Prevent users from using niche BI tools on tactical projects

Is your business bypassing IT and using third party BI tools?

In a fast changing business environment, do you find your business colleagues increasingly look to BI to support their high value tactical or opportunistic projects and provide the insight they need to make effective decisions?

If so, you need a tool that lets you build Xcelsius dashboards in hours or days, rather than weeks or months to support your tactical business needs, a tool that allows you to combine information from your corporate SAP BusinessObjects system with other tactical data sources to give your users the big picture, and a tool that lets you deliver the interactivity your users need to make effective decisions without bogging you down in complex, time-consuming Excel formulas.

That tool, as many organizations just like yours are discovering, is XWIS from Antivia. XWIS is the perfect companion to SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Xcelsius...

Build dashboards in hours or days, rather than weeks or months

The tactical or opportunistic projects undertaken by your organization typically have short lead times and a short shelf-life. To provide BI support to these projects you need to be able to turnaround dashboards in an instant. The business complains that projects based around SAP BusinessObjects and Xcelsius take too long to deliver. So, the business turns to niche BI vendors who offer a more agile development environment ... but at the expense of creating silos of BI that you've been working for years to remove.

But, with XWIS, you can deliver Xcelsius dashboards 10-20 times faster, meaning you can deliver dashboards in hours or days, rather than weeks or months, so the business doens't need to look at niche BI vendors, you can keep everything within the SAP ecosystem and ensure that everyone still shares a single version of the truth.

Combine data from multiple sources inside your dashboards

Your tactical BI projects typically require access to new data sources alongside data from your corporate SAP BusinessObjects system. Maybe you're trying to break into a new market, launch a new product, trial a new store format ... often this means you'll need rapid access to data sources that aren't yet part of your BI infrastructure. But, in the short term, how do you get this data into your dashboards.

With XWIS, you can combine data from your SAP BusinessObjects system with other non-BusinessObjects data - you can view the combined data in the same dashboard component, perform calculations across this data, and drill through the common hierarchies within your data sets.

Deliver the interactive dashboards users’ need, without touching Excel formulas

Your users want to get into their dashboards, get out of their dashboards and get on with their jobs, as quickly as possible. They need dashboards that guide them quickly and efficiently to take effective action. This means they need to be able to drill down from higher levels of information to lower levels to investigate anomalies ... but when they drill, they want all related components to remain in sync. How can you deliver this level of sophisticated interactivity, without getting bogged down building multiple queries and multiple, complex Excel formulas?

XWIS provides automatic data and navigation synchronization across dashboard components, which means your dashboard developers can quickly create the rich, interactivity your users need, without needing to touch an Excel formula.

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