ECS Announces New, Affordable BI Tool

Enterprises Computing Services Inc (ECS), a software development and services company, announces the release of ECSDTool Enterprise, an easy-to-use ad hoc query, analysis (OLAP) and reporting tool. This latest BI tool boasts an affordable price, ease-of-use, enhanced processing speed, powerful feature set, Web capabilities and advanced administrator controls.

"ECSDTool Enterprise outperforms similar products offered by Cognos, Brio and Business Objects," says Shekhar Iyer, president of ECS. "ECSDTool Enterprise is easier to use, faster and much more affordable. Users can acquire a single comprehensive package to do the work of multiple packages offered by competitors."

Features include:

Data Access

• View data from multiple OLE DB-compliant databases
• Automatically "maps" a database, including relationships among tables
• Automatically generates the "metadata layer" residing between the query tool and database

Ad Hoc Query

• Quickly drill down, summarize up, and filter data using the "push pin"
• Drag and drop for customized data views
• Data aggregation features help you make sense of your data
• Queries can be shared as a View or Table -- Export capability to HTML, Excel or save and print results as a report
• Custom calculations including formulas

Analysis/Data Mining

• Differential analysis ("Explain Capability") for statistical and trending analysis
• Virtual cubes -- Build multidimensional data cubes FAST with the cube wizard
• Drag and drop dimensions within the cube
• Select multiple measures and multiple dimensions between one or more tables
• Dimension hierarchy functionality

Reporting

• "Point and Click" report generation -- Print or export standard ad hoc queries or easily design professional reports
• Create clear, colorful graphs

Advanced Features

• Server side architecture
• Virtual Cubing
• Web access to data cubes
• Push technology
• Automatically creates SQL code that can be used by programmers
• Vertical and horizontal security features control individual and group access and can be applied at the database, table, column, filter (row), dimension or measure level

ECS will demonstrate the new tool at the TDWI World Conference May 22-23 in Washington, DC.

Enterprises Computing Services Inc (ECS), is an Atlanta-based software development and services company. Founded in 1994, ECS provides analytical information management systems for the healthcare, financial, education and telecommunication industries. For more information on ECSDTool Enterprise, please visit www.ecsdtool.com or call ECS at 1-877-327-8060 and ask for the ECSDTool Enterprise trial version and information kit.

Contact Nicole Foster, 770-591-8060, nicole@ecsinc.net.