iOM Lanka showcases iOM BI

iOM Lanka showcased iOM Business Intelligence (iOM BI), an addition to its range of software solutions.

iOM BI is designed to provide organisations, particularly small and medium enterprises (SMEs), with cost-effective business analytics to give historical, current and predictive views of business operations for strategic planning and informed decision-making.

According to AMI-Partners (Actionable Market Intelligence), SMEs in the Asia-Pacific region are expected to continue boosting their focus on scalable public cloud applications with investments close to $1.5 b in Software-as-a-service (Saas) solutions. iOM BI which can be run as a cloud-based application is looking to address this growth market.

"An on-demand business analytics system such as iOM BI offers SMEs both flexibility and scalability as they grow their business," said Vice President, iOM, John Salmon.

"Users can easily set up their own reports for analysis without requiring technical assistance. As a web-based application, iOM BI can also be accessed via hand-held devices such as tablets and smartphones," he said.

These functions provide a single source (Data Cube) to analyse an enterprise's information from multiple databases (such as MS SQL, IBM DB2 and Oracle) through data mining, warehousing, and extraction using iOM BI. The resulting single source offers not only historical but also current views of operations, based on scheduled updates of the Data Cube.