Panorama Business Intelligence

Finding the needle in the haystack is sometimes the difference between business success and failure. Businesses today focus more than ever on finding ways to optimize their operations and sales efforts. To do so they need solutions that can help them find specific insights that help prioritize efforts, reduce expenses and grow product sales.

Panorama Software is proud to announce the release of the latest version of Panorama NovaView 6 with new user experience for data analysis and a powerful new Universal data connector that lets users build reports on top of any data.
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A wonderful idea I heard of is to turn to full screen mode in Internet Explorer when entering the Dashboard site. It can make a better user experience. Try it yourself and you’ll see the huge difference.

How will we do that? We will add a JavaScript code to the first page of the dashboards site and after that we’ll ask our system administrator to enable this script for us. Let’s get to work:

Step 1 – The JavaScript

Create a new HTML component in the dashboard page. Edit it and click on the “View Source” button (the one with the <>). Enter the following code:
<SCRIPT>
var wscript = new ActiveXObject(”Wscript.shell”);
wscript.SendKeys(”{F11}”);
</SCRIPT>

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While business intelligence vendors are focusing on trying to tweak BI tools to fit the needs of more users, it seems that in real life this trend is not picking up and users still feel that BI tools are too complex for them.

The reason more users need BI is because today they mostly use static reports that don’t provide too much insights or just make decisions based on gut feeling.

There is no doubt that more people in the organization could benefit from better BI insights….

After trying for years to tweak BI to fit more users we are now trying to approach this from a new angle – Bring the BI insights to users….
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Social media has fired the first shots of an information revolution. MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn have changed the way we network, while tools like Twitter and Yammer have introduced the roles of “content creators” and “followers.”

The rate at which information consumption has evolved is really astounding. This April alone, Twitter estimated more than 17 million unique US visitors. The same month, Facebook reported 200 million active users – only three months after reaching the 150 million mark. Factoring in blogs, wikis, podcasts and other social media outlets, the amount of businesses and consumers that companies are actively engaging is through the roof.

The emergence of social media has laid the groundwork for anyone to publish thoughts, ideas and information and share that content instantaneously with the rest of the web. Because social media is inherently simple to manipulate, it is quickly becoming the preferred way to consume information.

We’ve already begun using these platforms for marketing, networking, content sharing and a wealth of other purposes. In a world where Business Intelligence tools are still used primarily by few power users in the organization, it seems that extending the reach of insights through social media is the right way to go.

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In the last couple of years BI has evolved in many ways leading to 2 kinds of BI solutions for the enterprise:
- Strategic, data warehouse based

- Tactical without a need for data warehouse

The strategic deployments take a bit longer to deploy on one hand but eventually provide a much richer set of unified applications that let users better interact with data that is being aggregated, giving the users more ways to find very powerful business insights.

The ‘tactical’ solutions give departments ways to select data from various systems and instantly start creating reports from them. Like in most cases in life there isn’t any ‘free lunch’ and those solutions, mostly using proprietary and closed memory based databases such as QlikTech (Qlikview), do not offer significant data navigation capabilities and mostly focus on building semi static reports and fancy looking dashboards but lack the power associated with BI.

So what is the solution?

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