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Sage Intelligence Reporting. What is your familiarity with Sage Intelligence Reporting? First time hearing about it I have it installed, that’s all I know I am running reports I am building custom reports. Why Business Intelligence?.
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What is your familiarity with • Sage Intelligence Reporting? • First time hearing about it • I have it installed, that’s all I know • I am running reports • I am building custom reports Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
Why Business Intelligence? Three key business issues will be top of mind for both the CEO and the CIO in the coming years. 1 The Essential CIO: Insights From the Global Chief Information Officer Study,” IBM, May 2011. Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
What is Business Intelligence? Which gives the company a competitive edge Business Intelligence accesses trusted information in a timely manner, then puts it into a useable format So that people across the organization can collaborate and make better business decisions Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
Traditionally… BI has been for the big guys SMBs have relied on Excel spreadsheets for data manipulation and analysis Excel does not suffice as a BI solution when it is used as a stand-alone reporting tool Microsoft Excel is the language of business and accountants worldwide! Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
Excel for BI • Gartner1: • “Efforts to stop Excel BI use in its tracks were bound to fail” • “Stop trying and make your peace with Excel as a BI tool” • Stanford University: 90% of end users export data to Excel so they can work on it there2 • The solution:Allow users to analyze data in the familiar interface of Excel, but within a controlled and structured environment, avoiding spreadsheet chaos 1http://searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com/news/2240018042/Gartner-BI-Summit-Wave-the-white-flag-on-using-Excel-for-business-intelligence 2 Sri Vemparala, manager of reporting and BI at Stanford University Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
What BI Solution Is Best for You? An Excel-based solution that is easy to use It must address your financial reporting needs It must be able to consolidate/combine reporting from multiple sources Graphical dashboards support agility Additional tools that support business insight Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
What is Sage Intelligence? Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
What is Sage Intelligence? Improve visibility into your organization Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
How Sage Intelligence can meet your needs Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
How Sage Intelligence can meet your needs Easy to use Familiar interface of Excel. Out-of-the-box value Predefined reports. Eliminates “spreadsheet chaos” Controlled and secure environment Consolidates data from any ODBC-compliant database Saves time and money Automates report preparation Flexible reporting Customize and manipulate reports Improves Collaboration Automated report distribution Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting
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Next Steps • Register on the Community • http://www.sageintelligencecommunity.com/groups • Webinars • http://www.sageintelligencecommunity.com/Webinars/ • Training • http://www.sageintelligencecommunity.com/TrainingCourses.aspx • Learn More • http://www.sageu.com/ Sage 100 Intelligence Reporting