How Does BI Work?

Now that you have more insight into what business intelligence is and how it can help your business, you probably want to learn more about how it works.

OUR MISSION: to make BI technology & Data Analysis and Reporting simpler and more accessible to small and midsized businesses.

MaxQ delivers business intelligence largely in five main steps:

Step 1: Develop business intelligence platform
Users can be confident that eProphet 2007 is built on a reporting platform for both traditional and interactive reports (browser based HTML). With scalable and manageable server infrastructure, only data points that are relevant to users are exposed at any given time. Reports are rendered in HTML, Excel, PDF, XML and CSV and the intuitive interface cuts down on programming efforts required to implement the solution. For most end users, only a web browser is required.

Step 2: Consolidate the silos of data
Your business will no longer have to churn out reports from several different islands of data. Even with incompatible applications and databases, eProphet 2007 acts as the bridge to keeping the data connected and systems working together.

Step 3: Leverage existing investments & experience in Microsoft Technologies
One of the major challenges of data analysis, particularly for information consumers, is utilizing a robust reporting tool that will allow them to access reports and browse, search and view those reports in familiar ways. Many of the tools you and your colleagues already use, understand and trust are integrated with eProphet 2007 including Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Dynamics SL and GP and software developed by other Microsoft ISV partners including Vsync and Accellos. And eProphet 2007 SharePoint web parts extend Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services functionality by leveraging security and report subscriptions via email.

Step 4: Provide information workers with ease in report consumption to reduce manual data rehashing
Managed security and flexible reporting output allows users to extend data their way. The integration with Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services adds extensive user personalization in report delivery. Whether products, SKUs or styles, customers or clients and even foreign language translations labels that describe the unique traits of your business can be easily configured and consumed. Users also have the ability to develop new analytics with eProphet Report Models and Microsoft Report Builder with click & drag ease.

Step 5: Provide a stable platform that allows information workers to easily scale as the business scales and needs change
With eProphet 2007 data is never locked in a "black box." The scalable architecture ensures that users only access the information they need, and in the format they understand. Changes are propagated to the entire eProphet universe and beyond; the eProphet Meta Base ensures a single version of the truth, no matter how you surface your analytics.

RESULT: We realize our mission. You gain access to timely, accurate business data.