Problems facing businesses todayNon-availability of information on time

Delayed or improper decision making

Competitive marketBusiness performance needs to be analyzed and optimized to beat

competition

Dependence on clerical staff to compile and provide informationSubject to human error Work priorities define the availability of reportsWastage of time in repetitive labour of generating reports

Alternative large IT systems are complex and costlyBudget issuesFailed implementations

Dependence on IT for new reportsEvery new report has a lead time

…it is not about the information you don’t have;

It is about finding the right meaning out of what is already there…

The Solution – Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI)

What is BI?BI refers to skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used

to supportdecision making

The focus of Business Intelligence is Decision MakingBI is a technology which converts raw data to information to support

decision making

The questions which BI answersWhat 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

Business

Intelligence

Sales

Purchase

Accounting

Inventory

ERP

ERP systems also provide reports butInformation is staticDownload data to excel and prepare reportsLabour intensiveNew report development is expensive and time consuming

BI systems provideDynamic informationNew reports prepared on the flyUser defined reportsNo repetitive labour

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 ReportsExcelPDFOthers

Functions

Pre-defined analytical toolsComparatives for user defined time periodsVariation – Growth / degrowth for user defined time periodsContributionTop N / Bottom N GroupingAverage, Min, Max, Count and othersCustom fields and formulaeFiltersMany others

Example Reporting Capabilities

Sales

Analyze sales performanceAcross locations, SKU, salesperson, category, group, region, etc.Comparative across user defined time periodsGrowth by customer, item, stock group etc.

Focus on the right items and customersTop N / Bottom N customers, items, groups, salespersons, etc.Contribution percentage of item, customer etc.

Control exceptionsSales vs. Sales ReturnSales exceeding credit limitsSales vs. Receipts

Example Reporting Capabilities

Accounts Receivable

Drive collections withTop N outstandingsFIFO or Normal Ageing

Analyse customer performancePayment performance – average payment daysDSO analysis

Control delinquencies and working capitalCredit limit variance

Increase revenue through following up with inactive customers

Purchasing and Accounts PayableImprove 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 & InventoryControl cost through comprehensive cost centre reports – what are my

travelingexpenses across departments etc..Control inventory by slow and non-moving inventory analysis, inventory

holdingcomparison across time periods and more..Cash flow reports to understand incomings and outgoings

Example Reporting Capabilities

Example Report

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Chart Integration

Exception Report

360° view of business with real-time data

Standard & customizable dash-letsInteractive charts with run-time analysisTop N analysisDrill down & drill back features2D & 3D chart typesZooming & scrollingCircular & linear gaugesData tables with grouping, sorting & filtering to give detailed tabular

information

Export & E-mail

Dashboards

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

Example Dashboard

External Application

Architecture

N-tier architecture and open architectureAllows SBOeCube to connect any other application, be it an ERP solution or

a custombuilt application

Standard connectivity to all Microsoft SQL Server Databases

Report designerSystem administrator, integrator or implementation consultants can quickly

create and deploy reports

User AdministratorUsers with role based security

Application and Display Layer

ReportingComponents

Data Import &Transformation

Database Layer

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