Simplify and save time. InfoPlanIT Visual Analyzer (IVA) Add-In lets you do plenty of both while making it easier than ever to get your data (live and updated!) into Powerpoint or Excel.

A frequent story we’ve heard from business managers involves the need to gather data, metrics, sales performance, inventory turns, RMA’s, etc., then go about the process of analyzing that data for a monthly report, all of which will typically populate a few PowerPoint slides. Many companies also have an Excel spreadsheet for collecting this intermediary information.

Over time a routine has formed where managers will pull the data from the company’s various systems, reformat it, then paste it into Excel. Once in Excel, time to figure out what’s going on and perhaps write up a summary. Summaries and Excel sheets, once ready, then make their way into PowerPoint slides. A report is born. We’ve seen this process take days, even weeks, to complete depending on the complexity and systems.

With IVA and the introduction of IVA Add-In, the entire process of updating these reports can be accomplished in minutes.

Click “update,” revise notes, save as a new report and a report is now completed in a fraction of the time with countless work hours saved. The savings of days and weeks of effort over the course of a year adds up to a lot more time to focus on making better decisions and what’s important to your business. Multiply that savings by every manager that has to submit a report each month or even each week, and you can start to see why we’re so excited!

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In the early days of enterprise technology services, scale was accomplished through high levels of standardisation and low opportunities for customisation. This was possible and economical because mainframes carried the workload of nearly all the transactional and informational needs, and it was necessary because the IT teams were very small. Back then, simple things like creating or modifying reports meant months of waiting, and dashboards for running your business were beyond the reach of nearly everyone.

But technology capabilities and what we expect from them have moved on. Read more…

New Product Announcement – InfoPlanIT Visual Analyzer

InfoPlanIT Releases Visual Analyzer Business Intelligence Software

InfoPlanIT, Business Intelligence solutions specialists, announce the release of their new Business Intelligence software program called Visual Analyzer.

Schaumburg, IL, USA 22 April 2011 – InfoPlanIT has announced the release of their new Business Intelligence software program, InfoPlanIT Visual Analyzer.

InfoPlanIT Visual Analyzer is aimed at giving companies greater control over their data, including tracking business trends, targeting benchmarks and KPIs, and visually communicating data in customizable, easy-to-interpret charts and tables.

With three tiered editions, Standard, Professional, and Enterprise, InfoPlanIT has a Visual Analyzer to fit the needs of any business, of any size. Read more…

Industry Focus: Manufacturing

Size: 2400 employees; Headquartered in Hampton, Virginia with US offices in California, Ohio, and Massachusetts; Eight international sites in China, Ireland, France, Germany, and Switzerland.

Challenges: Started with Excel and Access but quickly found those tools to be cumbersome and extremely difficult to manage. More time was wasted by employees trying to figure out the tools than was spent analyzing the data. Version control became a serious issue as users ‘Saved As’ their own versions of standard reports. Read more…

As part of the launch of our new website, we’ve created a new resource center where we’ll be posting case studies, video demos, tutorials, product feature updates and more! Keep checking back to see what’s new or just follow us on Twitter or Facebook.

Kevin Quincy joins InfoPlanIT in September 2010 as their Director of Marketing and Corporate Strategy Development.

Mr. Quincey has 20+ years of diverse experience across several industries, business disciplines, and core technology specialties. He is the owner and strategic consultant at New Ways Solutions, Ltd. and was recently an Enterprise Strategy Consultant with Microsoft. Read more…