Hummingbird Bolsters BI/Suite for Managed Business Intelligence for the Enterprise
Tuesday January 12, 1:41 pm Eastern Time, Company Press Release
SOURCE: Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
New Version Delivers Ad Hoc Query over the Web, Event-Triggering Exceptions, Exporting of Data into Microsoft Excel and More...
TORONTO, Jan. 12 /CNW-PRN/ - Hummingbird Communications Ltd. (TSE: ''HUM'' and NASDAQ: ''HUMCF''), a world-leading enterprise software company, today announced the availability of BI/Suite v5.0.1, the latest version of Hummingbird's fully integrated, Web-enabled, managed business intelligence solution for the enterprise. BI/Suite v5.0.1 features advanced ad hoc query functionality for Web users, as well as event-triggering exceptions for exception-based reporting and broadcasting.
''Hummingbird BI/Suite, our fully integrated query, reporting and OLAP solution, has already gained wide acceptance in our Fortune 1000 accounts as the best managed business intelligence solution for the enterprise at the lowest cost of ownership,'' says Robert Lalonde, vice president of marketing for Hummingbird's Business Intelligence Group. ''With the addition of ad hoc capabilities over the Web and event-triggering exceptions to an already feature-rich product set, BI/Suite is delivering the enterprise-strength business intelligence solution our customers demand.''
New Features in BI/Suite 5.0.1 include:
- Event-triggering exceptions: Allow business users to trigger query and
reporting tasks, and distribution and notification events based on
exceptions in reports -- such as a failed sales quota.
- Ad hoc query over the Web: Provides Web users with a feature-rich and
easy to use ad hoc query environment. Users can create, save and
publish new queries, select attributes and joins (automatic and
manual), apply aggregates, qualify, sort on, group on as well as
reorder attributes and utilize query modifiers. Both PC desktop and
Web users share the same queries and data sources.
- Exporting report data into Microsoft Excel: Web users can now download
contents of reports and query result sets to import into Microsoft
Excel and other spreadsheet applications.
- Client-side printing: Allows Web users to print to local printers
utilizing a Java-based print engine.
Lowest Cost of Ownership for the Enterprise
BI/Suite is the only business intelligence offering that meets the needs of an enterprise with a single solution. BI/Suite utilizes the same content, security, and user profiles as well as centralized administration for both PC desktop and Web users from a single server.
With BI/Suite, organizations can deploy ad hoc query and interactive reporting capabilities to the widest audience over the Web, providing a centrally administered BI environment with zero administration desktops at the lowest cost of ownership.
Based on open standards such as CORBA, IIOP and Java and XML, BI/Suite is truly enterprise-scalable out of the box.
About BI/Suite
Hummingbird BI/Suite is a fully integrated enterprise business intelligence solution allowing end users to access and analyze information stored in transactional databases, data marts, data warehouses, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications both on the desktop and over the Web. BI/Suite includes:
- BI/Query, an enterprise query and reporting application,
- BI/Web, a true thin-client solution for performing query and reporting
tasks over the Web,
- BI/Analyze, an enterprise OLAP application for multidimensional
analysis of corporate data, and
- BI/Broker, an enterprise application server designed to provide
scheduling, security, distribution, notification and centralized
administration services to BI/Suite.
Product Availability:
BI/Suite version 5.0.1 is available immediately.
About Hummingbird
Hummingbird Communications Ltd. specializes in the development of enterprise software solutions, including network connectivity and business intelligence products that provide high performance access to internetwork-based information and applications. Hummingbird products are sold and supported internationally by authorized resellers in more than 40 countries. The Company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with offices strategically located throughout Canada and the United States, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
SOURCE: Hummingbird Communications Ltd.
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