Problems facing businesses today

Non-availability of information on time

Delayed or improper decision making

Competitive market
Business performance needs to be analyzed and optimized to beat competition

Dependence on clerical staff to compile and provide information

Subject to human error Work priorities define the availability of reports Wastage of time in repetitive labour of generating reports

Alternative large IT systems are complex and costly

Budget issues Failed implementations
it is not about the information you dont have; It is about finding the right meaning out of what is already there

Dependence on IT for new reports

Every new report has a lead time

The Solution Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) What is BI?
BI refers to skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making

The focus of Business Intelligence is Decision Making

BI is a technology which converts raw data to information to support decision making

The questions which BI answers

What has happened? Why has it happened? What is happening? Why is it happening? What will happen?
Business intelligence is a key ingredient of success today, used by forward-thinking organizations as a driver for business innovation Gartner Business Intelligence Summit

The Need for BI

BI Systems do not replace ERP systems but compliment them
ERP systems also provide reports but
Information is static Download data to excel and prepare reports Labour intensive New report development is expensive and time consuming

BI systems provide
Dynamic information New reports prepared on the fly User defined reports No repetitive labour
Sales

Purchase
Accounting Inventory

Business

ERP

Intelligence

SBOeCube Business Intelligence Suite

Business Intelligence (BI) Easy and Accurate Reports for SAP Business One Fully integrated with SAP Business One Pivots, Grids and Dashboards Easy to use drag and drop interface

User customizable with storage of user defined reports

Export and Email Reports
Excel PDF Others

Functions
Pre-defined analytical tools
Comparatives for user defined time periods Variation Growth / degrowth for user defined time periods Contribution Top N / Bottom N Grouping Average, Min, Max, Count and others Custom fields and formulae Filters Many others

Example Reporting Capabilities

Sales
Analyze sales performance
Across locations, SKU, salesperson, category, group, region, etc. Comparative across user defined time periods Growth by customer, item, stock group etc.

Focus on the right items and customers

Top N / Bottom N customers, items, groups, salespersons, etc. Contribution percentage of item, customer etc.

Control exceptions
Sales vs. Sales Return Sales exceeding credit limits Sales vs. Receipts

Example Reporting Capabilities

Accounts Receivable

Drive collections with

Top N outstandings FIFO or Normal Ageing

Analyse customer performance

Payment performance average payment days DSO analysis

Control delinquencies and working capital

Credit limit variance

Increase revenue through following up with inactive customers

Example Reporting Capabilities

Purchasing and Accounts Payable
Improve purchasing efficiency by getting ready analysis when did I last buy this item, who were the suppliers, what was the rate, etc.. Understand item rate movements for items with fluctuating prices such as steel, sugar, oil, copper, aluminium, etc..

Cost Centre, General Ledger & Inventory

Control cost through comprehensive cost centre reports what are my traveling expenses across departments etc.. Control inventory by slow and non-moving inventory analysis, inventory holding comparison across time periods and more.. Cash flow reports to understand incomings and outgoings

Example Report

Other Reports
Grid Report

Exception Report

Chart Integration

Dashboards
360 view of business with real-time data Standard & customizable dash-lets
Interactive charts with run-time analysis Top N analysis Drill down & drill back features 2D & 3D chart types Zooming & scrolling Circular & linear gauges Data tables with grouping, sorting & filtering to give detailed tabular information

Export & E-mail

SBOeCube dashboards provide C-Suite Executives and Business Managers access to actionable information without time consuming and repeated labour or manual intervention

Example Dashboard

Architecture
N-tier architecture and open architecture
Allows SBOeCube to connect any other application, be it an ERP solution or a custom built application

Standard connectivity to all Microsoft SQL Server Databases Report designer

System administrator, integrator or implementation consultants can quickly create and deploy reports

User Administrator
Users with role based security
Application and Display Layer

Reporting Components

Data Import & Transformation

External Application

Database Layer

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