ISTUG Reporting
 October 22nd 2003
An Introduction to Enterprise Cyberquery
Jerry Bolt
Cyberscience

Agenda
Cyberscience Corporation
Why companies need Business Intelligence
Why companies choose Cyberquery
Case Studies
Enterprise Cyberquery (eCQ) pricing
Summary and Questions

Cyberscience
Privately-owned British company, founded in 1977 with offices in UK (HQ), USA and Australia
3 Divisions. eCQ, Forte and Cyberscreen
Product focus
50% of Revenue reinvested into R&D
4000 Customers
25 years BI experience

Why companies need Business Intelligence
Release the value of your ERP systems
Keep up with competition
Data-Rich, Information-Poor (DRIP)?
Loading on IT department
Cost of bespoke reports

Why companies choose Enterprise Cyberquery
Single Product – one licence, one learning curve
Data Dictionary
Drag ‘n’ Drop editing
Data Staging
Viewpoints
Q-Director
Automatic Excel output
Launchpad
Server-centric for centralised control
Remote accessibility

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Why companies choose Enterprise Cyberquery
No CUBE or Data Warehouse required
No extra modules to buy later
No SQL expertise required
No limit to the number of Apps or data types
No Licence Fees up-front
No long-term ROI to justify

Case Study 1
Major Tetra CS3 user
130 Sites in the UK
AIX 4.2 and 4.3 , Informix SE and Online
350 existing reports
No in-house expertise
Reliant on external consultants

Case Study 1
Cyberquery enabled them to
Develop 200 key reports themselves
Remove cost of external support
Deploy pre-developed reports to all local sites
Now less than 1 FTE to develop and manage
Zero Effort upgrade to GUI or WEB
5-100 times quicker than previous system !

Case Study 2
Major Baan user in the UK
Highly Complex Reporting Requirement
Multi-Layer Management
What we’ve done so far…
Finance Reporting Project
Cyborg HR & Siebel CRM
Budget Module

Case Study 2
Finance Reporting Project
Reporting on three levels
Board Pack
Business Level (14 Businesses)
Site Level (86 Locations)

Case Study 2
Finance Reporting Project
Board Pack (Redbook)  20 Reports, 120+ charts pm
Performance Statements
Profit and Loss Statements
Balance Sheets
Operating Statements
Debtors Analyses
Key Performance Indicators

Case Study 2
Finance Reporting Project
Business Reports  (420 Reports produced per month)
Profit and Loss Statements
Gross Margin Analyses
Direct and Indirect Cost Analyses
Headcount Analysis
Key Performance Indicators

Case Study 2
Finance Reporting Project
Site Reports  (3050 Reports produced per month)
Profit and Loss Statements
Gross Margin Analyses
Direct and Indirect Cost Analyses
Headcount Analysis
Key Performance Indicators

Case Study 2
Information Deployment
Static Reporting
All static Financial reports generated automatically
Viewers retrieve what they want
Runtime Reporting
Users run enquiries whenever they want
Enquiries parameterised to allow flexibility
Development Reporting
Users create enquiries

Case Study 2
Next Steps
HR & CRM
Sales
Purchasing
Web Reporting

Enterprise Cyberquery Pricing Model
Monthly subscription with no minimum term
Pay after you use – for exactly what you’ve used
No Shelfware
No up-front capital spend on licences
No additional Annual Maintenance
Monthly charges start at…

Summary
Already proven to handle the complexity of ERP
Empowers ALL of your users
Transforms the value of your other applications
We take all the risk – you get all the benefit

Thank you !
Questions ?
Jerry Bolt – 07970 676558
jkb@cyberscience.com