LiveDashBoard features

A unique approach

Until now, business intelligence tools were based on the same process: I design, I schedule and I publish in a selected format. Forget that ! With LiveDashBoard, the first web 2.0 business intelligence application, it's time for a real time collaborative business intelligence.

LiveDashBoard allows you to create business dashboards really interactive, to share them with other users and even to comment a situation in real time to collaborate for team working.

No multiple module to install and to setup, nothing to install on desktops nor laptops, LiveDashBoard propose you a brand new approach for all your business dashboard projects ranging from 10 to thousands users.

Report design

The report designer would use a powerful and ergonomic WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) web interface, where he can easily place analysis axis, measures and any calculation. Simple lists, cross tabulations, charting, advanced calculation, sections, filters, formats, ranking, etc. Every needed functions are available by a simple mouse clic !

Furthermore, LiveDashBoard proposes dynamic links functions allowing you to define zooms over one or more axis : by this way, users can navigate through data using "drill-up" and "drill-down". All analysis scenarios are possible in one click against a simple relational database !

Dashboard design

Two or three drag and drops, here is your first business dashboard !

A business intelligence portal should be a place for a better collaboration across your organization and must have a perfect user interface. PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard allows you to design quickly professional dashboards including reports, alerts and business indicators. You can even include a balanced scorecard strategy map, external HTML pages etc.

With real time data coming from several sources in high impact interactive pages, employees are connected in real time to business activity performance for an at-a-glance understanding and faster decision cycles.

Alerts

What do you think about being alerted when critical thresholds have been met ? With PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard, you are able to set these thresholds and let the system automatically monitor your key indicators. Users are alerted in their dashboards, but by email or SMS too !

By the way, any employee is sure to be noticed in real time and have the important information when it appears ! No time to waste to seek the right information and to check it out every day, managers are aware about what happens in their activity when it happens.

Fully integrated in data import scenario, these alert functions can send reports by email, avoid duplicate message and generate message for different users from a single event.

Mobile access

Stay connected to your business, even when your business bring you far away from your office! Do You wish to consult your key indicators, your inventory levels or your sale orders in real time? Nothing simpler with LiveDashBoard : just enter your PDA or smartphone web browser technical characteristics and that's done. It provides LiveDashBoard reports with no need to re-author for wireless devices.

As a real mobile portal, PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard lets you navigate in the same environment, thanks to common administration management features! Without any local installation, you make possible information sharing wherever you are.

Business metrics, Balanced Scorecards

An objective, not measured, is only a good intention. A measured trend is the indispensable tool which enables you to react in time.

Business Performance Management is also based on the empowerment of everyone. By giving to each person the right vision of their activity, it allows them to take the right decisions at each organizational level. Furthermore, BPM only makes sense if dashboards and indicators are coherent and linked to the flow chart: the time of personal spreadsheets based on non controlled data is over!

Compliant with BSC, TQM or Six Sigma methodology, PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard allows you to create business indicators on every level of your organization and to deliver them using business metrics panel and strategy map. If a performance metric or measure exceeds or falls below a user-defined threshold, managers are alerted and can drill-down to find out the causes and take actions.

Data merging

Data dictionaries represent data item collections which are describing all physical and logical databases objects. Thanks to a graphical web interface, administrators can easily create data catalogs whatever databases used for storage. Without any scripts or IT stuff, you can select and merge heterogeneous data.

PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard allows you to setup multi lingual descriptions on every element in order to make them clearly understandable for report designers. Flexible and powerful, LiveDashBoard offers you the possibility to insert business rules you have defined : that makes possible to link your data with your organization in a coherent way.

Enterprise portal integration, spreadsheet and PDF exports

For an optimal user experience, LiveDashBoard provides PDF and Excel™ exports of reports and dashboards.

Need to go further ? PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard provides "portlets JSR-168" you can include into enterprise portal such as IBM WebSphere Portal®, BEA WebLogic Portal®, jBoss Portal. That lets users view and interact with LiveDashBoard reports directly from your company portal.

In addition, users can be notified instantly when alert and indicators states are changing. PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard RSS feeds deliver updates and notifications directly to your desktop through the news reader software program of your choice.

Administration

A BI project needs a robust and powerful security management because you have to make sure the right people have access to the right information at the right time. Using workspaces, user profiles, entities and group, you can easily define all right managements rules you need across your enterprise for 10, 100, 10000 or more users. You are able to setup access rights on every level of your organization and on every object : reports, dashboards, indicators, data item etc. This enables single sign-on and secure access to your business intelligence and scorecarding content.

PRELYTIS LiveDashBoard gives to administrators management tools in order to immediately see connected users and follow your BI activity history. Object version management is available too.