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Features & Benefits
Enlightened Perspective on Business Performance
Media's dashboard interface provides the ideal medium for decision-makers to better understand their results by enabling them to easily visualize business data and identify opportunities to improve their operations. Media allows users to quickly chart everything from general profits and losses to specific minute-by minute analyses of mission-critical operations thus providing them with a more enlightened perspective on their business performance.
- Improve access to information by transforming raw data into useful charts and reports.
- Drill-down functionality helps isolate analyses around specific KPIs to determine causal relationships with other indicators.
- Facilitate "management by exception," using analysis rules that highlight exceptional situations in meaningful colors.
- What-if projections let you assess the impact of a suggested change in your operating procedures.
- Calculation rules combine existing indicators to calculate percentages, ratios and comparisons using the full range of mathematical and logical operators.
- Improve business processes using standard measurements of progress.
User-friendly Customer and Operational Analysis
Media provides outstanding ease of use for both technical developers and end users. Its wizard-driven interface means users don't have to learn SQL. The entire system is highly scalable, so new users are added as needed. And Media draws information from a datamart or data warehouse, so dashboards transparently show information from multiple sources. Your non-technical employees will finally see data that normally are never examined side-by-side.
- The powerful Computer Aided Request (CAR) wizard writes SQL queries for you so you don't have to write a single line of code.
- Key performance numbers and charts can easily be copied to word processors or spreadsheets like Microsoft Excel.
- Easily identify trends in customer and organizational activity by applying business rules to highlight deviations in data.
- Empower employees by increasing their capacity to make decisions.
Efficient Information Delivery
Media's powerful technology architecture seamlessly connects to all data sources of an organization while efficiently sharing valuable information across the enterprise. Through its rapid ODBC access to corporate databases, Media effectively consolidates disparate data sources and facilitates the speedy delivery of corporate information.
- Hybrid OLAP architecture ensures lightning-fast access to both stable, high-level data and live, to up to the minute production data.
- Multiple dictionary support can incorporate and analyze information from external OLAP cubes such as Essbase, DB2 for OLAP and MS SQL OLAP Services.
- Media's Web interface provides all users with rapid access to valuable information and a cost-effective means of application maintenance that leaves zero footprints on the client.
- Distribute key data corporation-wide so all managers work with common information.
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