What it is

Infor ION BI makes it easy for your company's decision makers to get the meaningful reporting and analysis they need to effectively monitor and control performance, leading to more informed decisions. It's made up of three core applications: Infor ION BI Office Plus for advanced reporting and sophisticated business analysis, Infor ION BI OLAP Server for modeling any business process and predicting results, and Infor ION BI Application Studio, which lets you supplement reports with essential background information in a familiar spreadsheet environment. Infor ION BI offers powerful tools to improve information gathering and knowledge sharing throughout your organization.

What it does

Infor ION BI solutions build on the universally familiar spreadsheet interface to streamline and accelerate the process of gathering, analyzing, and reporting critical decision making information. By enhancing and improving the tools managers already use every day, Infor Infor ION BI simplifies complex choices and improves your company's ability to make effective plans and communicate those plans to everyone who needs to be included. Each solution includes powerful, specific features for getting better results, including:

• Infor ION BI Application Studio—Allows you to supplement reports with essential background information in a familiar spreadsheet environment for better information gathering and knowledge sharing throughout your organization.
• Infor ION BI Office Plus—Delivers advanced reporting and sophisticated business analysis to improve collaboration and optimize key processes. With wizards that make it easy to create sophisticated reports, such as trend analysis, Infor ION BI Office Plus lets you produce custom templates or adapt standard ones to incorporate design elements, key performance indicators, and more. Because you can create new models or modify existing ones within the spreadsheet environment, you'll keep the software in sync with changes, without requiring help from IT.
• Infor ION BI OLAP Server—A platform for modeling any business process and predicting the results of any change to that process, Infor ION BI OLAP Server introduces multidimensional data into your modeling process to enhance "what if" scenarios, improving not only your business decisions, but also your confidence in those decisions. It also makes it possible to test multiple planning scenarios quickly by automatically allocating your budget down to any level of detail. Likewise, you can set up business rules to reflect interdependencies. The solution also provides one common administrator interface with the ability to control online backups, administer databases on remote servers, and update roles from this single location. What's more, Infor ION BI OLAP Server is memory-resident, which means that all "write" actions and data modifications are stored in auditable relational tables, so that you can easily undo multiple actions to create optimal models quickly and efficiently.

What it means

With Infor ION BI, decision makers improve their ability to:

• Access critical business information.
• Filter and analyze data for better decision making.
• Publish information throughout their organizations—anytime, anywhere.
• Merge data from multiple sources into a single report.
• Quickly transform raw data into valuable information.
• Get faster results and quick ROI through detailed access rights and user profiles.
• Link multisource data in a single report.