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by Diane Himes, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 6:00:00 PM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Business intelligence vendor releases upgrade that enables users to more quickly access analytical data, export charts and graphs to Microsoft productivity applications. |
| Keywords: | BI, business intelligence, Information Builders, IBI, portable BI, EPM, CPM, BPM, enterprise performance management, corporate performance management, business performance management |
Information Builders (IBI) has unveiled an enhanced version of its Active Reports portable business intelligence (BI) tool, with upgrades to the speed and quality of the tool's report-generation capabilities. The company's WebFOCUS Active Reports tool now includes the ability to export charts and graphs from the original HTML file into Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word, the company said. In addition, the time it takes for the tool to deliver reports to users has dropped to three seconds, from its previous average of 18 seconds. In response to customer requests to have access to their BI data whether or not they are connected to the Internet, IBI designed the new version of Active Reports to deliver self-contained HTML files, which, after their initial download, reside wholly on a user's hard drive or network. IBI also added to Active Reports 95% of the most commonly used functions in Excel. This means users aren't required to have the deep knowledge often associated with configuring these functions in Excel, Rado Kotorov, IBI's director of strategic product management, told Managing Automation in an interview. [Click to continue] |
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