Context! 5.2 Business Intelligence Software Enterprise Dashboarding & Analysis

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1 Context! 5.2 Business Intelligence Software Enterprise Dashboarding & Analysis What do you want to know today? Do you have the answers? It s a scene played out in meeting rooms across the world. You walk into the meeting, the CEO asks you that critical why question - and you don t know the answer; or maybe by the time you get the answer, the information is of little or no use. Sound familiar? Get to the answer - quickly The ultimate test of any organization is in its ability to quickly understand what is happening and why it s happening. Having the right information at your fingertips at the right time can make the difference between ultimate success and ultimate disaster. Work without boundaries At EMANIO we believe that people become inspired, more productive and more engaged when they are unbound by the artificial constraints placed on them by poorly designed software. This core belief drives us to create software that works the way you do, freeing you from the constraints of poor user interfaces and features that are difficult to use and understand. This is most critical in the world of data analysis, and it s the fundamental concept behind our Context! dashboarding and reporting platform. EMANIO Context!, agility by design The dirty secret of the business intelligence industry, of course, is that business intelligence deployments have the worst failure rate of any enterprise deployment type - nearly 80%, according to a recent Gartner study. How do you prevent disastrous results like that? At the heart of the problem lie platforms designed around the base assumption that your business will conform to the requirements of the software in order to achieve success. This model ultimately leads to low usage, failed deployments and exorbitant total cost of ownership (TCO). Work without boundaries

2 KEY BENEFITS Get to your information - FAST. 100% point-and-click dashboarding and reporting. Free yourself from the report bottleneck with true self-service BI. Anytime, Any place. 100% browser-based dashboarding means you can get to your reports anywhere! Add ipad and Mobile apps and gain true anytime BI. Eliminate the warehouse. Attach directly do data sources, build business models and leverage in-memory analytics quickly and easily. Social BI for better insights Engage in discussions with peers and employees, comment on reports and share information seamlessly outside your BI platform. Eliminate Failure. A BI platform that installs in under 2 hours and deploys to thousands in just seconds. That s true ROI. Advanced Analysis,no SQL A 100% script-free environment means that even the most advanced analysis is possible without ever using a single line of SQL code. Data Security - Built in Report once, distribute anywhere with a deep security model that shows data to who needs it when they need it. Advanced Visuals Get the right visual every time with support for GIS, Heat Maps, Google Maps and over 40 more chart types. Empower self-service. Reduce information bottlenecks while eliminating information overload with self-service BI and a deep report approval model. At EMANIO we believe that software should conform to the way companies and users work and behave - not the other way around. Context! provides the intuitive ease of use and the sophisticated features necessary to free your staff, giving them the power to analyze data, create advanced reports, collaborate dynamically - all through a unified interface that costs a fraction to deploy vs. traditional platforms and that leverages modern technologies like Enterprise Java and a full Web 2.0 AJAX interface. Get started in under 2 hours We built Context! to be as easy to deploy as possible. That means we included a full copy of Apache Tomcat - built right into the installer. Run the wizard, answer a few questions, and within one to two hours your BI platform will be up and running and ready to attach to its first data source. Don t let the ease of use fool you, however, Context! is built on an enterprise-grade platform with support for clustering, load-balancing and in-memory data analysis. That means you will have a platform that can scale from two to tens of thousands seamlessly. It s enterprise BI without the enterprise headaches. Bring the Cloud behind the firewall How good is your BI platform if you can t have access to it when you need it? Context! is a 100% browser-based BI platform. That means that all you need to access it is a standard web browser. Administrators, report writers, analysts, users - it doesn t matter - it s all browserbased, all the time. That, however, doesn t just make it readily accessible, it also means that deploying it to users can be done in seconds! Context! truly is BI any time, anywhere. Mobile BI, done right Mobile business intelligence is all the rage. But how truly valuable is it if you have to re-format your charts and dashboards just to make them available to your mobile clients? With Context! it s as easy as it can be. Any report can be accessed by the native ipad and Mobile clients - no fuss, no work, no mess. Better still, because Context! is 100% browserbased, it means you can log in right from your ipad or iphone browser and use the system just as you would at your desk!

3 Add users, comment on reports, engage in discussions, send reports to clients as PDFs - it s that easy. Productivity without manuals If a software platform is truly intuitive, it should be so easy to use and learn that most users would hardly ever have need for a manual. With Context! it truly is that simple. But don t let the ease of use fool you, Context! is also a sophisticated enterprisegrade BI platform that can give you all the information analysis and data management capabilities you will need for years to come. The browser-based interface is attractive and designed to minimize the steps necessary to perform just about any operation. Maximum security and Enterprise scalability Context! doesn t just satisfy the usability requirements of your business users. Context! provides you with a multi-tiered security framework that can be fully integrated into Enterprise security models like LDAP or Active Directory (AD), or that can be deployed fully by itself, giving you the flexibility of a user/role/group based security architecture that ensures users will get the value they need without having to sacrifice security. And because of the depth of security it means you can finally build one report that can be delivered to all users - automatically exposing and hiding data based on each user s individual security policy. Social BI, the backbone of collaboration At EMANIO we understand that decisions are not made in a vacuum. Gain more insight from your charts and reports by engaging with other users in dynamic discussions, polls and surveys, centered around your data. Full report commenting features allow you to post and reply to comments at a report level, while dynamic report delivery and ing lets you send information to users when it s relevant - not just on a set schedule. The right visual, for the right job Context! lets you benefit from over 44 different chart-types. With such a wealth of report and data visualizations you can be sure that you will always benefit from the right visual for the right type of data. From basic chart types like Bar graphs, Pie charts and Area charts, to esoteric Financial graphs, GIS and Google-Map reports and Radar charts, Context! gives you a wealth of options to visualize your data - all without having to buy expensive add-on components. Dynamic Interactivity The benefit of any BI system can only be revealed by how easily users can leverage data to make critical decisions. Context! makes it as simple as possible with a full set of interactive and dynamic controls that let you see data from different perspectives - all with just a few clicks. Link reports for greater depth of information, reaggregate data on the fly - all without ever having to use a single line of SQL code. Broad Database Support Context! leverages the modern technologies like JDBC to provide maximum flexibility and connectivity. Today Context! provides support for the following systems: DB2 Universal Database 8.1+ Oracle Database 9i+ PostgreSQL 8.0 Progress 9.1 MS SQL Server Ingres MySQL 4+ HSQL MDX compliant cubes ODBC OpenEdge AS/400 Interbase Universe Firebird Cache DB Pervasive Sybase ASE Sybase Anywhere Sybase IQ SQLite Derby Teradata H2 FoxPro Lotus Notes Microsoft Access Microsoft Excel & CSV

4 Welcome to Page Title! File Edit View History Bookmarks Tools Help Done Advanced analysis, SQL optional The true power of any BI platform is in its ability to allow your most advanced analysts to become truly productive quickly and easily. Context! makes this simple with a noscripting interface that makes advanced data analysis available at the click of a button. Rank data, apply statistical measures, find outliers of information - all with just a few clicks of the mouse. With Context! your business analyst s life is spent analyzing data instead of learning arcane programming languages. Eliminate the warehouse Context! finally frees you from the costly binds that are the data warehouse. Because Context! can connect directly to production data sources, it can act as a data warehouse itself. Add in-memory analysis support and you get the perfect 1-2 punch to enable truly on-demand analysis that happens in as close to real time as possible. But don t worry about impacting production system performance. Context! gives your administrators a full set of controls to manage how many report requests are sent, how much data to return and how often to refresh data caches - all without ever impacting the experience of your dashboard and report users. Already have data cubes you want to use? Not to worry - Context! has you covered there too. Web Server business models that your users will need for reporting is just as simple as creating a report. Leverage already available SQL views or build them from scratch using SQL code - or better yet - build them using the 100% point-and-click view designer that will make building business models simple, intuitive and fast. Best of all, because at EMANIO we understand that managing a tight ship means controlling costs, we made it possible to enable in-memory caching at the view level - so that only the most important Application Server business models are cached in server RAM, the ones that need the most performance, freeing you to cache views that are not as critical to less expensive disk-based databases. One-Click Replication User Data (CSV, XLS...) Sales (CRM, SFA...) Order Entry (SAP, PeopleSoft) B2B (EDI, XML...) Manufacturing (SAP, Oracle...) Data Warehouse (SAP, MS...) Context! makes your IT staff s life even easier with an XML-based content import/export feature that makes system migrations and backups a snap. Simply select the reports or dashboards to export and Context! will figure out the rest - automatically determining what business views, data source connections and associated reports need to be exported. Next, click the export button and Context! will create a single XML file that contains all your data source, data view and report and dashboard definitions - so that replicating your entire BI infrastructure takes a few hours instead of months. Trusted, Supported Any product is only as valuable as the organization that stands behind it. For nearly two decades EMANIO has powered supply chain integration and B2B commerce for organizations of all sizes across the globe. With support plans that are flexible and affordable enough for any organization and any budget, EMANIO provides the backing you need to ensure that your system is always available, giving you peace of mind and security in your investment. Build business models in minutes Context! makes life easier for everyone, especially the administrators. Building the

5 Technical Specifications supported platforms EMANIO Context! requires a Java Application server and comes bundled with Apache Tomcat, but can be run on any compatible app server including WebSphere. MS Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 MS Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows 7 Redhat Linux or other compatible Linux systems Supported data sources Flat File Text MS Excel (Pre 2007) MS Access (Pre 2007) Database DB2 Universal Database 8.1+, Oracle Database 9i+, PostgreSQL 8.0, Progress 9.1 MS SQL Server 2000+, Ingres MySQL 4+, HSQL, MDX compliant cubes, ODBC, OpenEdge, AS/400, Interbase, Universe, Firebird, Cache DB, Pervasive, Sybase ASE Sybase Anywhere, Sybase IQ, SQLite Derby, Teradata, H2, FoxPro, Lotus Notes Minimum Client Requirements Operating Systems MS Windows , Linux, Mac OS X Browser Firefox 2.x+, MSIE 6+, WebKit 2.0+ (Safari, Google Chrome)

6 Work without boundaries Copyright EMANIO, Inc EMANIO, Inc San Francisco, CA Produced in the United States of America Summer 2010, All Rights Reserved EMANIO, the EMANIO logo, Insight! and Context! are trademarks of EMANIO, Inc. Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Other company, product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. Any representation of time required to become familiar with EMANIO applications and to be able to achieve constructive output (learning time) is for evaluation and comparative purposes only. Actual learning time will vary with each individual, EMANIO makes no express warranty as to the ability of each individual to adapt to the product in a pre-determined period of time or his/her ability to use it effectively. References in this publication to EMANIO products or services do not imply that EMANIO intends to make them available in all countries in which EMANIO operates. Offerings are subject to change, extension or withdrawal without notice. Other company, product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. The EMANIO home page on the Internet can be found at emanio.com