MIS OVERVIEW

Single Source of Truth

Key business information is usually stored in relational databases for each of your organisation’s transaction processing systems (ERP, CRM, Payroll, etc) which are not well suited to advanced planning and analysis. Furthermore these databases often have complex interactions, inconsistent hierarchies and data.

MIS DecisionWare manages the whole extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process for data from multiple sources. Our solutions provide a consistent, reliable view of the business.

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MIS OVERVIEW

One Platform for all Analytic Needs

All solutions based on MIS DecisionWare, whether out-of-the-box or custom designed, access the same software platform. That means fewer interfaces, less work, lower costs and better information for you.

MIS software is fully scalable, which means no matter what your needs, you are ensured a perfect fit. With MIS you only need to invest in the components that you need right now. As your needs change you can easily extend the functionality through additional custom solutions or packaged applications (e.g. enterprise planning). So the road to streamlining your corporate performance management is shorter than you ever thought possible!

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MIS OVERVIEW

MIS and Microsoft

Excel; SQL Server Analysis Services; Reporting Services; Sharepoint Portal. If your company already banks on Microsoft technologies, you can leverage this investment to create best-of-breed solutions with MIS DecisionWare

Having worked together with Microsoft for the past decade, MIS belongs to its exclusive group of Gold Certified Partners specialising in Business Intelligence.

Custom solutions tailored to your organisation’s specific needs or out-of-the-box applications. With MIS, the choice is yours! MIS DecisionWare provides a central platform for gathering and modelling of business data, including:

Enterprise Planning - A pre-built application for sophisticated budgeting and forecasting that eliminates the risk and complexity associated with traditional spreadsheet approaches. It supports best practices like continuous budgeting, rolling forecasts, what-if scenario planning, unlimited versions and workflow controls.

Custom BI/Reporting - Do you need an intuitive reporting and analysis solution that focuses on quality, not quantity? Looking to build a tailored, self-service information management system for various target groups? MIS DecisionWare provides a highly configurable, intuitive environment for delivery of important information - anytime, anywhere!

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OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Real-time planning, forecasting, reporting, tracking, & analysis

Applix's performance management solutions enable companies to extend performance management across the entire enterprise by providing answers to complex but vital questions -- not only in finance, but in all operational departments (such as manufacturing or supply chain), customer facing, and workforce functions, providing the enterprise with a 360-degree view of its performance against goals.

With TM1, in real-time you can plan, forecast, track, report and analyze across your business operations. No other solution today gives you the power to perform your business modeling - on highly complex, large data sets - in real-time as TM1 does. And this is critical when business is complex and unpredictable.

Moreover, because TM1 is a unified application, a complete picture of what’s happening across the enterprise, you can continuously measure and monitor your business activities and processes. These activities include all performance across all operations such as marketing campaign analysis, asset management, capacity modeling, quality management and control, materials resource planning, customer relationship management, and human resource management.

And IT departments love Applix TM1. TM1 is easily integrated into your existing environment, supporting standards and key platforms. TM1 is highly scalable and complements relational databases and ERP systems, helping you extend your investments in them.

Key Features of TM1:

Complex modeling – the flexibility to perform real-time “what-if” modeling to meet changing business strategies. TM1’s read/write capability allows you to enter any amount of data and change it as many times as you want, immediately see the changes and compare with historical data or other projections. Applix is the only vendor that can perform this read/write capability for your models.
Unique memory-based technology for real-time. TM1 does all the calculating in RAM, providing the rapid response times necessary for operational performance management - up to a million times faster – compared to other applications that store their data on a disk drive. Read more about managing data at RAM speed.
Scalability - TM1’s 64-bit capability, combined with its ability to support multiple servers, multiple cubes, multi-threaded processing and multi-user data updating, is designed to scale in order to support increased users and/or increased availability.
Excel and Web interfaces - Perform analysis, view reports, and update data using either Excel or Web user interfaces. Business users leverage their existing Excel skill set to author, publish, and deploy web pages.
Integration with critical systems - Import data from ERP systems such as SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, or from other data warehouses. Learn more.
Multi-user collaboration - Hundreds of users can simultaneously connect to and use TM1 for real-time updates and audit trails.
Microsoft Certification - TM1 not only provides an easy-to-use interface through Excel, but it also works with ease in the Microsoft environment, supporting its platforms, including high end, and SQL database format as well as its database connectivity.