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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FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ANALYSIS

Simple, fast, accurate financial reporting and analysis for effective decision-making

Applix TM1 provides a single high performance platform for planning, budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting and analysis. Its unique real-time approach to consolidating, viewing and editing vast volumes of multidimensional data is an undisputable differentiator in the OLAP market. With TM1 you spend more time on valuable analysis while improving business performance across your organization.

Financial reporting and analysis with TM1 allows you to improve your decision-making. You can report and perform analysis on any type of data, produce any type of report, and deliver those reports to anyone at anytime. Maximize your margins while still meeting customer demands.

Applix TM1 ranked top among major business intelligence vendors for better business decisions, goal achievement, fastest implementation time and faster, more accurate reporting by The OLAP Survey 6.

Key Features:

Web-based reporting – create real-time, interactive web-based reports, charts and graphs directly from within Microsoft Excel
"What-if" analyses - Change input values and recalculate them on-the-fly, in real-time
Dynamic slicing – drill up or down on consolidated elements, suppress zero, freeze rows or columns, expand above on rows, expand left on columns
Element Based Formatting – Define Excel styles based on each element; define multiple formats for each dimension
Dashboards and Scorecards – Measure and monitor your financial and nonfinancial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to guide your organization to its business goals
Collaborative, Decision-Making workflow – schedule alerts, reports and delivery of reports
Integration with Microsoft Reporting Services
A single BPM platform for your enterprise reporting and analysis processes including planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidations

Benefits:

Makes better business decisions, dramatically improves responsiveness, effectiveness, and competitive advantage
Shared data and business rules allow for more accurate and flexible analyses
Leverages Excel and the web to minimize training costs
Ability for users to easily get more detail with the click of a button
Saves times by defining reports once, even when new elements are added to a dimension
Standard styles can be re-used from report to report rather than recreating
Ability to put multiple slices of information together on a page that are linked by a common dimension
Compliance and ad hoc reporting
Reduced time and man power for monthly reporting
Greater access to reports across management levels
Automated audit trails
Reports generated over the web
Supports all reporting standards including GAAP, FASB, IAS, and IFRS

Components:

TM1 Web enables users to quickly and easily create real-time web-based reports and charts directly from Microsoft Excel
TM1 Report Server enables read-only users to view current data
Turbo Integrator, TM1’s capability for data integration, streamlines the process of loading disparate corporate data by performing fast, flexible data loads
TM1 multi-cube OLAP engine with the horsepower for quickly consolidating, reporting and analyzing your financial data