Panorama Business Intelligence

I want to show you a work I finished few months ago. I’m very proud of this work as it will be in the desktop of our CEO and I got many compliments for it. Making this was possible thanks to the Panorama SDK.

There’s a problem getting out screenshots out of my company, so I did a sketch in Power Point. Note that what you see in the picture is not the real screenshot of the work (It’s much more beautiful in the reality…).

This is the functionality of the leds map (my design, if you have any comments):

• The leds map is simply a web site, meaning zero-footprint in the client’s computer. Some computers in my company has java compatibility problems, so I added a parameter you can send with the site’s URL which changes the applet’s java version (see more in the next post, which will be more technical).
• The leds map has to be small, about a quarter of the screen. That’s because it’s intended to be a part of the CEO’s desktop.
• When the map loads, a picture with a turning-around The Thinker statue is shown with a “Loading” message below (our CEO loves that statue…).
• After the map has been loaded, the user sees two axis with the leds in them. The two axis can represent any Meta-Measures you’d like: Short-Term Profit Vs. Long-Term Profit, Client’s Satisfaction Vs. Company’s Profit, etc. This is a point that many people have difficulty to understand, so I’ll give an example: The yellow led is in the top-right corner, so that says that the underlying measure is very important in both the meta-measures. Going on with the example, that says that this measure is very important for theClient’s Satisfaction and for the Company’s Profit. Note that the leds never move. Only their color changes.

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First it was the blog world that was buzzing about Panorama’s initiative with Google and now analysts are turning their attention to the unique offering by Panorama and Google.

Aberdeen Group, a leading provider of fact-based research focused on the global technology-driven value chain, issued a “Market Alert” yesterday offering an interesting opinion about the Panorama/Google solution.

Read it hear – http://www.aberdeen.com/launch/report/market_alert/5173-MA-panorama-google-business-intelligence.asp

 

The world of Software as a Service (SaaS) is becoming increasingly attractive for many businesses as companies look for viable options other than continuously investing money into buying software that needs to be installed and maintained in-house .  Not only is SaaS becoming a viable option, it is also becoming a feasible alternative, in many cases, to traditional application software vendors.  There are numerous reasons that can help explain this phenomenon.  On the IT side of the equation, most CIOs are always on the lookout for ideal application delivery options and the ability to dramatically reduce large amounts of their budgets spent on IT-related administration and support is a very attractive proposition.  Furthermore, the cost of staffing and increasing IT-complexity makes a SaaS-based approach very appealing. On the business side of the equation, there are many cases where buying a service helps reduce the burden from IT when there is a need for a new solution to support the business.  

A great example of a SaaS-based solution is Google Apps.  Google’s solution compels companies to ask themselves why they would install a productivity suite when they could just use it as a set of services.  The uptake on Google Apps has been tremendous and the potential for both improvement and growth can be seen (500,000 companies currently using it worldwide with 3,000 added every day).  Another example of a remarkable SaaS-based solution is Salesforce.com. With one million users, their value proposition is based on the fact that an organization need not purchase and install a cumbersome CRM system that will cost a fortune to maintain.  Rather, use it as a service and keep your headaches to a minimum!

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