Analance Data Integration Technical Whitepaper
Executive Summary Business Intelligence is a thriving discipline in the marvelous era of computing in which we live. It s the process of analyzing and exploring information, trends and patterns hidden in data. BI escalates the business roadmap and facilitates business users to deliver better strategic solutions. This process helps enterprise decision makers by providing data models, statistical analysis and forecasting for comprehensive data analysis. In order to maximize the abilities of your BI platform, it is imperative that data is collected from applicable data sources and presented to users in a single view of the business operation. It sounds simple enough but integrating data continues to be a challenge for most enterprises. In order to maximize the abilities of your BI platform, it is imperative that data is collected from applicable data sources and presented to users in a single view of the business operation. There isn t one standard process for integrating data. There are disparate data sources, databases, data warehouses, and data marts. Each database handles data very differently, so what works for one organization doesn t necessarily work in another. The merging of data happens in the data warehouse or data mart where it is Extracted, Transformed and Loaded (ETL) from heterogeneous sources into one data store with common schema enabling the ability to query data. The challenge of data freshness remains. When the original data source is updated, it doesn t update the main data repository. To reconcile this problem, the ETL process has to be re-executed in order to synchronize the data. Additional problems arise when the query is designed to utilize summary data and the user would like to query granular level data. The process is further complicated when combining data from different departments such as when marketing is developing a bundled promotion. In addition to marketing data, a company might find it useful to evaluate information from field services, customer service and product returns. Yet often times, each department has their own silos of data. Analance TM and Data Integration Analance BI provides a comprehensive integrated business intelligence, data analysis and enterprise reporting solution with its state of the art analytical and reporting services. Leveraging a modern architecture design based on SOA and XML web services, Analance Report Services provides a highly flexible, scalable, customizable and high performance reporting solution in a cost effective way. Enterprise reporting Powerful Analytics Performance Management Rich, interactive reports Real-time data analysis Scorecards and Dashboards Reduces IT role of Advanced running Analytics Robust data mining Simplified metrics reports Real-Time Quick Data Modeling management Exploration and Discovery Automates Business Logic Point and Click Interface Unified Data Source Easy and Quick Access Automated Report and Dashboard Delivery Cos Built on single, integrated Enterprise BI Platform 1
Analyse a query and return the list of fields used for grouping, sorting Iterate through rows and retrieve metadata easily Analance Collaboration and Integration The ability to extract and present information in a meaningful way is vital to business success. The ability to extract and present information in a meaningful way is vital to business success. Regardless of where data sits within an organization, people need the ability to access and transform data into actionable insight. Executives need aggregated data that captures a complete view of the company and its operations if they are to measure performance and respond proactively to changes in the marketplace and the industry. Managers, teams and individuals need the ability to find, share and use information from across all areas of the business to perform tasks effectively and monitor business operations. Finally, in this era of regulatory scrutiny, effectively managing compliance activities across the company requires a continuous flow of information and streamlined reporting activities. Simply put, if companies are to make smart, fast decisions, they need business intelligence tools like Analance that deliver the right information to the right people at the right time. The Analance framework provides prebuilt adaptors to work across platforms and integrate with several applications to provide: An integrated architecture A secure and personalized user experience A collaborative environment A comprehensive, cost-effective solution 2
Disclaimer: All other products and service names mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective companies. Analance SAP Integration Analance BI offers comprehensive flexibility for instant provision of all SAP R/3 & BW info objects for analytics and reporting platforms so knowledge workers can monitor business activity, analyze business performance and utilize goal driven business processes to optimize corporate performance. Analance on the Microsoft platform extends the SAP Net Weaver platform by following: Reporting and analysis on data held in SAP transactional systems (e.g. mysap ERP / R/3) Leverage SAP BW business content and R/3 integration Flexible free-form reporting on SAP BW Flexibility, through deployment options Greater analytics and reporting flexibility and features MOLAP technology for better performance and scalability More productive and efficient data transformations Analance and Microsoft SharePoint Integration Analance custom web parts like Connection Content Manager, Navigation, Favourites, Single & Multiple Tabbed Report Viewer, Dashboard Viewer Single Sign On Manager for Business Intelligence & Performance Management Tasks Integrate Analance BI into your day to day business applications in Microsoft SharePoint Portal Drag & Drop BI Analance BI offers comprehensive flexibility for instant provision of all SAP R/3 & BW info objects so knowledge workers can monitor business activity, analyse business performance. 3
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Analance Collaboration Benefits Analance provides a comprehensive integrated business intelligence, data analysis and enterprise reporting solution that delivers extended benefits to any business: Dashboards and applications can be created with specific BI content and merged with other web parts to present a cohesive and productive user experience for different departments and user groups within your organization. By integrating Analance Web Parts within SharePoint, you unlock the ability to create countless combinations of applications with embedded business logic. Users become more productive when presented with focused business workflow that can revolve around a single report, a series of reports or dashboards. Easy to use, customizable features allow you to add a discussion group right next to your sales reports, create a site dedicated to your department s scheduled reports, add links to training material for additional information, or notify users of news alerts or system updates. These enhanced BI tools help to streamline business processes to optimize corporate performance. By gaining faster access to data, you can more closely monitor your business processes and drive smarter, more profitable decisions. 5
For more information or to speak with a Sryas Representative Please Email: info@sryas.com or call 1 844 382 3648 About Sryas Sryas is a technology consulting company specializing in advanced business intelligence, data integration, application development, collaboration, and performance optimization solutions. At Sryas, we solve our customer s most challenging IT problems by giving them the tools they need to tap into critical business data to improve the decision-making process. Our end-to-end IT solutions incorporate the latest technologies and techniques to help our clients achieve increased sales, higher margins and improved profitability. Our clients are diverse organizations across North America and Asia and a mix of innovative, emerging, and leading global corporations across industry spectrum from Media and Telecom to Healthcare, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Hospitality, Education and Financial Services. We work with business and technology leaders in sales, marketing, production, supply chain, customer service, operations and IT. We help our clients in executing strategic initiatives as well as achieving operational excellence while optimizing their business processes. 6