Business Intelligence for Effective Data Visualization in a Heartbeat
Companies need access to vital quality data to enable a 360° view of their quality and compliance pulse across the entire organization. These companies find that static reports alone are not sufficient for effective measurement and do not always accelerate decision-making, and thus, they must rely on Business Intelligence Solutions. SmartPulse™ is an intuitive, user-friendly tool, with prebuilt data cubes generated from transactional data that enhances the user’s ability to quickly analyze data, while providing an environment for rapid decision-making. With the ability to drill down into underlying data, companies are able to easily assess key metrics and keep a “pulse point” on their quality and compliance KPIs.

Data Cubes
The normalized transactional data that is stored in the SmartSolve database is extracted on a scheduled and timely basis using Microsoft Analysis Services into SmartPulse OLAP cubes. The data in these OLAP cubes is stored in an easy-to-use format, with which users can create reports without the need to comprehend the data views or complex table joins. The transactional data from different functional areas is extracted into the cubes as dimensional elements. The cube also contains fact fields like Average, Count, Total and others of specific data elements to be analyzed using the Dimensions. The field labels in the cubes are business labels based on the translation file rather than the field labels in the database.

User Interface (UI)
The SmartPulse UI is user friendly, allowing business users to easily create reports and dashboards. The User Interface provides Excel-like options to create multiple worksheets, thus allowing the ability to create different views of the data. Once the report is created it can be easily published to the user community for consumption. The end-users that have access to the reports can run the reports, visualize the data and easily either drill into or collapse the data. Using this intuitive, user-friendly tool and data cubes enables you to:

Simplify Analysis
Using SmartPulse, personnel can visualize data across a collection of records from multiple data sources and, thereby, create management dashboards that translate complex information into high-impact presentations. Users can now perform their own analysis, and filter data during analysis, rather than having to export large amounts of data into spreadsheets to manipulate.

Simplify Reporting
SmartPulse allows you to quickly generate graphs, charts, pivot tables, key metrics, trending analysis, and KPIs, and to publish scorecards to align teams, tactics and strategies. SmartPulse simplifies the visualization of the transactional data, thereby eliminating the time required to run large reports and the reliance on IT to develop new or change existing reports. SmartPulse provides a gateway to deliver at-a-glance real-time information, and easily enable Report Publishing.

Simple, Powerful and Adaptable
SmartPulse provides unique tools for decision makers to explore large quantities of real-time data through a dynamic view of business conditions. Simple data navigation, powerful calculation, and visualization tools are the core components that make Pilgrim Software’s SmartPulse the best at answering the question, “Why?” when it comes to business change.