Databeacon Open Client Standard
In today’s more ROI-driven I.T. budget environment, Databeacon’s Web Reporting and Data Analysis capabilities are ideal for Mid-market enterprise and departments in larger organizations seeking an open systems Web Reporting and Data Analysis solution at a reasonable cost and project time frame.

Databeacon Open Client Standard offers a single, infinitely tailorable interface that can match the needs and skills of every user. I.T. administrators and report authors can define experience levels — through GUI design or dynamic program control — to create highly personalized reports. I.T. can also allow the individual operational manager to choose the level of interface that they prefer for any particular session (Novice, Intermediate, Advanced). Independent of choice, the Open Client Standard’s Databeacon Insight viewer is easy-to-learn and use, providing fast time to results.

Databeacon Open Client Standard allows users to easily share insights with others over the Internet

Databeacon Open Client Standard also enables collaboration, giving organizations the ability to publish and disseminate self-serve explorable reports to a large number of people over the Internet, allowing them to share data and specific insights within self-defined workgroups. Analysts can share data-driven conclusions with clients, managers can deliver the results of data explorations to executives, and casual business users or citizens interacting with data on portals can collaborate on insights within stakeholder groups.

For example, a sales manager could collaboratively work with other executives to report and analyze closed deals and pipeline numbers, while at the same time host a completely separate workgroup where marketing analysts explore trends and purchasing patterns. Each workgroup collaborates within their own report space, totally independent of other groups.

Databeacon Open Client products support client-side reporting and data analysis, allowing the operational manager to ‘Work Offline…’, disconnect from the Internet and continue the analysis of their Web reports on an anytime, anywhere basis. The Databeacon Insight viewer will save a local copy of the published data, along with a copy of the Databeacon Insight viewer itself (which was also downloaded from the Web server).

Databeacon Open Client products provide operational managers with Web Reporting and Data Analysis capabilities, including the following:

• Personalize an interface suited to individual business needs and preferences
• Match experience level to operational manager’s skills
• Collaborate, allowing organizations to share data and specific insights within self-defined workgroups
• Add, organize, delete or edit reports
• Display data as tables, graphs or charts
• View data in Presentation or Analysis formats
• Columnar and hierarchical display formats to optimize viewing screen
• View data dimensionally, expanding and collapsing hierarchical categories
• Drag and drop from multiple categories onto the report axes to see what is important
• Nest categories to show interrelationships in the data
• Sort data according to lowest, highest or custom values
• Filter the report to show only the data that matters
• Hide categories to create more focused reports
• Use relative time periods to enhance time-based analysis
• Exception highlight to focus attention on low and high performance results
• Apply calculations to expose information not directly contained in the data
• Drill through to detailed source records for fine grained analysis
• Drill cube to cube to create logically expanded data view
• Send report views to others, attaching the chart presentation or data as a PDF, Word, Excel or flat file
• Export to Excel, Word and other desktop products to further explore the data
• Undo and redo up to 10 levels of action for flexible analysis and recovery

Platform support

• Viewer platform
  • Internet Explorer 5.0+ or Netscape 4.7+ with Java VM
• Build platform
  • Windows 2000, NT, XP, Linux, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, and HP-UX
  • Data from RDBMS via ODBC or JDBC, XML, flat files and executable output
• Publish platform
  • Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, NT, XP or 2003, Linux, Sun Solaris