Product Overview

Informed decision making is the key to success for all organizations in this day and age – this is true regardless of size, geography or industry. Data producers are ably equipped with all the tools and applications they would need in order to completely and effectively capture the most granular detail associated with any transaction – be it financial, supply chain, HR or any custom operational system specific to the industry or company. The greater challenge has always been in presenting executives and decision makers with a summarized view of the net effect of all the transactional data and to provide the insight into what is really happening at a macro level.

Business Intelligence is the normal means that executives – IT and their business counter-parts have resorted to in order to gain the insight into their operation. However, not all BI tools and technologies are universally applicable in all circumstances. Some solutions are beyond the affordability of smaller organizations to procure, implement and support. This can often cause a significant capital drain on an already slim IT budget. The need of the day is for an economical, easy to implement and quick-to-deploy solution that sacrifices none of the benefits of a traditional BI solution! Hydus has just that answer…

Our SaaS BI product offering is a subscription based BI solution adopting a pay-upon-use approach. Our solution is simple, yet comprehensive. The BI SaaS can be adopted at a department level or at the enterprise level and the solution can be utilized in as little as 6 weeks!

The unique offering enables integrating all your data sources into a custom data warehouse with reporting and analytics functions built-in. With little time needed to establish the infrastructural components of the solution and operational support rendered on a dedicated basis for the life of the subscription, users now enjoy intelligence delivered to them on demand.

Intellivered! - the most cost-effective solution for BI offering a strong alternative to a traditional build and implement approach.

Functionality

- Subscription based service, offered on a cloud for full integration, reporting and analytical capabilities
- Built on Teradata hardware and technology
- Leverages open-source reporting and ETL tools
- Establish the service to deploy to customers in as little as 6 weeks

Benefits

- No initial investment in purchasing the hardware and the software tools to build a complete solution.
- Organizations with limited IS staff, constrained by skills and budgets do not have to recruit, retain and manage large teams of data warehousing, ETL, integration and reports development personnel.
- The solution is right-sized for the organization based on whether the reporting needs are departmental (smaller scale and scope) or enterprise wide (larger scale and scope) immediately upon inception.
- Companies can start off the initiative with small cash outlays for establishing the solutions (at a departmental data mart, for instance) and build upon this to cover greater scope and functions.
- Adding additional capacity and performing enhancements to the solution is serviced on-demand by the SaaS BI provider. Customers only pay for the hardware and software being used, as opposed to making large-scale technology investments and waiting for a certain time elapse before realizing returns.
- Service providers often engage with the clients to perform enhancements to existing reports and data warehouses as part of the offering.
- The company utilizing SaaS BI does not have the overhead of hiring, training or retaining the required skilled personnel for this initiative. The implementation project is often fast-tracked by skipping the entire mobilization phase of a project, resulting in faster time to deliver the solution.
- The users can focus on the core data to manage and grow the business by have intelligence delivered to them - instead of engaging in an IT initiative to implement a reporting solution.
- The management and the maintenance of the solution is the responsibility of the service provider.
- Routine maintenance of the databases (archiving, purging, performance management etc) is done by a certified database administrator on the payroll of the service provider.