B2B Solution, Inc. e-Applications will have you up and running quickly with an end-to-end business intelligence solution from a single vendor. They allow your business users to harness the broadest range of information and effectively manage, share, and analyze it. The result is faster, more coordinated decisions in every area business area. These packaged, function-specific data marts, reports, and analyses are presented in an operational framework that greatly reduces the ongoing cost of maintenance and support.

With B2B Solution, Inc. e-Applications, you can refocus resources on revenue-generating activities not on lengthy IT development projects. Each data mart is made up of pre-defined components for rapid implementation. You simply add data. You can easily adapt each mart to reflect your organization's unique information needs, incorporate changes as your business changes, and simplify administration.

Deployment-Ready
B2B Solution, Inc. e-Applications enables business users to access the broadest range of information to make better decisions and build better relationships with customers, suppliers and partners. These packaged solutions are shipped ready to:

• Read or pull data from e-commerce and traditional data sources such as ERP systems
• Distribute reports and analyses to employees, customers, suppliers and partners in client-server format or over the Internet, intranet, or extranet.

Production-Ready
With B2B Solution, Inc. e-Applications, you can implement an end-to-end business intelligence solution in a fraction of the time it would take to build from scratch. In fact, customers have reported saving a complete business cycle on their implementation. And, through an operational framework, support requirements are minimized throughout the entire life cycle.

Requirements Gathering

• Pre-defined star schema data models are optimized for reporting performance, and reflect the typical reporting and analysis requirements for key areas such as Sales, Finance, Inventory, Procurement, and Inventory
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and business metrics captured in each functional analysis allow users to better measure and manage the business
  Developing a solution
• Business rules are incorporated into the business-driven extractions and source-to-target mappings based on major ERP systems, such as Oracle Applications and JD Edwards, and are open to alternate sources
• Simplified initial configuration and installation match your ERP implementation
• ERP customizations such as hierarchies, hierarchy types, status codes, charts of accounts, and exchange rates types are easy to incorporate
• Modular ETL processes make it easy to add or adapt additional ERP or non-ERP data, extractions, data models, OLAP cubes, reports, and external data, or to share components of other data marts without writing code

Quality Assurance

• A Production Assistant provides intelligent ETL job control for manual and changed data loads, sets extraction job sequencing, defines extract date ranges, handles exceptions during the data mart update process, and confirms parameters around which each extraction is run
• Automatic administration tracks job histories, catches errors, and provides restart validation to give you valuable production information

Deployment

• Use B2B Solution, Inc. leading products such as PowerPlay and Impromptu which give you the choice of client/server, or Web deployment
• Deploy a highly robust solution to thousands of users with no impact on your production system by using the Functional Design wizard

Maintenance

• History preservation capabilities maintain changes to the business over time
• Shared dimensions ensure that IT builds a dimension or business measure only once that can be used across numerous data marts. This reduces the IT work load and allows consistent data and measures to be used across numerous data marts. This reduces the IT work load and allows consistent data and measures to be used across the enterprise.
• Only changed data is captured when updating the mart, ensuring peak performance.

Business-Ready Solutions

Packaged reports and analyses gives users the business content they need everyday without IT involvement:

• Packaged reports, OLAP cubes, and catalogs reflect typical information and KPIs needed to manage, measure, and improve business performance in each functional area
• A self-service environment gives users the flexibility to adapt any report to meet their particular needs, which greatly reduces the reporting burden on IT
• A broad range of reporting options are available-scorecard style, business performance measurement, status, ad-hoc, and visualization-to meet all information requirements, regardless of the user's skill level or position in the organization.