What is BI-based reporting and why is it needed?

BI-based reporting uses data warehousing and tools like Tableau and Power BI to give you strategic insights instead of just standard ERP reports. It's faster, more flexible, and built for the decisions you actually need to make.
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Welcome to Dataself. Dataself provides business intelligence based reporting to help your organization make more timely and more informed business decisions. But let's first discuss how standard reporting works in an ERP system. Standard reporting has an analytical engine retrieving and processing raw data from your ERP database. Typical reports include things like sales reports, AR aging, open payables and balance sheets. These reports take a microscopic view of your business. They use your ERP data to dig into the details of your operations and provide visibility into transactions and assignments. But there are challenges. Building reports off of raw data is difficult and time consuming. It offers few metrics and the resulting reports can take far too long to run. And while ERP reports tell you what your business is doing, they don't tell you how your business is doing. BI based reporting overcomes these limitations. BI based reporting is business intelligence powered by a data warehouse. This gives BI based reporting the ability to go beyond the microscopic view of your data and give you telescopic insight. This insight is strategic, predictive and performance oriented. It includes aggregates and metrics on things like year over year, sales variances, high risk, debt, clients, profit and loss and cash flow projections. BI based reporting goes beyond telling you what your business is doing, it tells you how your business is doing. BI based reporting does this via a unique combination of data warehousing and business intelligence. The data warehouse optimizes your data, cleanses it adds smart metrics and enables slice and dice to actionable insight. The addition of BI means reports are easier to design, run in less than 10 seconds, provide infinite drill down and result in a definitive single version of the truth. So exactly how does Dataself deliver on the promise of BI based reporting? Dataself starts with the power of a data warehouse. Driven by our ETLplus technology standing for extract, transform and Load. ETLPLUS optimizes your ERP and related data and stores it in a SQL data warehouse for fast, easy and secure access. Dataself then adds the ease of use of top rated BI and analytic tools such as Tableau and Power bi. Other popular data management tools like Excel are also supported and dataself is completed by the industry's largest library of pre configured KPIs reports and dashboards so you can get Dataself up and running in a single day. The result? Dataself analytics for BI based reporting. A solution that combines the power and efficiency of data warehousing, the ease of top analytic tools and an extensive reports and dashboards library. Dataself better at showing you what your organization is doing essential for telling you how your organization is doing. Contact us to learn more today and thanks for watching.










