BI Quick Launch for JD Edwards is a suite of business intelligence content comprising a metadata layer that will accelerate your business intelligence implementation and simplify your development cycles for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and World. If you are already implementing or considering Crystal Reports and/or the complete business intelligence suite of Business Objects, or just looking to leverage Oracle BI Publisher capabilities delivered from Oracle, BI Quick Launch is your first step towards business intelligence simplification.
What Business Intelligence Challenges Does BI Quick Launch Address?
Since JD Edwards does not deliver market leading end-to-end reporting and business intelligence software that is quick and easy to implement, many customers seek alternative software solutions to augment their JD Edwards ERP system. The JD Edwards ERP data model is so complex and cryptic that empowering people outside IT to develop their own reports is virtually impossible using embedded JD Edwards reporting software.
BI Quick Launch is the result of the knowledge generated from thousands of hours of helping JD Edwards customers successfully implement reporting and business intelligence software. Preferred Strategies simplifies the JD Edwards data model by:
- Creating templates that are categorized by JD Edwards module
- Linking the applicable JD Edwards tables by module
- Converting cryptic field names to understandable naming conventions
- Performing decimal and date conversions
- Adding thousands of formulas and calculations, “Smart-like Fields” required for reporting and business intelligence that do not exist in JD Edwards
Why is this Important to Project Implementators?
If you intend to implement end-to-end business intelligence capabilities with JD Edwards you will need to provide a significant IT development team to build Business Intelligence content for end users, in order to enable them to perform reporting and business intelligence functions on their own. Building usable end user content requires extensive knowledge of both JD Edwards and business intelligence software, and time to properly address end user objectives and requirements. Content developed internally that may take 6-18 months is instead realistically delivered in days with BI Quick Launch.
What is the Preferred Strategies Business Intelligence Solution?
BI Quick Launch can be implemented in phases by business intelligence capability or by JD Edwards module. BI Quick Launch for JD Edwards embodies:
- Crystal Reports Templates and Report Samples
- Crystal Reports Sample Forms
- Business Objects Universes
- Oracle BI Publisher Templates
- Data Warehouse (Operational Data Store)
Based on customer requirements and objectives, BI Quick Launch content can be mapped directly over transactional JD Edwards data or data stored outside your production JD Edwards database. BI Quick Launch supports the following Business Intelligence capabilities for JD Edwards:
- Reporting With Crystal Reports
- Reporting With BI Publisher
- Ad Hoc Query and Analysis
- Dashboards
- Visualization
- Microsoft Office Integration
- Mobile
What Key Benefits Does BI Quick Launch Deliver?
If you are struggling with retrieving and analyzing information from JD Edwards, and are looking to implement business intelligence technologies, Preferred Strategies has helped over 100 JD Edwards customers achieve business intelligence success. BI Quick Launch delivers an “IT Lite” approach to implementing business intelligence software that minimizes reliance on IT.
- Advanced – Complex report creation capabilities
- Easy to Use – Non IT resources develop and navigate reports
- Quick and Easy to Deploy – Software and reports available in a few days
- Visionary – Achieves long-term reporting and business intelligence objectives
- Manageable – Does not require intensive IT support to administer and maintain
- Cost-effective – Significantly more affordable than alternatives on the market
Designed to Deliver Results and Real ROI
- Improved Report Performance – Reports run up to 30 times faster than ERW
- Accelerated Report Development – Reports developed 5 times faster than ERW
- Empower Management – Managers answer their own questions
- Shortened Month-End Close – Automated push button month end reporting
- Information Integrity – Trusted information directly from JD Edwards
- Improved Employee Satisfaction – Employees perform analytical vs. remedial tasks
BI Quick Launch is tailored to JD Edwards customers who need affordable, easy-to-use, robust business intelligence functionality that provides immediate time to value.
“End users realized instantaneous benefits with realtime drill down analysis; report development time was reduced five-fold due to Preferred Strategies report templates; reports are published to a production environment in seconds rather than the weekly JD Edwards deployment process; and reports now process five times faster than with JD Edwards Report Writer.”
Mike Huffar, Information Technology Director, Edward Kraemer & Sons, Inc.
Do not fall captive to a failed attempt at business intelligence for JD Edwards.
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