Zap today announced the South Africa release of Zap Business Intelligence 2012, the next generation of its Web-based business intelligence (BI) software for the Microsoft SQL Server platform.
Zap helps companies to know their business with advanced capabilities, ready-made analytics packs, and a unique productivity tool that drastically reduces set-up and implementation time. With purpose-built solutions for SYSPRO, Pastel Evolution, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, AX, NAV and GP, Zap Business Intelligence is used by companies around the world.
“The 2012 release provides customers with improvements in analysing and viewing data, so they can quickly gain insight into performance,” said Managing Director South Africa, Jeff Solomon. “We're also expanding how BI consumers can access these insights to ensure that BI becomes a pervasive part of everyday decision-making.”
Foodservice distributor NAFDA uses Zap to analyse data from its Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP system, and said that Zap Business Intelligence was ideal for exposing new insights. “Zap Business Intelligence suits the needs of diverse organisations relying on BI to improve operational efficiency,” said CFO Barry Hough. “The speed of the upgraded solution, combined with a focus on usability, allows us to quickly stay on top of our business. Powerful new analysis capabilities will help us to manage proactively and improve our competitive advantage.”
As well as providing expert pre-built analytics and an advanced visualisation engine, Zap provides Zap CubeXpress, a patent-pending productivity tool which drastically reduces set-up time and allows for near-real-time reporting. Using Zap CubeXpress, VIS Director of IT Eric Lee was able to start delivering executive reporting within the first week of implementation. “Our cube took an hour to process for the first time, and we had hundreds of out-of-the-box dashboards to get us started,” said Eric. “Within one week we'd knocked off the top 10 reports our executive team was screaming for. Within three weeks we presented customised dashboards to the executive team.”
Key features of Zap Business Intelligence and Zap CubeXpress include:
* Pre-built analytics packs - 100s of analytics designed by experts for your department and industry, including finance, manufacturing, retail, and wholesale and distribution.
* Fast deployment - with Zap CubeXpress save thousands of hours and dollars with a wizard-driven process.
* Web-based front-end - use one central Web interface to create all your analytics. Users have no software to install and you can access BI anywhere you have a Web browser.
* Developer-free - Zap's drag and drop interface lets users create their own analysis with truly self-service BI.
* Tight integration - purpose-built solutions for SYSPRO, Pastel Evolution, and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, AX, NAV and GP.
* Secure - Zap automatically adopts your Dynamics and Active Directory security roles. Claims-based authentication is supported for security in the cloud.
Zap Business Intelligence is available now throughout South Africa and surrounding countries.
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Zap creates business intelligence (BI) solutions that help improve corporate performance. Its software is based on the Microsoft SQL Server platform and is used globally by mid-market and enterprise organisations across most major industries. Zap also offers a range of out-of-the-box analytics for Microsoft Dynamics AX, NAV and CRM. Zap Technology is proud to have been named Microsoft ISV/Software solutions Partner of the Year 2009, and Microsoft Country Partner of the Year 2010. Zap has offices worldwide, including Johannesburg, South Africa. For more information, visit: http://www.zaptechnology.com.
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