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thinking data® BI Toolkit
ThotWave builds sophisticated business intelligence applications that give decision makers useful access to data in corporate databases, analytic models, and document repositories – all in a web browser. The thinking data® BI Toolkit is our library for assembling custom BI solutions using components. The toolkit consists of a number of pluglets for data delivery and administration that may be configured and assembled. At the same time, the toolkit components are openly extensible to meet the most demanding decision support needs.

    Applications

  • Reporting dashboards to communicate performance measures and other data consistently throughout the organization
  • Web-enablement of SAS analytics such as forecasting, statistical models, quality control and simulation models
  • Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) solutions that disseminate results of business processes as they occur
  • Complex reporting needs, such as rollups of additive and non-additive data
  • Administrative consoles for management of security profiles, metadata, events, and other issues involved with production analytics applications

    Features

  • Fully web-based architecture
  • Targeted reports with data presented as tables or charts
  • Dashboard, scorecard, or key performance indicator reports that combine multiple tables and charts
  • Drill-up/drill-down navigation of data
  • Reports can be parameterized with data-driven selection menus
  • Able to report on non-additive measures such as Value at Risk
  • Security profiles control access to reports and to data within reports
  • Data-driven annotations such as footnotes, lineage attributes, and timestamps
  • Able to integrate data and unstructured documents from external sources
  • Able to integrate SAS analytics
  • Exports to Excel or other file formats
  • Metadata Explorer for secure, web-based management of reference data
  • Event System for proactive notification and business activity monitoring
  • Open security architecture that can use a dedicated user database or integrate with enterprise directories/portals/identity management services
  • Openly extensible J2EE (Java2 Enterprise Edition) technology

    System Requirements

    The thinking data® BI Toolkit is based on Java and requires a JavaEE application server. It is effective with a wide variety of information stores, including popular relational databases and SAS.

  • Required: Java SDK, 1.4 or better
  • Required: Java web/application server, servlet API 2.3 or better
  • Required database: JDBC-compatible relational database
  • SAS integration requires the SAS System version 8.2 or better

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