedded BI and analytics, this company’s web-based data management and reporting services for restaurants are now better than ever. Data is captured from point-of-sale, inventory, and employment systems, as well as applications that manage back-of-the-house functions. Rosnet’s restaurant clients can then exploit that data in the form of metrics related to efficiency and profitability.

Sparta Systems – Businesses can safely and efficiently deliver their products to market with enterprise quality management solutions from Sparta Systems. The company’s TrackWise software, a trusted standard among highly regulated industries, is used by quality, manufacturing, and regulatory affairs professionals to manage compliance, reduce risk, and improve safety. Sparta recently enhanced TrackWise with analytic and self-service capabilities from Information Builders. The addition of WebFOCUS in a phased approach is driving new business and enabling existing customers to get more out of their data.

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Travel and Transport/Data Visualization Intelligence (DVI) – Most corporate travel departments lack visibility into what employees spend on travel, with no single source of analytics that encompasses major travel purchases as well as incidental expenses. Travel and Transport created a big data analytics environment that combines travel management information, credit card data, expense data, and financial/budget information into a SaaS-based solution for monitoring, tracking, and predicting travel spending within a company. More complete and timely oversight and insight leads to more efficient purchasing contracts and greater compliance with corporate travel policies.

Willis Towers Watson – BenefitView™ is a client-facing analytics portal that allows clients of this provider of risk management, insurance, and HR processes to visualize information in an actionable way. Corporate benefit administrations can view data about retirees as they enroll in Medicare insurance. They can monitor enrollments, insurance plan selections, and service center metrics or track details about allocation amounts, funding information, and HRA spending. This helps them make better decisions that positively impact retiree welfare.

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IntelligenceThe WebFOCUS BI and analytics platform delivers rich, consumable, interactive information to the widest range of users.

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IntegrationOmni-Gen Integration Edition and its related components are the most flexible and agile integration foundation available, providing interoperability between disparate systems and data for faster time to market on IT and business initiatives.

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