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Analyzer SaaS Model Creates New Ways to Leverage your Data

More and more companies are recognizing the value of sharing data with suppliers, partners, and even customers. This horizontal collaboration creates a powerful advantage today and will become the requirement of tomorrow. Sharing information with these external users presents both new opportunities and new challenges. Connecting and collaborating with your customers, partners, and suppliers can quickly take your business to the next level. Companies that leverage the value of their data realize benefits that expand and improve the business. These are just a few of the benefits you can achieve by sharing your data with external users:

Greater Customer Loyalty
Offer a richer experience by providing your customers with access to your data, increasing their bond with you and improving retention rates.

Increased Revenue
Leverage the inherent value of your data and create new revenue opportunities by offering your data and related reports, dashboards, and analytical tools as a subscription service to your customers.

Improved Process Efficiency
Provide your suppliers access to your data to help them improve forecasting and better manage inventory demand.

The challenge is providing your new, external users with an easy way to access your data, regardless of their own in-house technical architecture. With every company using different platforms, operating systems, and hardware, it's nearly impossible to provide data access with a tool that works in every environment. Plus, training every new external user would be prohibitively time-consuming and expensive.

Software-as-a-Service is the key to extending applications
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) can help solve the challenge of extending your applications and data. SaaS describes offering an application as a service that is provided to customers over the Internet, eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own computer. Where application service providers (ASPs) typically host a software instance for a single company, SaaS allows the software to be provided as a service to multiple companies.

SaaS is quickly increasing in popularity and use. About a third of those interviewed by InformationWeek said they are already using a SaaS application and another third are considering SaaS or planning to adopt. Gartner's research says that by 2011, 25% of all new business software will be delivered as SaaS.

SaaS licensing model for Analyzer lets you offer Analyzer as the front-end solution for data access to your to their customers, partners, and suppliers. Analyzer allows companies to host their reporting and analysis locally, but deliver it globally.

Analyzer lets you do what you do best
Delivering Analyzer as a service to your external users lets you focus on your own business, not on business intelligence or technology. No more worries about developing and maintaining home-grown systems. Resources are freed from troubleshooting and supporting end user reporting tools, and can focus on higher development priorities. Costs to deliver these tools, including software development, infrastructure maintenance, and personnel, are significantly reduced.

There are a number of reasons why Analyzer is the perfect solution for your external reporting and analysis requirements:

Multi-Tenant Architecture: Analyzer supports multi-tenancy so you can host multiple customers, each with their own separate and secure data, users, reports, and dashboards.
Easy to use: Intuitive user interface means no need to train your remote and external users
Professional look and feel: Flexible reports, powerful analytics, and visually compelling dashboards offer a wide range of functionality
Zero-footprint client: No software to install or maintain
Customizable: Use out of the box or integrate into your existing applications
Scalable: Built to grow as you grow
Secure: Easy to protect data across customers so that each external user only sees the information they should
Simple to maintain: Initial installation and upgrades to the software are done in a single location instead of for every company or even every user.
Reduced cost: Competitive SaaS pricing model beats cost of building in-house
Seamless integration with Microsoft: Connects quickly to SQL Server Analysis Services® and Reporting Services®.

Analyzer SaaS Model