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“While there were

several reporting

and analysis solu-tions available in an emerging business

intelligence market, none were totally

focussed on the business user – the

person who best understood the

meaning of the data and its value to

the organisation. We knew that if we

could create an environment where

everyone could explore information

and ask ad-hoc questions with ease,

this would resonate with customers.

We understood that simplicity is the

great challenge, so we really wanted to

create the iPod of analytics.”

oday the company’s graphical analyt-

ics solution – Logix Proessional – is

used by commercial and government

organisations in Ireland, the UK and

the US including Sisk Construction,

the Health & Saety Authority, Vision

Express and Bord Gais. Each customerapplies Logix Proessional to dier-

ent aspects o their organisation: sales,

nance, payroll, HR, distribution and,

increasingly, procurement. But all have

a common desire to put their data to

better use by enabling users to ask their

own questions.

“When you think about it, existing

reporting technologies can be very

inef cient,” says Wisdom. “I’m the busi-

ness user and I really understand the

data I’m working with on a daily basis

whether that’s customer claims, stock

portolios, payroll records or purchase

orders and supplier invoices. But when

I want to create a new report, change

an existing report or just ask an ad-hoc

question, typically I’ve got to revert to

technical support. Tat involves delays

and costs. Meanwhile I’m going to use

a spreadsheet to try and gure out the

answer.

“Our sotware is designed to tilt thatbalance in avour o the user, and ena-

ble them to ask their own questions in

a very simply, yet powerul way – all in

a graphical drag-and-drop, point-and-

click environment.”

Te company has proven the value o this

approach to the procurement unction,

and clients including Sisk Construction

and Fingal County Council have ana-

lysed procurement data using Logix

Proessional. “Procurement sta deal

Now more than ever,

procurement needsto ask questions…

Established in 2001 – right

in the middle of the dot.

com bust – the founders

of Nathean Technologies,

Ronan Wisdom and John

Pugh, initially focussed

on delivering integration

solutions. According to

Ronan Wisdom, “From the

outset, our business philos-

ophy has been to align

ourselves very closely with

our customers’ goals. As

a result, we were able to

notice that increasingly our

customers not only needed

to integrate data, but also

to ask that data questions.

“ Customers have acommon desire to put

their data to better use

by enabling users to ask

their own questions ”

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with a lot o ast moving inormation and their decisions

really aect perormance, cost and proftability. Tis is as true

in small to mid-size companies as it is or larger organisa-

tions dealing with multiple projects and suppliers.

“Logix Proessional delivers groundbreaking visibility o pro-

curement data, enabling graphical comparison o supplierperormance metrics, department and project order trends,

requests and authorisations and o course material costs. Te

speed o access to live purchase order inormation ensures

spend patterns can be analysed with ease, delivering savings

as real-time supplier perormance inormation becomes a

key input to procurement decisions.”

Nathean oers a combination o product, service and consul-

tancy. Some customers buy Logix Proessional, confgure it

and use it themselves. For other customers, Nathean carries

out initial confguration to get the best use o the technology.

For yet other customers, Nathean delivers their customer’s

entire reporting requirements across the

company.

In 2007, the company made its frst moves

into the global marketplace, opening part-

ner channels and gaining its frst export

customers in the UK such as Active

Corporate, the Scottish-based business

advisers and chartered accountants and

Vision Express, where Logix Proessional

is installed in each o the company’s 240-

plus stores delivering graphical analytics

to the local store management.

Nathean unds its aggressive innovationprogramme rom o its own resources.

Its current three-year R&D programme

is aimed at urther enhancing the capa-

bilities and ease o use o its product. Te

company recently established its European

HQ in a custom-designed acility in the

IDA Science and echnology Park in

Blanchardstown, Dublin, that has been

designed to service growth over the next

ten years. Sales and marketing operations

have been stepped up and the ocus now

is to build on what has been achieved to

date and increase product license revenue

by expanding partnerships and winning

new customers in Ireland and overseas.

“Our clients radically improve time to decision, elimi-

nate costs and delays, reduce reliance on spreadsheets and

increase return on investment rom the data they capture

and maintain,” says Wisdom. “And all o this rom a simple

idea – making it easy to ask questions.”

“ Nathean unds its aggressive innovation

programme rom o its own resources. Its

current three-year R&D programme is

aimed at urther enhancing the capabilities

and ease o use o its product.

”

Theanswersyouneed,now

Logix Professional isa uniquevisualanalysis solutionwhich enables youto askquestions the

reportwritersneverthoughtof. Nomorewaitingfor customisedreports,nomorespreadsheets,

andnomorepaper.Justtheanswersyouneed,now.

Logix Professional connects to

existing databases and, using

nothingmore thansimpledrag-

and-drop actions, builds up

powerful ‘views’ which answer

businessquestionsinastep-by-

stepfashion.

Easily discover answers to ad-

hocquestionsthatstaticreports

anddashboardscannotprovide,

and then share your findings

instantly with colleagues,

suppliers and customers in a

secureenvironment.

Simpletouse,Easytounderstand

Using Logix Professional it’s easy to explore information visually, identifying everything from

variationsinsuppliercoststocustomeractivitypatternstobrand-by-brandsalescomparisons.

Eachquestionis shown intabularformatin

the workspace - a uniquespreadsheetlike

environmentthatbusinessusersfindsimple

touse andeasyto understand.As youask

and refine your question, the workspace

providesimmediatevisualfeedback.

Unlike complex Business Intelligence tools

which all too often provide pre-defined

dashboards to a small group of specialist

users, Logix Professionaldelivers insightto

employeesatalllevels-every user isableto

askquestionsandexploretheanswers.

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