New EMI+ business intelligence module

MAM Software to introduce innovative software add-on designed to provide high performance interactive reporting and data analysis

Printable version 08 December 2006

MAM Software - the leading factor and retailer software developer - today announced the forthcoming release of EMI+, a high performance reporting and data analysis tool for its existing Autopart software.

The application, which is currently undergoing beta testing, enables businesses to interactively interrogate their sales and product data in order to identify under-performing products or profit weaknesses.

"EMI+ is designed to help our customers improve their bottom line" said Lee Broad, MAM's Director of Software Development. "Its enables managers to quickly and easily analyse their business, identify trends and highlight opportunities for improvement. At a glance, they can instantly detect gaps in buying patterns or isolate sales that are affecting margins."

The new application is being introduced following recent research into users' requirements. "Our users are becoming more analytical in their approach to business management" continued Broad. "The market's seen a rapid growth in demand for Business Intelligence software, but third-party solutions can be costly to implement and have limited scope. EMI+, on the other hand,  has been developed to integrate tightly with Autopart and make maximum use of the available data. With a selection of over 250 data fields and 50 analysis fields, it’s scope for report generation is almost limitless."

EMI+ has been developed using the latest Microsoft.Net technologies. It incorporates embedded On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) functionality, enabling it to analyse extensive multi-dimensional data compiled from various Autopart data sources. Working from pre-built data cubes, the application can perform complex analytical and ad-hoc queries on  millions of rows of data with sub-second response times.

EMI+ presents information in a flexible tabular format. Columns can be shown, hidden or sorted and data can be dynamically filtered, pivoted, drilled down and rolled up. EMI+ also contains a rich array of calculation features including aggregation functions; formulas; percentages; and ranking. This makes EMI+ a powerful tool for performing trend, variance and gap analysis.

Product testing will be completed early next year and EMI+ is expected to be launched in Spring 2007. For further details, please visit www.mamsoft.co.uk/emi