Deployment process and exploitation of information

Business Intelligence

Business intelligence is the use of data by a company in order to facilitate the decision-making process. This includes the comprehension of current operations and the forecast of actions for an effective company management. Decision-making tools are based on the use of a decision-making information system operated by the retrieval of data from production, information about the company or its entourage and other economic data.

In terms of business intelligence, an open architecture or Open Database Construction (ODBC) is essential to developing and distributing this intelligence to managers. The flexibly of the Decimal Suite’s architecture allows the user to collect information directly from the database and use it according to their needs from any existing reporting tool on the market. This architecture represents a great advantage for companies because it allows the generation of reports of your choice while still respecting the current standards and analysis tools of the company.

These decision-making analysis tools allow easily retrieve data in order to create charts, for reporting purposes. Therefore, tools such as Crystal Report, Business Object, Cognos, Discoverer, Microsoft Access and even Excel may be used to analyse data, generate reports and customize presentations.

The Business Intelligence Module is the Decimal Suite’s reporting tool, which allows users to create or modify reports and charts according to their needs. This module, which is also called ‘’Analyser’’ also allows the effective use of various data whether they are generated by the Decimal Suite, or come from other systems such as a management integrated software. 

The Business Intelligence Module offers managers the possibility to easily view large amounts of data in the form of pivot tables (Cube OLAP) or custom reports. Even if any report generator can be used to perform different tasks, Decimal’s accounting practice management has developed a business intelligence using the Discoverer tool by Oracle. In fact, Discoverer includes a catalogue with predefined links, which allow the generation of reports faster than with other tools found on the market.

The Business Intelligence Module of the Decimal Suite allows a multidimensional analysis of large databases to place the emphasis on a specific data analysis commonly referred to as OLAP (On-Line Analytical Processing). Thanks to OLAP, users can create multidimensional representations (called hypercubes or OLAP cubes) based on predefined criterions in order to simulate different situations.

The Business Intelligence Module also allows, as opposed to the multidimensional analysis (OLAP), to place the emphasis on possible correlations in an important volume of data in order to extract trends, commonly referred to as Datamining (literally mining for data). Datamining relies on artificial intelligence techniques in order to highlight hidden links between data.

Business applications

• Customized reports
• Cross tables
• Graphs and charts
• Datamining
• Consolidation
• Model comparison
• Benchmarking
• Scenarios analysis