Excel Edition / Web Browser
IntelligentApps Excel Edition or a web browser acts as the client tool, accessing the server data across the network or via http across the internet.

Web Edition
IntelligentApps Web Server Edition and IntelligentApps Excel Edition utilize the Microsoft .NET architecture in construction, deployment and communications.

Business Intelligence (B.I.)

The ability to consolidate data from multiple data sources and analyse in an easy to interrogate format through the Web or Excel.

The first probable reference to Business intelligence is made in Sun Tzu's "Art of War" where he claims that to succeed in war, you should have full knowledge of your strengths/weaknesses and full knowledge of your enemy's strengths/weaknesses. Lack of either one might result in defeat. BI is the art of wading through tons of data overload, sieving through data and presenting information - both internal (from operational systems) and external (market intelligence) - on which management can act or build strategies.

SQL Data Warehousing, OLAP and Intelligent Apps.

• Brings together data from all over the various disparate systems within your business. Consolidate into ONE Data Warehouse.

• Uses the Power off Microsoft’s B.I. offering based upon the Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services platform, “Cut & Dice” data using OLAP cube technology.

• Combines the simplicity of a spreadsheet interface with the scalability and robustness of a corporate database.

• Business Intelligence applications such as sales and financial reporting together with scorecards and ad-hoc reporting can now be delivered to the desktop and the web in minutes.

• Eliminates the need for expensive proprietary BI software products.

• Delivers 'one version of the truth'.

• By running as part of Excel, IntelligentApps exploits the existing skills of your staff, allowing them to create reports in minutes. Solutions based upon IntelligentApps are intuitive to use, quick and easy to build, and extremely cost effective to deploy across the business either through Excel or a web browser; delivering a rapid return on investment.

• With the combination of IntelligentApps and Analysis Services, the need for very expensive third-party proprietary Business Intelligence tools has been finally eliminated.

The experts view

"IntelligentApps has created an ingenious new product that unlocks the hidden OLAP power that Microsoft ships with every copy of Excel. This is one of the few tools that allow end users with typical Excel skills to create and manage sophisticated multidimensional business models without needing the help of database experts and without even leaving Excel."

Nigel Pendse, Lead BI Author