Report Module

Business Analysis Tool

A Powerful Business Intelligence System www.bitimpulse.com

Copyright © 2005-2014 BIT Impulse. All rights preserved.

Contents

Information about Our Company

What is a BI-system?

Report Module

Administrative Module

Architecture and Key Features

Advantages of Our Reporting System over

Business Rivals


Information about Our Company


Information about Our Company

Our business is:

Development of our own BI system and consulting in this area (creation of

OLAP/DW/ETL)

Custom development of web/windows applications based on .NET platform

Technologies that we use:

Microsoft .NET

Microsoft SQL Server, Analysis Services

We do software development and consulting since autumn 2003.

Our website – www.bitimpulse.com


What is a BI-system?


Problem

Each company, regardless of its size and scope of activity, has at least a single informational system with a database. This system contains the entire historic information about company activity – sales, orders, shipments, transactions etc.

How is it possible to analyze this data?

How to generate reports on this data to make decisions?


Old Model of Reporting Systems

Many companies have reporting made in this way:

Client Level

Direct SQL queries

ERP CRM SCM

MS SQL, Oracle,

MySQL, Access, etc.

Reporting systems of this type are currently unable to meet all requirements.

Such systems create a set of serious problems.


Briefly on BI

Business Intelligence System (BI-system) is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, providing access to, and analyzing data for the purpose of helping enterprise users make better business decisions.

Data in DB

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BI-system

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Making

Decisions

A perfect analytical system is:

All company data are stored in the unified format in the same “coordinate system”

Reports of long time periods (a month, a year) are quickly generated

Users are able to customize the reports

Everything works well constantly, without involving IT personnel.

We are doing our best to make our product a perfect analytical system.


Our BI System

BIT Impulse ®

Business

Analysis Tool

Report Module

Administrative

Module

Application Server

Features of our BI-system:

Interactivity

Stability

Integration with

Microsoft Office

Flexible administration

Support of all version of SQL Server since

2005

Analysis

Services

OLAP

OR

TABULAR

SQL Server Data Warehouse

Integration

Services

CRM SCM


ERP

Fearures of Analysis

Services:

Powerful mechanisms of data selection

Flexible algorithms of cube processing

Powerful tools for cube and dimension design

What is an OLAP cube?

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Products

Axes contain dimensions

(time, stores, products etc)

Cube cells contain measures, for example

“quantity of products sold”


What is a Tabular (BISM)?

You can create a set of related tables which are loaded into server’s RAM.

All calculations are done

“on-the-fly”. You can use either DAX or MDX guery language.


Customers


Report Module


Report Module

Data analysis features:

Pivot tables, charts, treemap, scatter diagram;

Searching, filtering, sorting of data;

Easy change of report structure;

Highlight of data;

Viewing of the data source;

Offline data analysis;

Export to Excel, Word and PDF;

Printing reports.


Report Module

Pivot/Chart

You can:

Drill up/down an element

Select the desired level of detailing

Perform other navigation functions

Change the structure of the report using simple drag&drop operations

Hide/Show element


Report Module

Scatter Diagram

The dynamic scatter diagram allows to track 4 measures at once. Each element is drawn as a circle. 2 measures define it’s position, while other 2 measures define it’s color and size.


Report Module

Treemap

The tree-map algorithm is a combination of a diagram and a tree. One measure corresponds to the size while the other corresponds to the color.


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Dashboard

Dashboard gives a possibility to combine several elements in one report.

The main advantage is a possibility to see all high-level KPIs by different dimensions.


Report Module

Dashboard

Constructing of dashboard is quite easy: you simply drag and drop the necessary items to its place.


Report Module

Dashboard

At this moment the table can display values using different types of markers.

Future versions will contain another ways of displaying data.


Report Module

Member Selector

The “Member Selector” dialog allows to to set the desired set of members. You can not only find the necessary members, but also you may search and filter them.


Report Module

Charts

There are more than two dozens of chart types.

Each chart can be configured with preview.


Report Module

Highlighting of Data

With the help of the gradient and exception highlighting you can analyze a vast amount of data


Report Module

Filtering and Sorting

You can set up filtering of rows/columns of a table


Report Module

Change of Report View

You can change the following report parameters:

Color of text/background

Font

Number formatting (number of digits after point, currency, percentage, regional settings)

Text orientation and alignment

(vertical/horizontal, right/left/center alignment)


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Drilling through Details

For each position in the report you can see what data is "behind" it


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Reviewing Data Offline

It's possible to save the report into NRP-file or to a local cube. There are special programs to view those files:

Просмотрщик NRP файлов


Просмотрщик локальных кубов

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Data Export

The application supports export to:

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PDF

OpenOffice


Report Module

Scheduler Service

You can get the reports by schedule at desired days and time in any format.


Report Module

Printing

You can set the scale, margins, comments, select the paper size and printing.

You can print in color.

Preview mode is available

The pages are automatically numbered


Administrative Module


Administrative Module

Administrative functions:

Management by users, roles, reports;

Creation of the report templates;

Setting of access permissions for the reports and data in the cubes

Viewing and analyzing of all usage statistics (who has opened what reports, what actions performed, what MDX requests launched)

Subscribing users on reports by schedule

E-mail notifications

SSAS roles backups


System Architecture


Architecture

Report Module

Administrative

Module

HTTP + zip compression

Repository

(SQL DB)

BAT Application Server

ASP.NET web services

IIS

.NET remoting

Process Pool of

MDX executors

Scheduler

(Windows Service)

Works on Windows

2003 - 2012R2

Analysis Services

The following MSAS are supported:

2005, 2008, 2008R2, 2012


OLAP

TABULAR

Architecture

Out GUI application is developed using .NET technology. It communicates with the application server using HTTP protocol. This gives us a set of advantages over zero footprint clients:

1) speed: .NET code works much faster than any javascript

2) visualization: rendering of chars, tables, highlightings etc. looks better when it is a GUI applicatioin if to compare it with DHTML

3) traffic: out .NET code compresses all HTTP traffic using zip compression. The level of compression is at minimum 10 times. With HTML you will never achieve this.

4) resources: we can guarrantee that we’ll free all resources in our .NET code..

5) Stability: our code keeps everything under control. In the case of errors administrators will get a notification with logs about what really happened (what report the user was looking, what button they pressed, etc.) so we can solve the problem in a short period of time.


Key Features

One report – different access rights: the same report can be accessible for multiple users, however, each user will see only the data to which they have access.

Integration with Active Directory: BAT users and roles can optionally bound to users and groups of AD. This simplifies administration of the system.

The reports are not linked directly to the cubes: data access is performed through cube “pointers”.

User profiles: each user is assigned a profile by administrator. Dependently on this profile they gain access to certain functions in the report designer.

Intellectual application server , which executes user queries and is responsible for correct server load, for timely stopping of command execution, memory allocation, etc.

Zip-compression of transferred data from the client to server and vice-versa.

Problem tracking subsystem – we start reacting on your problems earlier than you notify us.

Client application can work both inside the browser and separately. There is a way of deployment of the client through the AD group policies.


Advantages of Our Reporting System over

Business Rivals


Advantages over Rivals

Technical possibilities

Technical possibilities of our system are higher than those of the rival systems

Pricing

Our solution is less expensive than of competitors

Adaptation for your needs

In case if it is necessary to make changes or implement new features for you, we will cope with this for a moderate price and quite quickly . The majority of other BI vendors, on the contrary, will not pay attention to the needs of an individual customer.

Support

We react to your problems before you are going to notify us. Our rivals have no such support mechanisms.


Contacts

Web-site: www.bitimpulse.com

E-mail: info2@bitimpulse.com

Phone.: +380-32-2442265

Address: 149, Zelena st., Lviv, Ukraine, 79035


Report Module

Business Analysis Tool

Information about Our Company

What is a BI-system?

Report Module

Administrative Module

Architecture and Key Features

Advantages of Our Reporting System over

Business Rivals

Information about Our Company

What is a BI-system?

Report Module

Pivot/Chart

Member Selector

Change of Report View

Drilling through Details

Reviewing Data Offline

Data Export

Scheduler Service

Printing

Administrative Module

Administrative Module

System Architecture

BAT Application Server

Advantages of Our Reporting System over

Business Rivals

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