The current number of existing formats and data files is a chance for complex Business Intelligence suites which consist of all required tools, once these days purchasing each tool separately no longer is payable. One of such complete solutions is TARGIT BI Suite by TARGIT, a company originated from Denmark. The company has quickly expanded, and is placed among the most recognized Business Intelligence solutions vendors from all over the world. Definitely, it's BI Suite's contribution. The suite is praised for its universality and the list of its users begins with Mercedes-Benz managers.

TARGIT BI Suite in general

The main area of TARGIT BI Suite's usages focuses on decision making. With numerous and advanced analytical capabilities, the suite supports its users regardless of the branch or level of company's hierarchy they're in. Working quickly and covering all subjects of decision maker's interest, the solution is a worth-considering alternative to other platforms.  In the very short, the strongest features are intelligent dashboards and agents, dynamic reports and analyses, and sentinels. With data being dynamically visualized and modified on the fly, the BI Suite supports all processes connected to Key Performance Indicators analyzing and - therefore - optimizing.

Main features

The core of BI Suite is well-developed dynamic analyses system supported with meta-morphing. As a result, there are only a few mouse clicks needed for each analyze to get begun. Once there values can be added to each data or whole groups of data, the analyzing became even more efficient. On the other hand, there is a complete report studio allowing its users to share data immediately with all interested users. However, reports spread can be restrained - once the reports can be forwarded through e-mails, via intranet, and portals, it's easier than ever before to control the group of each information receivers. Finally, it's simple to access the suite with iPhone or iPad - thank to author's application TARGIT iTop,   the new level of communication was made accessible.

TARGIT Cloud is responsible for facilitating and accelerating analytics making process, while the Intelligent Dashboards - another author's tool - and scorecards support interactivity, and the Storyboard is a tool made for making data presentation (during company meetings, for instance) more attractive. Another (chosen only) elements of TARGIT BI Suite are as follows:

• Corporate Communication - supports internal communication within the organization.
• Desktop - attaches a handy toolbar allowing users to follow BI suite's indications from Windows desktop.
• NET - a module enabling online access to suite's resources.
• Hyper Related OLAP drives users from general objects within a calculation form to what's behind them.
• Sentinels are watches and alerters helping with immediate reacting to market changes.
• Intelligent Search supports using unstructured data from different documents and helps with combining them with what's already been structured and hierarchized.

TARGIT Business Intelligence Suite resources

http://www.targit.com/en/Products/TARGIT_BI_Suite - vendor's website is a compendium of knowledge about BI Suite. However, the most interesting part is hidden below producer's information, where there is a red box located. There, after clicking on "Surveys / Reviews", we're getting an access to two interesting articles devoted to the platform. Written by TEC and BARC authors - what ensures the renown - they're a good answer on how the TARGIT's suite is seen by professionals. Here is also where you could find a web-based or downloadable demo to experience the platform in practice.

http://www.databasejournal.com/sqletc/article.php/3886156/Targit-Business-Intelligence-Suite.htm - here's an article written more or less from technical point of view. Author - Peter Evans - focuses mostly on checking how the "minimum clicks" idea works in practice. Nevertheless, not only the advantages were pointed. If you know a thing about what TARGIT BI suite is and want to read specialist's opinion on solution as a whole and - especially - system's architecture, then this article should be able to meet your expectations.

http://issuu.com/targit/docs/2k10_eng - even though the 2k11 release of TARGIT BI Suite is near to come, it might be worth to discover the main features of the newest currently accessible version. Here all the features are very well described what - followed with numerous illustrations - makes the brochure quite a good summarization of the suite's crucial aspects.