Mature BI technology

SocrateBI is built on MicroStrategy platform, recognised as a world leader in business intelligence market and offers capabilities for:

• Scorecards and dashboards
• Operational reports
• OLAP cubes
• Advanced analysis

• Alerts and proactive notifications

Data is extracted from different sources such as: operational databases, OLAP cubes, data marts, Excel files. Using a loading mechanism to extract data called ETL (Extract, Transform and Load) these are integrated into data warehouse which offers the following benefits:

• historic data in one place
• integration of multiple sources of data offering a general view of the company
• quality data improvement

• consistent data for the company
• one model of data, independent from data source
• high performance of complex data interrogation without impacting operational data

MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the most advanced, scalable, secure and robust business intelligence server in the industry. This is the core of analytical data processing, management of services for reports analysis and applications.

Taking advantage of Transactional Services capability, users have the possibility to interact at transactional level with the data warehouse so they can approve requests, make orders, change plans and so on.

The SocrateBI modules can be accessed using:

• Web browsers
  SocrateBI can run on browsers such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Netscape, Safari, Opera, without the need to use cookies, download code or without using Java or ActiveX controls.

• Portals
  Portals embedding offers the possibility to create dashboards, taking benefit of all functionalities and interactivity. Portlets are available for IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Microsoft SharePoint and SAP NetWeaver.

• Microsoft Office
  SocrateBI can be accessed by MS users, allowing those to edit and format any report from MicroStrategy direct from Microsoft applications such as Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Windows
  Using Desktop, an intuitive Windows based interface, users can interactively build reports, run, and display formatted results as well as navigate to the desired details. Investigation of data can be done using drilling, pivoting and slicing.

SocrateBI offers the possibility of receiving reports via email, automatically saving on file servers and sending to printers. Information is secured and distributed to each user and can be scheduled, on time, events or thresholds, which can be set by administrator or users.