New Generation Software, Inc. (NGS) offers four specially-designed business intelligence solutions for the Vormittag Associates, Inc. (VAI) S2K enterprise resource planning system:
- NGS-IQ Query, Reporting, and Analysis
- Real Time for S2K
- Decision Assist – Financial Performance for S2K
- Decision Assist – Business Performance for S2K
What is NGS-IQ?
NGS-IQ is a powerful query, report writing, analysis, and presentation solution designed for your IBM i (AS/400). You can use NGS-IQ to access the critical data captured by S2K and other applications on your IBM i and produce everything from traditional reports and displays to Web-based performance dashboards, Microsoft Excel workbooks, Word documents, Access tables, Adobe PDF files, and more.
The versatile NGS-IQ system satisfies the business intelligence needs of the entire enterprise while maintaining data integrity, compliance, and security. Users of IBM Query/400 instantly appreciate the way NGS-IQ virtually eliminates the need to write multiple queries and generate work files to produce useful reports. Windows and Web users find the graphical presentation qualities in NGS-IQ enable them to see business performance trends and exceptions quickly and customize reports without waiting for assistance from an IT staff member or consultant.
What is Real Time for S2K?
Real Time for S2K, developed entirely with NGS-IQ, is a set of ready-to-run business trend and sales performance dashboards, reports, and multidimensional OLAP models built directly over your S2K release 3.7.5 database. By licensing Real Time for S2K, you can immediately begin producing high quality, graphical output from your S2K data, even before you have learned how to use the NGS-IQ software. Real Time for S2K includes a Web portal user interface where users can launch and view all of the standard reports and presentations. When licensed with NGS-IQ and the NGS Business Performance Dashboard solution, Real Time for S2K can be customized and extended to better meet your unique performance management and reporting needs.
What is Decision Assist Solutions for S2K?
Sometimes, simply generating reports from your live production database can't provide you with the long-term perspective you need. Additionally, writing queries over a normalized enterprise-scale database like the one underlying S2K can be challenging due to the many files that must be joined for most reports. If you've experienced these challenges, Decision Assist – Financial Performance and Decision Assist – Business Performance for S2K are the answer.
Decision Assist – Financial Performance for S2K is a financial reporting solution for VAI customers who want to modernize and streamline their financial reporting and gain a new level of visibility into their financial position. Decision Assist – Financial Performance integrates with and enhances the presentation of your S2K G/L data by providing a Web portal, financial performance dashboards, pre-formatted multidimensional models, Excel spreadsheets and reports – all built over a high-performance, NGS-supplied DB2 data mart on the IBM i.
Decision Assist – Business Performance for S2K is a pre-defined, data warehouse and analytical reporting solution built specifically for S2K users. Developed entirely with NGS-IQ, this solution provides you with dozens of sales management, customer profitability, and inventory management reports, dashboards, presentations, and a thoroughly documented data warehouse on the IBM i.
These Decision Assist solutions include a set of back-end "ETL" (extraction, transformation, and loading) routines that load your S2K data into the financial and business performance data warehouses. You decide how frequently you need to run these jobs to keep the data warehouses current. Decision Assist provides you with a long-term perspective on KPI's. Additional benefits include simplified query development and high performance query processing for your end users because of the design of the data warehouses and the pre-processing performed during data warehouse updates.
What is the Relationship between VAI and NGS?
VAI and NGS have maintained a strategic partnership since 1998. The two companies have a large number of mutual customers who have found the NGS and VAI software highly complementary and easy to operate. NGS and VAI staff communicate regularly and share ideas to foster ongoing development.
What is the NGS Training Program for S2K Customers?
NGS offers a variety of training and consulting services to S2K customers ranging from two-day beginning user classes to comprehensive certification programs. Most customers can become highly proficient in the use of the NGS-IQ software and the custom S2K solutions described above after attending just a few NGS training classes.
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