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The Report You Need, the Way You Want It, When You Want It
by Tom Lawrence, CPA

Imagine a manager who wonders why certain initiatives are failing. He asks IT for a report. Half a day later, the report arrives, but it doesn’t answer all his questions. He asks for a new report. Days of back and forth ensue while operation losses continue to accumulate.

What if the manager, on the spot and with all the knowledge of the situation, could create his own reports, easily and quickly, on the fly - relevant and insightful reports based on the specific business objectives and issues he cares about?

Just a dream? Not any more. DataSelf Business Intelligence (BI) makes it possible, with user-friendly and high-end BI solutions designed to support decision-making in mid-size organizations. Its user-friendliness allows decision makers to fulfill from 70 to 100% of their reporting needs without help from IT. And that means you gain the ability to assess a situation and respond to it quickly.

DataSelf BI comes with more than 780 pre-defined reports and key performance indicators (KPIs), covering critical business trends of mid-size organizations, allowing fast deployment and adaptation by non-technical managers. These templates and KPIs are so extensive that some customers call them a virtual "consultant in a box." Many DataSelf BI clients have seen an immediate return on their DataSelf BI investment just by monitoring trends revealed by the out-of-the-box reports.

More important in the long run,with DataSelf BI, decision makers can usually write reports from scratch or modify existing reports faster than they can eat a donut - and without help from IT.

Here is a sample of what you can do with DataSelf BI:

• Create Crystal-like reports in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days.
• Improve customer loyalty by monitoring customer metrics.
• Improve business efficiency by monitoring the best and worst performers in sales, purchasing, or projects or any other area. Group them in any way, such as by customers or products, and by any measure, such as by sales or expenses.
• Improve business efficiency by monitoring moving averages of any business area in any grouping and by any measure.

Until recently, acquiring a solution like DataSelf BI required a large investment in time and money. Now you can join over 100 mid-size organizations that have taken advantage of DataSelf BI to satisfy all their reporting needs.

The solution leverages an easily customizable data warehouse and several OLAP cubes, allowing users to fine tune the BI system as reporting needs change. DataSelf BI also provides valuable BI features such as traditional reporting, analytics, dashboards, forecasting, budgeting, data mining and business activity monitoring.

DataSelf's solutions have grown out of more than 10 years of experience providing best-practice, high-end reporting, data analysis and analytic solutions to mid-size organizations. The DataSelf team understands the reporting needs of this market and knows how to fulfill them.

If the manager above had had DataSelf BI in place, he probably could have created the reports himself. No IT required! No delays! More importantly, he would be able to find out why the initiatives are failing and act on the problem right away. Wouldn't you like to be able to do the same?

For more information on how DataSelf can benefit your business team, contact your Sage MAS 90 and 200 ERP team at Integrated Computer Systems Support.