NGS-IQ from New Generation Software, Inc. (NGS) takes you far beyond query and reporting to give senior executives, analysts, power users, and IT professionals a single, integrated path to the potential value of the IBM System i (AS/400).
Business intelligence software can yield a tremendous return on investment if it is used to present meaningful information in the format most useful to the intended user. The versatility of NGS-IQ makes this possible. Whether you are most comfortable pointing and clicking your way through a Web portal or dashboard, slicing and dicing multidimensional models, analyzing spreadsheets, looking at reports, or developing complex queries, NGS-IQ has the power and control to make you more productive.
Proven effective at thousands of customer sites in virtually every industry, the versatile NGS-IQ business intelligence suite easily allows users to view real-time data on the System i while working from a Web browser or Windows applications like Microsoft Excel, Access, and Word.
Unlike many competing solutions, NGS-IQ is optimized for the highly scalable and reliable System i. NGS-IQ can simultaneously support Windows, Web-browser, and 5250 users without requiring additional servers, middleware, or databases. A new addition to the NGS-IQ suite is IQ Client™. This is a Windows "smart client" application that lets you create and modify NGS-IQ queries offline - without a System i or Internet connection - in a graphical point-and-click, drag-and-drop interface.
Business Performance Dashboard
The NGS Business Performance Dashboard is a complete dashboard development and deployment solution that that allows your users to view and interact with dynamic, graphical Web presentations of KPIs, scorecards, trends, and more. NGS-IQ uses the power of XML to let you schedule updates of these presentations from your System i or Windows server. Over 100 ready-to-use dashboard templates are provided.
Multidimensional OLAP Analysis
The SmartView module of NGS-IQ offers users the ability to transform reports into portable, multi-dimensional presentations with dynamic drill-down from summary to detail, user-defined critical-value highlighting, pivoting across business dimensions, and presentation quality charts and graphs. SmartView lets users present, but not change, the data that underlies their presentation so you can trust that what you are seeing is based on actual business data extracted directly from the System i.
Data Warehouse/Data Mart Development
NGS-IQ can serve as your complete, end-to-end business intelligence solution. NGS-IQ supports virtually unlimited data extraction, consolidation, cleansing, and transformation. NGS also provides packaged data mart models with analytical presentations and reports for wholesale distribution, healthcare, and financial reporting. These thoroughly documented data marts help managers quickly visualize potential uses of NGS-IQ and speed implementation.
Reliability, Versatility, and Security
IT professionals find that NGS-IQ's impressive capabilities, performance, and security allow them to tackle even the most challenging database reporting and extraction jobs with confidence. NGS-IQ gives you the extra function required to produce useful reports from a single query instead of relying on a string of queries for the final report. You can easily define conditionally calculated fields, calculate values from summary totals, and generate rankings, running totals, and more. NGS-IQ features a Join Wizard to help you join DB2 files correctly and the option of assigning more descriptive names to DB2 files and fields that would otherwise be difficult to understand.
Users can customize their own reports by entering variable criteria for selecting records, calculating fields, and delivering the finished report. Authorized users working locally or remotely can quickly generate Excel spreadsheets, Access tables, Word documents, OLAP presentations, drillable HTML reports for Web presentation, PDF files, and more. E-mail and FTP functions are built-in to support information sharing.
Training and Consulting
NGS offers customers and business partners a full range of training and consulting services. We strongly encourage new customers to take advantage of the many years of NGS-IQ, data warehousing and business intelligence experience possessed by our staff.
About NGS
NGS was founded in 1982 and is based in Sacramento, California. The company is an Advanced Member of IBM PartnerWorld, maintains a strong quality assurance program, and consistently enhances its products to ensure it yields long-term value to its customers. NGS-IQ is an IBM-approved ServerProven solution.
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