arcplan Enterprise

arcplan Enterprise is a platform for solving of tasks of a business intelligence, the analysis and reporting. Based on the The BI Survey overview 12 (2012) arcplan Enterprise SAP BW Oracle Essbase and was recognized as the best interface (front-end) for IBM Cognos TM1.

Many companies selected arcplan Enterprise for fast creation of the analytical reports which are an integral part of management of corporate performance. Any restrictions from the analytical platform. arcplan Enterprise perfectly is suitable both for one department and for all company.

Data sources

Users need an opportunity to create on the basis of the data control panels, standard reports, score cards and forecasts, however data for all this often are in different sources. arcplan Enterprise provides bidirectional communication with a set of data sources at the same time, including:

• SAP HANA SAP BW , и SAP BW Integrated Planning, R/3
• the Oracle families (including any Oracle databases, Essbase, HFM),
• IBM Cognos TM1 IBM DB2 UDB( , , , DB2 Cubing Services),
• Kognitio (Virtual Cubes/Pablo),
• Microsoft (Excel SQL Server i Microsoft Analysis Services),
• Paris Technologies PowerOLAP,
• Teradata (RDBMS, OLAP Connector),
• Infor (PM OLAP Server),
• any ODBC, OLE DB, XMLA, XML services,
• Web services/SOA with open API,
• and many other things.

Key product characteristics

• Integration more than with 20 different data sources (relational and multidimensional, with a recording capability)
• Automatic notifications when exceeding preset values
• The animated charts and diagrams
• Ample opportunities of printing and export, including to PDF and PowerPoint
• Mobile access to reports and diagrams from mobile devices on platforms iOS, Android and Windows 8
• Scalability, load distribution, support of clusters
• Centralized operation by access rights of users
• Full integration with a security system of Windows or work on the LDAP protocol
• Support of web services and other open standards

Overview of architecture

• arcplan Application Server is the server of the application working at Windows OS. It provides a possibility of the consecutive centralized analytics for each user in real time by means of the Internet or a local network. There are 32 also 64-bit versions.
• Data sources – interfaces of arcplan provide bilateral access to a broad spectrum of data sources, such as relational databases, OLAP and others. The possibility of reverse notation is the standard for arcplan of interfaces that allows to create applications which users can change data in sources, and not just analyze them.
• Web services / SOA – arcplan Enterprise is developed according to modular approach of SOA, supporting web services for each report of arcplan that allows to adapt to project conditions flexibly.
• arcplan Application Designer is means for development of flexible solutions of the business analysis which allows the companies to create proprietary applications using the simple and clear interface. Allows to create unique appearance for each application, integrating any number of charts, diagrams, tables, the text and graphics.
• Administration Console is the server administration console intended for storage and management of the developed reports. Centralized operation facilitates distribution and development by reports.

Additional components

• arcplan Spotlight is dynamic analysis (ad-hoc) in the web client
• arcplan Excel Analytics is deep bilateral integration into Microsoft Excel

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The arcplan platform allows:

• develop interactive control panels (dashboards) and create various reports for the analysis and planning, without demanding from developers of skills of programming;
• use any usual interfaces: browser, mobile device or corporate portal;
• provide direct access to several data sources in real time: data from SAP, Oracle, IBM, etc. in one report;
• create reports according to the corporate style of the company;
• create dynamically changeable reports (ad-hoc the analysis) – in the browser or in Excel;
• use different graphic data mappings, from simple charts and diagrams to Pareto's curves, bubble charts and diagrammatic charts;
• perform printing and also export of reports to PDF, Excel or PowerPoint