Overview
Why choose Eclipse for Zap Business Intelligence?
Zap Business Intelligence is a single, complete solution to meet your business intelligence (BI) needs. A web-based solution, Zap Business Intelligence allows you to gain insight across multiple business systems and drive your business to achieve a competitive advantage.
Tailored to the needs of small to medium enterprises, Zap Business Intelligence out-of-the-box software integrates with a range of Microsoft Dynamics solutions. A powerful, yet flexible solution, Zap Business Intelligence provides all the standard capabilities that users expect, including dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards, reports, ad-hoc analysis, and alerts and report scheduling.
Eclipse Quick Facts - BI Team
- 14 fully-qualified BI Solution Managers, Consultants and Developers
- Over 168 years of combined BI/DW experience
- Large, local BI reference customer sites across our locations
- Skill matrix:
- Data warehousing development
- Reporting and analytic solution development
- Financial management solution development
- Consolidation
- Budgeting
- Planning
- Forecasting
- Development of data management/BI strategies
- Data governance strategies
- Competency Centres
- Internal BI/DW development centres of excellence
Below: Zap Technology’s Dashboarding capabilities allows the flexibility to represent several data sources into a single highly efficient display, such as MS CRM and MS Dynamics AX.
Benefits
Whether the management accountant is completing end of month financial reports, or the operations manager is modelling alternative price points - they use the same solution. Analytics can be viewed via Outlook, exported to Excel, or integrated with SharePoint. Reports can be scheduled, distributed, and subscribed to, based on specific events and timeframes. Reports can even be shared from Zap Business Intelligence outside the company network (for example, to customers).
With Zap Business Intelligence you can:
- Focus on your company performance
- Unite data from different core areas
- Achieve consistency
- Automate and improve reporting
- Improve decision-making
Adaptable software with rapid implementation capabilities, Zap Business Intelligence will quickly bcome one of the most used and relied-upon tools in your company.
Our People & Our Skills in Your Locations
The Eclipse BI and Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Team has over 168 years experience of combined experience. Our team has implemented numerous customer sites, supporting over 480 BI end users, and has the skills and experience to ensure your project is a success.
Most importantly, our BI and CPM team can be found in Eclipse offices across Australia - so you have direct access to the rights skills for your site.
Below: Using Zap Technology’s building blocks methodology allows quick drag & drop creation of very pointed and relevant dashboards pulling reports, charts, scorecards, KPIs and transactional information from many part of the business allowing the viewer to see the information that is most important to them.
Features
Dashboards
| Dashboards provide an instant visual snapshot of performance. |
- Drag-and-drop creation
- Dynamics resizing
- Guided analytics
- Drill down for detail
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Reports, charts, ad-hoc analysis
| Automate reporting workflows to improve the timeliness of information. This empowers users to move beyond manual reporting and provide more strategic analysis that will impact the bottom line. |
- Management reports
- Flexible list and aggregate reports
- In-line charts and KPIs
- What-if
- Slicing
- Ad-hoc analysis
- Deep drill-through
- Real-time reports
- Flexible functions
- Visualisation
- Automated report scheduling
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Key Performance Indicators
| Automate reporting workflows to improve the timeliness of information. This empowers users to move beyond manual reporting and provide more strategic analysis that will impact the bottom line. |
- Drag-and-drop creation
- Flexibility to customise
- Dynamics calculations
- Flexible formatting
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Scorecards
| Scorecards are a collection of key performance indicators (KPIs) providing an at-a-glance snapshot of performance against targets. Scorecards highlight business goals, and the difference between those objectives and real results. |
- Drag-and-drop creation
- Drill through
- Weighted KPIs
- Additional metrics
- Automatic creation from hierarchies
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Alerts and Reporting Scheduling
| Alerts and report scheduling provide an early warning system to notify users about changes in performance. They help automate discovery and learning, and remove the task of manually monitoring performance and providing updates. |
- Alerts
- Alerts with insight
- Flexible distribution and subscription
- Security automatically applied
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Extending and Sharing
| Extend and share Zap Business Intelligence as much and as often as required. |
- Extended the online help
- Gadget
- Multi-tenancy
- Multilingual
- SharePoint integration
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Business Templates
| Re-usable business templates transform the way BI is used. They drastically reduce the time and technical resources needed to create and maintain custom analytics. |
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Technology
Deployment and integration
- The zero footprint web architecture ensures no intrusion on your users’ computers.
- A wizard-driven installer for server-side software seeks out pre-installed Microsoft components and versions to streamline installation.
- Analytics can be viewed via Outlook, exported to Excel, or integrated with SharePoint.
Application architecture
- Zap Business Intelligence is a self-contained, multi-tiered application based on Microsoft's .NET runtime and the ASP.NET framework.
- Utilises the Microsoft Windows Server platform and interoperates with Microsoft's SQL Server and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS).
- The solution comprises multiple components, including the client access layer, the presentation layer, business intelligence components, business intelligence core, and external components.
Below: The ability to understand your workforce and to easily plan for retirements, terminations and aging positions is just one of the many ways that Zap Technology’s rapid, yet flexible implementations aid in greater overall company success.
