Business Intelligence Model

FocalPoint's exclusive business intelligence model (BIM) supports the capture of business information from disparate information systems such as operations, work management, procurement, inventory, customer information, and human resources. It establishes relationships between entities and assets, summarizes and aggregates incoming data in a readily accessible format, and provides views of the data from multiple dimensions for powerful drill down and drill through analysis.

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FocalPoint's BIM combines multiple, predetermined data structures and metadata in a relational database. The standardized data warehouse model combines entities, attributes, relationships, and business rules in order to give enterprises ready access to assets, facts, dimensions, events, real time information, and organizational hierarchies necessary to facilitate timely business decisions. FocalPoint's BIM has the following characteristics:

• Standards-based architecture and design
• Facility to store and manage static data
• Facility to store and manage dynamic (real-time) data
• Ability to integrate data from multiple sources
• Summarizes data for decision support and analysis
• Aggregates data for multi-dimensional and cross discipline analysis
• Provides data suitable for analysis over extended periods of time
• Oriented by business area, function or subject
• Provides integrated information from across the entire organization
• Provides cleansed, reliable data for other business areas such as 'data marts' or DSS