CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE

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Business Intelligence Enterprise Reporting
The Hurwitz Group BI is an imperative for
e-business.Gartner Group by 2002, business
management in 50 of large enterprises will
identify BI as a strategic initiative, forging an
alignment of goals, objectives, and resources to
better support the enterprise with insight (0.7
probability).

• Packaged for Your ERP Application

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Business Intelligence Enterprise Reporting

• Introduction to BSmart

BSmart Intelligent Solutions, Inc is a sales,
consulting, and integration company providing
Performance Management for the entire enterprise
using world-class software from Business Objects.

• Mission
• Provide a blend of business intelligence and
  enterprise reporting features for Analytical
  Reporting using powerful and secure capabilities
  to access and analyze information REGARDLESS of
  the data source across the enterprise.
• Provide enterprise management and end-users the
  ability to fully track, understand, and manage
  the performance of the entire enterprise.
• Information Democracy users do their own
  reports and IT manages security and
  architecture/configuration of business
  intelligence information backbone.

• History
• 1997 - Services only channel of Software Works,
  an ERP implementation/services company
• 1999 - Silver Alliance partner with Business
  Objects
• 2000 - Partnered with several ERP vendors named
  as their BI Solutions Provider
• 2002 - Software Works BI Channel split as BSmart
  Intelligence Solutions

For more information visit their website
www.bsmartsolutions.com. BSmart Intelligent
Solutions, Inc. is a certified alliance partner,
training partner and reseller of Business
Objects, Inc. IFS Applications is a trademark of
IFS Industrial and Financial Systems.  All other
referenced company or product names are
trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective owners. )
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Business Intelligence Enterprise Reporting

• Presentation Agenda

• BI and Analytical Reporting for IFS Application
  Users and Enterprise Managers
• Introduction to BSmart
• Mission
• History
• Key to BI Success QuickStart Package for IFS
• Built by IFS Application implementation experts
• Used right-out-of-the-box
• Demo IFS QBI Package with Designer!!!
• Empower Users __
• Users get their own data in the presentation
  format of their choice
• Portal to Intelligence User-Personalized Portal
  for Dashboards, Queries, Reports and 3rd party
  applications
• Empower Users - give users the worlds easiest
  tool for generating and formatting ad-hoc
  queries/reports
• Allied with a Leading BI visionary and delivery
  company _
• BSmart BI Solution is Powered by Business
  Objects
• BSmart and Business Objects provide a huge array
  of BI functionality today and even more in the
  future
• In Good Company
• Where to Start?
• Start your BI implementation with your IFS ERP
  Solution and access other enterprise data sources
• Then ask

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Key to BI Success Our QuickStart BI Package!

• Our QBI package is built leveraging the
  world-class technology of Business Objects, a
  company solely focused on BI who is consistently
  ranked by most as the worlds best. Powered by
  Business Objects!
• Our QuickStart BI (QBI) package for IFS includes
  (but is not limited too) a semantic layer called
  universes that exposes database items that are
  easily recognized by end-users to drag/drop onto
  a query panel, on-site end-user training using
  your own corporate data, administration training
  for security and universe changes.
• Our QBI package for IFS is built by IFS
  implementation experts who know your application
  and Business Intelligence, blended to deliver the
  best.
• Our QBI package is used right out-of-the-box and
  significantly shortens the implementation and
  training requirements - providing an excellent
  ROI. (Thats how we can demo on-site using your
  own IFS data. Want to query, report and/or
  analyze your own data, ask our IFS/BI consultant
  during the demo).
• Our QBI package is founded on a metadata
  definition layer we call the semantic layer that
  defines the architecture and relationships of
  your IFS data. This layer is used as the central
  knowledge repository for this data and is
  automatically updated when your IFS or any
  enterprise data source changes.
• Our QBI package significantly lowers the total
  cost of ownership (TOC) because it is a solution
  that can be deployed for most all enterprise data
  sources, even integrating data at reporting time.
  
• Our QBI packaging technique and results have been
  reviewed by Business Objects consulting services
  and approved by their senior consulting service
  engineers.
• Our QBI package extends the information provided
  by IFS in many ways such as GL financial reports
  that provide drill-down capabilities to the
  individual transactions themselves.

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Our Philosophy - Empower Users
Put BI/ER in USERs hands to do their own!
Empower end users with access to information
easily creating reports and dashboards. Add key
performance indicators and business exceptions to
take immediate action.
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Empower Users with the Worlds Leading Ad-Hoc
Query tool!

• Industrys easiest query interface
• Works against business representation of data
• All query components available in one window

Available Information
Section Breaks
Chosen Format
Conditions
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Ally with the worlds leading BI company
Leaders in Business Intelligence

• The Recognized Leader in Business Intelligence

Source Gartner/ March 2002

• 1 in End User Query and Reporting 3 years
  running

Source IDC Information Access Tools/Survey, July
2002
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In Good Company
80 of the fortune 1000 are customers
14,000 customers in 80 world countries
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Whats Next Start your BI implementation with
your ERP, but business decisions effect entire
enterprises, they dont fit into application
stovepipes!

• Characteristics of todays business analysis
• Multiple linked questions
• Data sources for each question vary
• In almost every company data is scattered across
  diverse systems

Sales Analytics What caused sales to drop? A,B
Customer Analytics Which customers are buying
less? And of what? B,C
List Generation Who are these customers? A, B C
Campaign Analytics Whats the best way to target
former buyers of these products? A,B
Product Analytics Which products are they buying
less of? A,B,C D
Choose an enterprise BI Platform
Deliver Analytics Is this the cause of inventory
surplus? B,D
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• Then ask, Where is your business going?

Ask your enterprise Wheres your pain?

• Sales and marketing management
• Which products drive the most revenue and
  whats their percentage contribution to overall
  revenue?
• Operations management
• Which buyers are slow payers? Who are the worst
  10?
• Finance
• Which dept. has the highest travel costs per
  head?
• Human resources
• What factors govern employee retention?
• Manufacturing
• Which suppliers products have most quality
  issues?

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Business Intelligence Enterprise Reporting

• Todays Demo Agenda

• Business Intelligence and Analytical Reporting
  for IFS Application Users and Enterprise Managers
• End User Reporting
• IFS Package Designer
• End users empowered to create their own
  queries/reports
• End users presentation their way with breaks,
  sorts, rankings, charts and more
• End User Analysis
• End user evaluations from varying dimensions
  (slice/dice)
• End user evaluations from varying altitudes far
  away to up-close)
• Transparent data-cubes for local analysis
• Sales Reporting for IFS (additional functionality
  areas as time permits)
• Financial Reporting for IFS
• Income Statement examples (drill-downs to GL
  details)
• Dept Expense
• Examples
• Business Performance versus Enterprise
• PO Form
• Dashboards

Future Demo Agenda

• User defined business conditions for alerts and
  notifications
• Portals/Dashboards
• Adding value for customers, vendors, partners
  with your data
• Creating queries/reports from multiple enterprise
  data sources (budget vs actual)