The Unique CPM and BI Toolkit
Although the CPM Toolkit market segment has only recently seen official
recognition, BOARD International is the
first software vendor to adopt the toolkit approach, successfully bringing
BOARD MIT Management Intelligence Toolkit to a large variety of organizations
over the last 10 years.
All this experience has been harnessed to make BOARD's
components both easy to use and extremely rich in functionalities.
At its core, the BOARD toolkit is a seamless blend of tools in one
environment providing tremendous efficiencies during the design, development
and deployment of CPM solutions. These tools—a
highly scalable multidimensional database, data reading and transformation
tools (ETL), application user interface environment (client and web),
security and a multi-tier architecture for system delivery—are
the pieces one might expect when building an analysis application. The
BOARD toolkit was designed to use all these tools together within the
same development framework to provide an unparalleled combination of
speed, flexibility and affordability.
This integrated all-in-one approach eliminates the need for high levels
of technical expertise and substantially reduces the complexity and
costs associated with building, customizing and maintaining a data analysis
environment. Most of these efficiencies arise by eliminating the technical “plumbing” involved
in combining the various software layers.
The Toolkit and the needs of end-users: a new perspective
Users build BOARD applications using a wide variety
of objects including reports, charts, worksheets, calculation models,
pictures, gauges and multi-file viewing objects. To build applications,
users simply drag and drop these objects from a toolbox onto the screen
without any programming. Through this application environment, users
gain access to a wide range of functions for maximum flexibility of
analysis including time series analysis, exception reporting, sorting,
ranking, filtering, color-coding, 80-20 analysis and multidimensional
modeling.
Seamless integration with the database makes the objects that comprise
the application data-aware. This means you can easily synchronize the
advanced visualization and data exploration. Instead of simply drilling-down
on a report to retrieve a lower level display of the same report, users
can click directly on a report line and immediately see other related
objects (charts, gauges, etc.) updated on the screen. In effect, this
produces intuitive, immediate, on-screen drill-anywhere capabilities.
It’s even possible to launch a simulation / calculation model
from a report line and apply the logic (an allocation, a what-if, etc.)
only to the subset of data related to that selection.
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