Solver Announces the Release of BI360 Version 3.0, Adding More Productivity Enhancing Benefits to Its Excel-Based Reporting, Budgeting and Business Intelligence Suite
Los Angeles, CA, July 08, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Solver, Inc., a leading Business Intelligence (BI) solution provider, announced that it released Version 3.0 of BI360, its ‘Excel-based Business Intelligence’ suite, this week.
“With BI360 version 3.0 we have again listened to our customers and invested a great deal of time and resources to develop new features that will further help them streamline and automate their reporting and budgeting processes,” says Mike Applegate, Development Manager at Solver.
BI360 is an Excel-based reporting, planning, dashboard and data warehouse ‘BI’ suite that enables business users to manage their business more effectively through business user friendly tools that offer deep insight to drive informed decisions. BI360 modules include Reporting; for financial and operational reports, Planning; to budget, forecast and model, Dashboards; for graphical business analysis and Data Warehouse; to combine data from various sources into a single source for consolidated reporting, budgeting and analysis.
With the introduction of BI360 version 3.0, enhancements have been made to Reporting, Planning and Data Warehouse modules that further enable business users to manage access and gain insight on key information across their organization.
Highlights of the BI360 Version 3.0 release
BI360 3.0 Reporting:
· Dynamic multi-sheet reports: Automatically and dynamically create Excel workbooks with a ‘summary’ sheet and ‘individual’ sheets/reports representing any dimension or segment (i.e. Departments, Projects, Regions, Companies, Sales people, etc.) Benefit is a significant reduction in manual ‘cross organizational’ report generation, saving time and getting the right information to the right decision maker.
· Copying Designs: Ability to copy a complete BI360 report design ‘worksheet to worksheet’. Useful when reusing report designs in new reports, or when wanting to create ‘report books’ combining different reports into a single Excel Workbook
· Report Publisher: An automated report scheduling & distribution add-on module, it enables BI360 reports to be automatically generated and distributed in many different formats. Reports can be sent as attachments by e-mail, to a network location and to SharePoint portals.
· Security across companies: BI360 security settings can be copied between different companies being reported/budgeted on, reducing duplicative effort and streamlining security maintenance.
· New live integrations: BI360 is now integrated to Sage MAS 500 with expanded integrations points. BI360 integration to Sage X3 will release immediately following 3.0.
BI360 3.0 Planning:
· Refined budget input logic: Further streamlined budget data entry window is for quicker more efficient entry that includes ‘budgeting logic’ including spreads, trends and copy history.
· Quicker to implement: Improved configuration makes setting up budgets even more intuitive and flexible for administrators.
· More storage: Expanded storage options offer increased performance (i.e. save the budget faster): Choose to track entries ‘cell by cell’, or simply at the ‘sheet’ level.
BI360 3.0 Data Warehouse:
· The Look: Office 2010 ‘look & feel’ in the data warehouse management console for a familiar, intuitive and user-friendly experience.
· Currency conversion: New, advanced currency conversion features have been added.
· Trees: A new ‘tree builder’ creates hierarchies to run business rules. In a flash automate consolidation/elimination processes across multiple entities’ data stored in the BI360 Warehouse.
· Integration: Enhanced pre-packaged integrations available for all Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions as well as Sage.
About Solver, Inc.
Solver is a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner and the recipient of Microsoft's 2009 Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award. Leveraging Microsoft's market-leading Business Intelligence technology platforms (Microsoft SQL Server and Office Excel), they develop complementary Business Intelligence solutions that improve business users lives regarding reporting, planning, analysis and data management, and that transform an organization's daily work into deep insight that drive actionable results.
For more information visit us at http://www.solverusa.com
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“With BI360 version 3.0 we have again listened to our customers and invested a great deal of time and resources to develop new features that will further help them streamline and automate their reporting and budgeting processes,” says Mike Applegate, Development Manager at Solver.
BI360 is an Excel-based reporting, planning, dashboard and data warehouse ‘BI’ suite that enables business users to manage their business more effectively through business user friendly tools that offer deep insight to drive informed decisions. BI360 modules include Reporting; for financial and operational reports, Planning; to budget, forecast and model, Dashboards; for graphical business analysis and Data Warehouse; to combine data from various sources into a single source for consolidated reporting, budgeting and analysis.
With the introduction of BI360 version 3.0, enhancements have been made to Reporting, Planning and Data Warehouse modules that further enable business users to manage access and gain insight on key information across their organization.
Highlights of the BI360 Version 3.0 release
BI360 3.0 Reporting:
· Dynamic multi-sheet reports: Automatically and dynamically create Excel workbooks with a ‘summary’ sheet and ‘individual’ sheets/reports representing any dimension or segment (i.e. Departments, Projects, Regions, Companies, Sales people, etc.) Benefit is a significant reduction in manual ‘cross organizational’ report generation, saving time and getting the right information to the right decision maker.
· Copying Designs: Ability to copy a complete BI360 report design ‘worksheet to worksheet’. Useful when reusing report designs in new reports, or when wanting to create ‘report books’ combining different reports into a single Excel Workbook
· Report Publisher: An automated report scheduling & distribution add-on module, it enables BI360 reports to be automatically generated and distributed in many different formats. Reports can be sent as attachments by e-mail, to a network location and to SharePoint portals.
· Security across companies: BI360 security settings can be copied between different companies being reported/budgeted on, reducing duplicative effort and streamlining security maintenance.
· New live integrations: BI360 is now integrated to Sage MAS 500 with expanded integrations points. BI360 integration to Sage X3 will release immediately following 3.0.
BI360 3.0 Planning:
· Refined budget input logic: Further streamlined budget data entry window is for quicker more efficient entry that includes ‘budgeting logic’ including spreads, trends and copy history.
· Quicker to implement: Improved configuration makes setting up budgets even more intuitive and flexible for administrators.
· More storage: Expanded storage options offer increased performance (i.e. save the budget faster): Choose to track entries ‘cell by cell’, or simply at the ‘sheet’ level.
BI360 3.0 Data Warehouse:
· The Look: Office 2010 ‘look & feel’ in the data warehouse management console for a familiar, intuitive and user-friendly experience.
· Currency conversion: New, advanced currency conversion features have been added.
· Trees: A new ‘tree builder’ creates hierarchies to run business rules. In a flash automate consolidation/elimination processes across multiple entities’ data stored in the BI360 Warehouse.
· Integration: Enhanced pre-packaged integrations available for all Microsoft Dynamics ERP solutions as well as Sage.
About Solver, Inc.
Solver is a Microsoft Gold ISV Partner and the recipient of Microsoft's 2009 Business Intelligence Partner of the Year award. Leveraging Microsoft's market-leading Business Intelligence technology platforms (Microsoft SQL Server and Office Excel), they develop complementary Business Intelligence solutions that improve business users lives regarding reporting, planning, analysis and data management, and that transform an organization's daily work into deep insight that drive actionable results.
For more information visit us at http://www.solverusa.com
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