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The Financial Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting & Advanced
Analytics is an out-of-the-box solution that provides
management & users deep insights into Corporate Financial
Metrics empowering them like never before. The Financial
Quick-Mart is a robust data-mart fully integrated with Lawson
(can be easily extended to non-Lawson data as well) and is
designed with one goal in mind - rapid deployment. The Quick-
Mart comes standard with numerous CPA designed advanced
dashboards and analytic reports for actionable financial metric
visualizations. In today’s volatile economy, companies need
solutions, not tools. The Quick-Mart is a solution for
companies that want to improve processes, discover new
opportunities and gain a competitive advantage. The Quick-
Mart address any BI requirement – from flexible ad-hoc
reporting and analytics to dashboards and visualizations. See the world in new ways
BI Im
plementation Challenges
Access to frequently needed data is difficult
Data is not presented in easily understandable
formats
Culling data from multiple sources is very difficult
Difficulty understanding database schemas and
related table structures
High cost navigating the implementation road map
from conception to implementation
Users and IT departments on different wave-
lengths
Poor data quality, Bad data = bad decisions
Data locked up in non-collaborative spreadsheets
Financial Quick-Mart for Lawson
Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics
Why do corporations struggle for actionable analytics?
A recent benchmarking project by Ventana Research reveals that Operational data is not providing information in actionable formats required for CFOs & Finance Departments for making decisions.
The same research also shows that companies struggle to accomplish the basic goal of information management - that is, to standardize Operational information in a consistent and reliable form. Only 27 percent of the participants said doing that requires minimal effort or is not a problem. All the rest (73 percent) reported they find it difficult or impractical.
The top priority for participants was to support a BI initiative in the operational and customer service sectors.
The reasons for not getting a 100 % ROI on BI initiatives
� Implementing custom BI solutions from the ground-up turns out to
be more ambitious than bargained for
� Management and Analysts have inadequate knowledge of the
features and limitations of newly acquired BI tools
� Users are unable to integrate data from disparate and far-flung data
sources from both within and outside the organization
� Simple reports with static and tabular views of operational data do
not provide the visualizations the users need
� It takes users too long to develop complex reports and dashboards
� Reports are not suitable for management or executives
� Presentation quality, dashboards, etc are needed but not
delivered
� Accessing and analyzing non-Lawson data is difficult
� Challenges with distribution of information across the organization
and outside the enterprise with security
� Expert database schema knowledge is required for even the most
basic reporting
� Users face problems with passing parameter to/from the Lawson
environment
� Stretched IT resources are required for creating any report or
dashboard that is even marginally complex
� Operational changes in business puts a tremendous burden on
adapting deployed reports and dashboards to remain functional
� Difficult to adapt BI tools for compliance and taxation related
analytics
One Answer – One Solution
Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics
Quick-Mart analyzes financial data by whatever criteria you require, introducing greater reporting flexibility and extensibility, while analyzing transactions efficiently The Quick-Mart sharply reduce time and effort spent on key accounting tasks requiring comprehensive automation and tracking allowing you to analyze your financial information in the way that best suits your business—not someone else’s—with tools and accounting structures that you design yourself to serve your needs.
Solution Benefits What the Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics solution will do for you!
Business Benefits of a Quick-Mart
• Empower users with
reporting capabilities
• Information on demand –
easy accessibility
• One view of the organization
– consistent information
• Foundation for decision
making
• Adapts to mergers,
acquisitions, and divestitures
� Quick-Mart provides packaged extraction of operational data to
accelerate the deployment a data-mart for Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics.
� Quick-Mart manages accounts and transactions with unlimited flexibility using user-defined accounting structures, definable fiscal periods, prior-year adjustments, batch posting, cross-module auditing, and more.
� Improves advanced financial analysis capabilities by modifying existing General Ledger financial reports or creating new reports with unit account information, comparative analysis, and complete graphical support.
� Easily create comprehensive reports consolidating information from multiple companies or provisional transactions.
� Finds and analyzes the exact information you need through the tight integration with the General Ledger.
� Select a start and end date to support budgets of varying time intervals, such as quarterly, semi-annually, or multi-year, while keeping the existing options for fiscal year intact for budgets.
� Quick-Mart deliver pre-packaged business content and data flows in a single data platform optimized for BI and analytic applications.
� Quick-Mart enables business users to report on and gain insight into their enterprise information. Most include pre-built reports and universes that suit any organization and deliver domain knowledge on operational systems.
� BI tools and analytic tools can access the Quick-Mart data directly through SQL queries or indirectly through an web services.
� Quick-Mart can be implemented individually, or in any combination, to form a single platform that delivers the infrastructure for your company’s internal and external information needs. They can also serve as a staging area for enterprise analytic applications.
� Filter account views based on permissions, helping increase security and eliminating errors caused by entries made to incorrect accounts.
� Quick-Mart provides IT with an accelerated time to value through rapid BI deployments.
� CPA designed analytics available for immediate use for the most important financial metrics that affect the bottom line.
� Infinite what-if scenarios possible with highly interactive dashboards for all your planning, forecasting and budgeting needs.
� Solid Business objects technology driving the BI platform, the choice of more than 80% of the fortune 500 companies.
Operational Benefits of a Quick-Mart
• Analytic data is physically
different than transactional
data
• Supporting technologies
between the warehouse and
transactional data are
different and optimized for
application agility and
flexibility
Information Technology Benefits of a Quick-Mart
• Flexible architecture
• Efficient Utilization of
resources
• Building for the future
Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics
Built on the best of breed BI technology, Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting and Advanced Analytics provides the complete breadth of capabilities needed to achieve full Intelligent Reporting & Analytical maturity. This includes Reporting, Query & Analysis, Analytics, ETL and scorecarding capabilities. It includes the core essential capabilities of BI to empower end users with greater information insight. through flexible ad-hoc reporting, query, analysis, and dashboard enabling users to make fast, data-driven decisions—all without relying on IT.
A few features of the Quick-Mart with Intelligent Reporting & Advanced Analytics
Object Designer
The Object Designer is the semantic layer that isolates business users from the technical complexities of the databases where their corporate information is stored.
Mobile supports to the Users
Mobile support provides users to access to the features of Quick-Mart Intelligent Reports on the small screen of mobile devices including receiving alerts.
Quick-Mart Intelligent Search
Quick-Mart Intelligent Search is the first solution that brings together the simplicity and speed of Google like search capabilities with the trust and analytical power of BI—to give users immediate answers to their business questions. Business users employ familiar keyword searches to find information hidden in data sources, and then navigate and explore directly on data—no existing reports and metrics are necessary. Quick-Mart Intelligent Search allows users to enter keyword searches against data stores and get results back in the form of Intelligent reports, analytics and visualizations.
Collaboration
With Quick-Mart & BI Solution, your business analysts can quickly explore online analytical processing (OLAP) data, answer business questions, and then share their analysis and work space with others. This allows them to spread knowledge beyond the confines of a single department or analysis group. …………..And Many More……
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