Visual Business Intelligence Solutions

Our visual business intelligence solutions (VBI) present information in a format designed for decision making. We go beyond data displayed in tabular reports and communicate information clearly and effectively through graphical means. The display of information is critical when complex information needs to be explained quickly and clearly. It's also essential when users need to rapidly focus on only the information of interest to them, with issues requiring immediate attention highlighted. True visual business intelligence solutions:

• Present an enterprise-wide view of information
• Highlight problems graphically
• Enable users to drill down and see details

Powerful VBI solutions are more than just executive dashboards. While these dashboards are becoming popular, they don't allow drilldowns. Our visual business intelligence solutions often combine elements of our other offerings, such as geospatial solutions.

Often customers don't have a good idea of options, what a visual business intelligence solution is, and how it can benefit them. Our approach is to:

• Develop an overall concept
• Create storyboards and screen images to help the customer understand the possibilities and benefits
• Keep the customer focused on the primary purpose of visualization, which is to convey information in an easy, intuitive manner, not to create beautiful images
• Often develop a small proof-of-concept application so the customer can see what a visualization solution looks like and experience its value

In addition to displaying data, our most sophisticated systems empower users to interactively adjust parameters and data for "what if" analysis. This works well for multivariate data, where changing the value of one or more parameters affects the value of other data. It's extremely valuable for users to:

• See a visual display of information
• Change the values of one or more parameters
• Immediately see the effects of the change