The NGS Business Performance Dashboard is a complete information delivery solution that gives an organization the ability to view, present, and interact with live business data in a flexible, graphical format from a Web browser. Presentations can include charts, tables, gauges, maps, and other visualization tools to help make business information easy to see, understand, and analyze at a glance.
Financial reports, management scorecards, sales performance presentations, board-level reports, and other critical information can be quickly transformed from static numbers into dynamic, interactive presentations that support filtering along various business dimensions, what-if analysis, and more. No programming is required. In fact, most dashboard designers are business analysts with Microsoft® Excel skills and an understanding of management’s preference for monitoring business performance. End users with Web browser navigation skills can point and click their way through the dashboards with ease.
What’s Included
The NGS Business Performance Dashboard consists of an application development module for those who wish to create dashboards and presentations, a license to distribute the output to end users, plus a starter kit of over 150 dashboards to help better manage these areas:
- Sales
- Customer Relationship Management
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Customer Service
- Inventory
- Marketing
- Production
Each of these sample NGS Business Performance Dashboard modules comes with the supporting files needed to support further development and deployment. Customization is easy and the results are stunning.
How It Works
The NGS Business Performance Dashboard leverages NGS-IQ™, the System i (AS/400) DB2 database, and Microsoft Office. NGS-IQ is used to extract data from DB2 and create the XML files and Excel sheets linked to the dashboards. Users design the dashboards by choosing the graphic components to present the data. Then, they export the dashboards as Macromedia Flash files that can be displayed, distributed via e-mail, or published on any Web server. Dashboards also can be exported to Microsoft PowerPoint™ and HTML. End users can instantly take advantage of the dashboard design to view charts and maps as well as filter and analyze the data. Users can design their dashboards to update automatically when they run NGS-IQ to update the XML file, or manually when they change the Excel file without using XML. By combining the power of NGS-IQ with IBM or third-party job scheduling software, these refreshes can be automated to satisfy unique business needs.
Software Requirements
The NGS Business Performance Dashboard development module requires the NGS-IQ enterprise reporting and business intelligence solution, Windows 2000 or XP, Microsoft Excel Professional Edition 2003, and the royalty-free Macromedia Flash Player software. End users can be running older versions of Windows but need a Web browser and the Flash Player software to view the dashboards.
About NGS
NGS, an advanced member of IBM Partnerworld, has been providing information solutions for IBM’s midrange computing platforms since 1982. NGS’s business intelligence and enterprise reporting solutions are used worldwide by thousands of private and public sector enterprises of all sizes. These organizations have successfully deployed the NGS-IQ solution to meet data access needs ranging from query and reporting to OLAP and data warehousing. NGS is recognized as an IBM ServerProven™ solution signifying its proven ability to deliver value and a strong return on investment for customers.
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