Lawson Business Intelligence

Lawson Business Intelligence is a product that joins applications and technology to provide you with a powerful reporting and analysis solution. The many calculations and other analytical features within Lawson Business Intelligence make it an excellent decisions solution for all roles within an organization.

Lawson Business Intelligence is made up of:

  • the Analytic Architect (IA) application

  • an Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) database

  • the Scorecard reporting tool

Note: Your implementation might use some or all of the Lawson Business Intelligence components.

Analytic Architect

The Analytic Architect application is the backbone of Lawson Business Intelligence. Analytic Architect enables you to use data marts types to define, extract, transform, and load Lawson data from the Lawson application database into the Hyperion Essbase OLAP Server or the Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services. In addition to creating OLAP databases, Analytic Architect can create CSV or Star Schema output for use with a variety of reporting tools.

See the Analytic Architect User Guide.

OLAP database

Note: An OLAP database is also called a cube or data mart.

The data you extract with Analytic Architect is consolidated, summarized, and then transferred to an online analytical processing (OLAP) database. You can use Hyperion Essbase or Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services as your OLAP database.

Scorecard

Scorecard is a Lawson-developed analytic tool that enables you to build different configurations of your data that is stored in an OLAP database. Scorecard enables you to view your business data, run what-if scenarios, pivot data, create charts, drill down into the data, and use DrillAround© to access related data in the Lawson application.

See the Scorecard User Guide.