Lawson Business Intelligence
Lawson Business Intelligence is a Lawson product that joins together applications and technology to provide you with a powerful reporting and analysis solution. The many different calculations and other analytical features within Analytics make it an excellent decision support system for all roles within an organization. These are the components of the Lawson Business Intelligence:
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The Analytic Architect (IA) application
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An online analytical processing (OLAP) database
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Reporting tools
Analytic Architect
The Analytic Architect application is the backbone of Lawson Business Intelligence. Analytic Architect enables you to extract, transform, and load Lawson transactional data from Lawson applications into Hyperion Essbase® OLAP Server or Microsoft Analysis Services. In addition to creating OLAP cubes, Analytic Architect can create CSV or Star Schema output for use with a variety of reporting tools.
OLAP Database
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Hyperion Essbase is a strategic platform for enterprise reporting, analysis, modeling, and planning applications. You can use this product with a broad range of analytical applications including the Lawson\® e ScoreCard and the Hyperion Essbase Excel Add-In®.
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Microsoft Analysis Services is a component of Microsoft SQL Server and is used to define data marts.
Reporting Tools
You can use a wide variety of third party data warehouse tools to report on and analyze output created with Analytic Architect. Lawson specifically endorses the use of a few proven solutions:
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Lawson® e-Scorecard
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Hyperion Essbase Excel Add-In
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Hyperion Analyzer™
e-Scorecard is a Lawson-developed analytic tool that delivers role-based business intelligence from leading OLAP servers such as Hyperion Essbase and Microsoft Analysis Services. With e-Scorecard, you can view your business data, run what-if scenarios, pivot data, create charts, and drill back to data in the cube or business management application.
