The power of answers

Exact Software delivers answers via business analytics with comprehensive access into various business management applications, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, CRM, SCM, etc. We believe that a vital element to a successful business intelligence solution is tight integration with the business management system.

Exact’s rich metadata model provides insight to a wide range of functional information, covering sales, financial, inventory/purchasing, manufacturing and other business areas. This integration along with standard views and a streamlined architecture provides business people with powerful analytic, reporting and dashboard capabilities. Exact Business Analytics™ (EBA) can be woven into the fabric of your systems and daily routine, providing answers and analysis directly from your business management applications.

Exact Business Analytics are:

Powerful

	Quickly and easily build Information Views and reports, dynamically combining and analyzing information from multiple sources, regardless of the business category or physical location of the data
	Integrated query, reporting and analytical tools, enable users to access vital business information, perform in-depth analysis and share the results throughout the organization— all from a single, comprehensive user interface
	With one mouse click, EBA delivers management views, dashboards and reports incorporating business metrics and key performance indicators either connected to the network or totally detached (while traveling on an airplane or impromptu ad-hoc analysis offline)

Practical

	Put information and control in the hands of business users—not just the IT department. Exact Business Analytics offers easy-to-use tools and a range of viewing options that meet the needs of all types of users
	EBA accesses data in place. There is no need to move data or create a data warehouse or data mart, thus saving significant dollars in initial and ongoing cost for hardware and technical services

Integrated

	Exact offers pre-built integrations that are broad, documented and supported
	EBA also integrates and displays data from any ODBC compliant data source, including ERP, CRM, or legacy systems
	EBA’s Analytical Model includes pre-defined information views, dashboard and report templates, along with a flexible information model that enables mapping to any source system

Getting to your information has never been so easy!

There is no need to settle for static reports (i.e. hard coded custom reports or those generated using report writer tools). Many people believe that the report they are used to receiving each week or month is all they need or can afford. The alternative to static reporting comes under the heading of “Business Intelligence” (BI). There is a common misconception that BI costs a lot, is too complicated and only for top management of big companies. EBA is one BI solution that breaks the price barrier; being affordable, accessible for all employees and easy to deploy. Think of BI as flexible reporting and analysis. This is Exact Business Analytics.

BI is becoming pervasive. Many people are using it but not giving it this title. For example, when a person is researching a purchase via the web, he or she is using BI when they sort by price or features. This simple example shows how flexible reporting has come to replace the static report. The hard copy performance charts that are often displayed in sales offices or manufacturing conference rooms are being replaced by more flexible “dashboards”, another part of BI. Dashboards can be automated and distributed in soft copy with drill downs into the underlying detailed data. The value of BI is tremendous and is becoming essential. One EBA BI “View” can replace dozens if not hundreds of hard copy reports.

EBA is designed to put the power of answers in the hands of business users at all levels. The system is readily extendable and scalable for multi-site, multi-currency and multi-country operations and offers the functionality to quickly and easily build analytics views and reports by dynamically combining and comparing data from multiple sources. Ad-hoc analyses, personalized analytic views, full online analytical processing (OLAP), graphing, reporting and dashboard capabilities, can be automatically distributed to users on a pre-defined schedule, or accessed via the web, offering users ROI in a matter of days.