iQ4bis Business Intelligence, previously Q4bis, was founded by Herbert Schoenek in 1988 in Irvine California to help companies analyse their data. And as Q4bis was an independent software provider which had a well-earned reputation for the development and delivery of BI solutions for both the JD Edwards Market and what was to become Microsoft Dynamics.
iQ4Bis can deliver valuable business-ready solutions with its ability to merge an ease-of-use and rapid deployment with the delivery that comes from a system that is based on a pure Microsoft platform. This allows iQ4bis to provide an end-to-end reporting and analytics solution, from the ETL, Data warehouse and OLAP cube creation through to an interactive web based presentation layer for its users.
iQ4bis provides a complete, end-to-end business intelligence solution for executives and managers in midmarket manufacturing and/or distribution enterprises. It has been cleverly adapted to integrate seamlessly with Microsoft Dynamics AX, GP, NAV and CRM, as well as SharePoint portal integration. There is also a new element to iQ4bis which allows users to gain a higher level of intuitiveness, thanks to the new AJAX interface, which allows the browser-based interface to function and behave more like a traditional Windows application. This has been designed to allow non technical users all the advantages that are bestowed on the technical user. If you can use Microsoft Word you can use iQ4bis.
It has also taken all the inherent advantages that you get with SharePoint Portal for BI and used the MOSS application to generate a BI solution that is greater than the sum of its not inconsiderable parts.
The independence that this gives not just middle but upper management allows the users to work with the dashboard and find innovative ways to present data. iQ4bis internally builds multi-dimensional data cubes which are then loaded into Analysis for easy viewing and exploration.
The retrieval of data is also exceptionally fast and allows for the user to retrieve not just from a static source but from any environment that the data currently resides in.
Who should use iQ4bis? The flexibility of this lightweight tool gives non technical managers the ability to change dimensions and measures as they want providing them with a new perspective on their data. These users will also find the ability to export to Excel without losing functionality which is an impressive and necessary bonus, it is a BI solution for those who read reports rather than want to create them.
