Richard Rabin Senior Sales Engineer Altosoft™, a Kofax Company Email: [email protected]
Kofax Altosoft Insight™ Deep Dive
Agenda
Business intelligence tasks
A better approach –Kofax Altosoft Insight™
Kofax Altosoft Insight architecture
Key concepts
Insight differentiators
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Business Intelligence Tasks
Every business intelligence implementation must address:
Data collection
Data parsing
Data cleansing and transformation
Data aggregation and calculation
Delivery via multiple channels
End user empowerment
A Better Approach – Kofax Altosoft Insight
Kofax Altosoft Insight delivers all the functional elements required for enterprise BI solutions
One unified toolset: no third-party products required
A single, end-to-end metadata set
Unified deployment, change and upgrade management
Common role-based authorization that can be integrated with enterprise resources
Adds process intelligence
Absolutely no coding or scripting
Kofax Altosoft Insight Architecture
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The Altosoft Approach
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Insight Dashboard & Reports
•100% Browser-based •AJAX / Flash drag & drop design interface
•Can operate independent of MetricsMart
MetricsMart Insight BI
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Managed Database
“Smart Mart”
•Databases •Packaged Apps •Web Services •Flat Files •Event Driven Systems
•Metrics stored in any database for easy access by any tool
•Capable of storing calculated Metrics only or source records/events
•Optimized for time-dimensioned data
•No coding of any kind
•Centralized management of metrics metadata
•Centralized administration of data mart definition
ProcessMart
MetricsMart Analytics
Server
Main Insight Concepts
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Records Metrics Order Process Step Deposit Resident
Order count, average order size, revenue Step count, average step duration, process savings Total deposit, number of deposits Current resident count, new resident count, avg stay
Dimensions
Record: Order has fields city, country, employee Metric: Revenue can have dimensions city, country, employee
MetricsMart Stores metrics (usually), records (sometimes) Drives the dashboard (usually) Incremental data loads where possible
Kofax Altosoft Insight
Single platform for all elements of business intelligence
Streamlined implementation cycle
No coding of any kind
MetricsMart: No need to pre-aggregate data, build data cubes
Enterprise class
Not just departmental or for special projects
Innovative process intelligence tools
Understand your data in the context of your business processes
Automatically monitor process execution
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For further information, please contact:
Richard Rabin Senior Sales Engineer, Altosoft™, a Kofax Company Email: [email protected]