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Reduce risk, lower TCO with ProfitBase 2009


Johannesburg, 16 Sep 2009

Companies wanting to consolidate data from various business systems in order to create one view of performance would do well to consider ProfitBase 2009, instead of opting for expensive, long duration, custom development, says Anton Jacobsz, Sales Executive at IT systems, software, hardware and consulting services provider, Datacentrix, a ProfitBase Authorised Reseller.

A scalable, rapidly configured, graphical, data warehouse and OLAP Cube deployment accelerator for Microsoft SQL Server, ProfitBase 2009 helps to speed up and simplify a company's data warehouse project with ready-to-use templates.

"This means that users can quickly connect and extract data from their business systems, create a relational data warehouse, and build and update OLAP cubes. In fact, if a connector or cube template isn't available, ProfitBase 2009 Management Studio can be utilised to build a new connector or cube within a few hours," he explains.

ProfitBase 2009 is integrated with the Microsoft's Business Intelligence technology stack leveraging Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 to normalise and consolidate data retrieved from an organisation's business systems and deliver performance information to decision-makers using Microsoft Reporting Services, Excel, Office PerformancePoint, Server 2007 and other popular OLAP browser, query and analysis, dashboard, scorecard and reporting tools.

"This integration enables businesses to leverage their existing investments in these Microsoft solutions."

The ProfitBase 2009 Management Studio is a rapid configuration, easy to use, graphical environment for building data warehouses, data marts and OLAP cubes for business intelligence (BI) solutions. Ready to use business templates for OLAP Cube Measure Groups, such as finance, sales, inventory and so on, and data source connectors, including Microsoft Dynamics AX, accelerate deployment times further. These templates are quickly deployed and easily modified to meet each solution's specific requirements.

"The ability to capture knowledge, store and re-use it whenever it is needed is a constant challenge and, when mastered, delivers higher productivity, reduced risk and, ultimately, bottom line profits. ProfitBase 2009 Management Studio allows BI professionals to develop BI solutions and then to save components of the solution as templates for use in future solutions. It's so easy to do, that in seconds the work is captured and ready to use again and again.

"The solution dramatically reduces the time it takes to build solutions by between 60% and 80% when compared to standard custom development Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) tools," Jacobsz states.

ProfitBase 2009 Management Studio includes a powerful dimension management capability where users can build dimensions based on difference data sources and can drag and drop dimension elements to design and organise reporting structures on the fly. This is especially useful when consolidating data from different companies and when common dimensions across different business systems are required. The product also includes a graphical tool for scheduling automatic updates to a data warehouse or data mart and OLAP cubes. The powerful ProfitBase Server automatically executes updates based on the schedule.

"All of these features equate to reduced risk and faster time to value for users," Jacobsz explains. "In addition, the data warehouse stays synchronised with a business's information requirements because it's configurable and updated in a few hours rather than weeks or months."

For more information on ProfitBase 2009, please contact Datacentrix on (012) 348-7555.

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Stephanie Reynolds
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