A Complete Business Intelligence Solution in your Desktop

With the release of Quella Business Intelligence Solution, EA C&S wishes to help companies and individuals to decentralise and reduce the cost of data processing and data analysis. Decentralisation of such tasks is particularly relevant for large companies with existing Business Intelligence Solutions, while the cost of a Business Intelligence tool is more significant for organisations and freelance consultants without such a tool.

Organisations with Existing Business Intelligence Solutions

While many orgainisations centralise business data in large data warehouses in order to offer on-line reports, the need for mobility in the modern work force is continiously expanding. There is of course no direct contradiction between these two facts as Internet and wireless connections are to be found almost everywhere. However, there are two downsides in such an architecture.

1) Pre-defined reports offered on-line inevitably have restrictions in terms of which data is presented and how it is presented. Each end-user has on the other hand own preferences that general on-line reports cannot always satisfy. In addition, modifications to existing reports or the creation of new ones may imply to go through lengthy ordering processes.

2) The speed of the analysis is as fast as the network connection. This can be particularly annoying and contra-productive when working with reports either through wireless connections or heavily loaded intranets.

Organisations without Business Intelligence Solutions and Freelance Consultants

Many small and medium size organisations do not profit from the benefits Business Intelligence has to offer, mainly because of the investment required by traditional tools. The same is true for many freelance consultants whose possibilities to offer Business Intelligence services to their customers, are reduced by the costs of the necessary tools. In addition, the trade-off between cost and functionality can be too significant for a low-cost tool to be of any real help.

Consequently, Business Intelligence projects very often are not even considered or are quickly abandoned. The possible solutions are either too costly or too poor in functionality to be of any interest.

The Solution

Quella Business Intelligence Solution opens for end-users the opportunity to access, manipulate and analyse data with a combination of freedom, functionality and low cost which no traditional BI-solution can offer. This is offered by Quella Business Intelligence Solution thanks to the following key features:

1) The Desktop Data Warehouse is small enough to be stored in any stationary or portable computer. This means that end-users have total control of the data they extract to their Data Warehouses.

2) The Engine behind the Desktop Data Warehouse is powerful and flexible enough to allow almost any imaginable operation on the stored data.

3) The design of a Business Intelligence Solution can be exported to a single physical file. This feature makes it extremely easy to share a design with colleagues or to sell it to customers.

4) All reports are saved as single physical files. This fact makes end-users completely independant of corporate networks and gives them complete freedom to wotk off-line. OLAP-reports do not need any OLAP-server and List Reports can be used as regular spread sheet files.

5) No additional servers or components are required. Everything that is needed to start profiting from Business Intelligence is delivered in two single self-extracting files. All needed external components are standard Microsoft components already installed in the Windows platform.