Midsize and Departmental Solutions
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First, traditional BI is too complex for many mid-sized businesses and departments to support directly:
- It typically requires complex data integration software or custom-coded integration processes;
- It requires development and maintenance of a data warehouse or data marts;
- It involves implementation of complex BI software for dashboards and reports that involve significant amounts of customization.
Second, traditional BI lacks agility. This is particularly impactful on departments that rely on their corporate IT for BI. All too often, priorities and technology limitations preclude IT responsiveness to business’ need for information.
BI also can be cost-prohibitive. BI software and maintenance alone is expensive. But additional costs such as the cost of data integration software and hardware must also be factored. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, the implementation cost alone can be prohibitive. With the average BI project lasting 17 months and experiencing only a 31% success rate, it’s easy to see why mid-sized businesses have delayed investment in the technology. As a result, these organizations are still relying on time-consuming manual queries and extensive Excel-based data manipulation to get the business intelligence they need to operate.
Altosoft changes the BI game for mid-sized business and departmental solutions.
It starts with the technology. First, Altosoft enables agile data integration, which makes the hardest part of BI – bringing data together efficiently from multiple source systems – easy. Altosoft’s MetricsMart solution connects to multiple data sources, including operational systems like ERP or CRM, databases like SQL Server and Oracle, flat files, Excel, and even event-based data sources and data warehouses. It then uses an extremely efficient, in-memory engine to derive your key performance indicators (KPIs) from this data in a single step. These fully dimensioned KPIs are stored in an open, accessible database, which is used by InsightBI to provide easy dashboarding, reporting, and analysis functionality. These tables are self-maintaining, meaning no headaches over cube development and warehouse management.
Unlike every other BI product, Altosoft has a unified architecture and codeless implementation. That means the software integration complexity of traditional BI is eliminated, and configuration is easy. There is no coding or scripting at all. You won’t even need to write SQL!
As a result, implementation is speedy. You won’t have to integrate multiple software products. You won’t have to write custom code for data integration or dashboards. You will reduce your hardware expenditure, thanks to the efficient architecture, Microsoft platform, and Altosoft’s IDA technology.
Perhaps most importantly, Altosoft minimizes the normal project risk associated with BI. Altosoft’s iterative; spiral implementation approach enables rapid delivery of production analytical dashboards and reports in just days. Changes and enhancements are easy.
Training is also simple. Dashboard and report development in Altosoft is all drag-and-drop and browser-based. Meaning more of your organization can use Altosoft, faster.
And finally, Altosoft offers the most cost-effective BI solution [link to pricing page] on the market. Finally, mid-sized businesses and departments of larger organizations can take full, unimpeded advantage of the best that BI has to offer.