Business templates – “Cross border BI”

Re-usable business templates transform the way BI is used. They drastically reduce the time and technical resources needed to create and maintain custom analytics. Templates can shorten the implementation of a BI project, and help gain immediate results that impact the bottom line.

Typically, business logic is hard-coded into reports, restricting the easy re-use of this logic across other analytics or deployments. Zap Business Intelligence incorporates business logic into a layer of building blocks, serving as the foundation for analytics. When this foundation layer is changed, all analytics are instantly updated. Zap Business Intelligence allows the creation of an entire suite of business templates based on the foundation layer, which can be easily shared across territories, companies, and entirely different deployments of the solution. With Zap Business Intelligence, simply map the foundation layer and all the analytics automatically fall into place. For example, pre-define account ranges for reports, so there is no manual selection or maintenance for individual report creators.

Examples of how you can benefit from business templates:

Create corporate templates for any type of analytic – such as dashboards, reports, KPIs, and scorecards – and ensure that they are used consistently throughout your organization. Achieving reporting consistency becomes very complex when different business systems are used in different regions, business units, or companies. But with Zap Business Intelligence, your head office or holding company can create templates that are very easily shared with any part of the organization, no matter what business systems are used, and the regions don’t have to waste time trying to shape their data the way that HQ wants it.
Encourage collaboration and sharing – Encourage teams to pool their ideas and experience. If a subsidiary in one country has produced some particularly insightful analytics, easily have them share it with colleagues in other countries and ensure that the whole organization benefits from this rich experience. Again, it doesn’t matter if different business systems are used.
For business intelligence for ERP users, pre-define account ranges for reports, so that there is no manual selection or maintenance for individual report creators.

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