DecisionPoint Applications Introduces Industry's First Packaged Data Warehouse Solution For Human Resources And Distribution
DecisionPoint Applications, Inc. has extended its DecisionPoint product line with the introduction of two new product family members: DecisionPoint for Human Resources and DecisionPoint for Distribution.
Components of DecisionPoint, the first and only packaged data warehouse solution in the world, DecisionPoint for Human Resources and DecisionPoint for Distribution provide human resources, manufacturing, logistics and distribution personnel with a pre-integrated, end-to-end data warehousing infrastructure and applications, installed in eight weeks or less, at a fixed cost. Together with DecisionPoint for Financials, these two new DecisionPoint products provide organizations with access to the critical, detailed financial, human resources and distribution data stored in ERP production environments -- core information required for all commercial decision-making processes.
"The detailed operational data that organizations need to report to external regulatory agencies, shareholders and trading partners ought to be the basis of every enterprise-wide commercial decision support system (DSS) or data warehouse. Yet this kind of data is the most difficult kind of information for decision-makers to obtain," said Marc Demarest, chief executive officer for DecisionPoint Applications. "Rather than complicating the data warehousing problem by introducing yet another stove-piped technology component, DecisionPoint provides a complete, end-to-end, pre-integrated data warehousing infrastructure at a fraction of the cost of custom-built and integrated data warehouses. And because our products are pre-integrated, they can be installed and fully deployed in any organization in eight weeks or less."
"DecisionPoint is the best packaged data warehouse solution on the market for an organization looking to quickly and cost-effectively implement a complete decision support system based on transaction-level detail," said Michael Prince, chief information officer at Burlington Coat Factory. "We selected DecisionPoint Applications' products because we needed reporting and analysis capabilities based on detailed financial data, and DecisionPoint offered a clearly superior alternative to summarized multidimensional reporting tools and long and costly in-house data warehouse construction projects."
Complementing DecisionPoint for Financials, DecisionPoint for Human Resources and DecisionPoint for Distribution extend an organization's view of its core decisional data sets -- data about money, people, products and services, and customers -- and validate DecisionPoint Applications' contention that the DecisionPoint product family is in fact a buy-it-by-the-data-set extensible enterprise data warehousing infrastructure.
"Most organizations see only the narrow, stove-piped, functional DSS requirements," said Larry Scheurich, DecisionPoint Applications' chief technology officer. "That is, they look at their financial DSS, human resources DSS, or distribution DSS needs. What they often don't see is that there is always another class of requirements: the need to analyze expense data enriched by human resources demographics, or the need to see the sales contact-to-cash cycle time, which involves sales force automation, distribution and financial data sets. Stove-piped data marts can never address the second kind of problem, where the opportunity for real business understanding and transformation is found. We've designed DecisionPoint to solve both kinds of DSS problems functional and cross-functional."
DecisionPoint for Human Resources is a packaged, pre-integrated, end-to-end decision support system that provides decision-makers in all areas of the organization with access to the full range of critical human resources data residing in the organization's PeopleSoft, Oracle or SAP HRMS system. Supported Business Domains include Payroll Analysis, Benefits Analysis, Leave Analysis and Employee Analysis. IT professionals may add custom Analytical Domains to DecisionPoint for Human Resources to support specific business needs within the organization. Customers who are already using DecisionPoint for Financials can add the Source Experts and Business Domains from DecisionPoint for Human Resources to their existing DecisionPoint Warehouse in as little as two weeks with no changes to the underlying warehouse software.
DecisionPoint for Distribution provides decision-makers with detailed distribution data, including inventory transactions, backlog, purchasing detail and sales order entry detail from Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and other packaged order entry and manufacturing environments. Focused on the tight analytical couplings between inventory data, sales order entry data and purchasing data, DecisionPoint for Distribution allows organizations to bridge the chasms between their manufacturing, sales and financial ERP systems and, for the first time, subject their sales, inventory and purchasing cycle to detailed analysis. Customers who are already using DecisionPoint for Financials can add the Source Experts and Business Domains from DecisionPoint for Distribution to their existing DecisionPoint Warehouse in as little as four weeks with no changes to the underlying warehouse software.
DecisionPoint for Human Resources and DecisionPoint for Distribution are available immediately through DecisionPoint Applications' worldwide sales force and through a global network of DPA-certified system integrators, with prices beginning at U.S. $100,000.
For more information on DecisionPoint products, visit DecisionPoint Applications' Web site at http://www.dpapplications.com or call 800/970-5372.
DecisionPoint Applications, Inc., headquartered in Portland, Oregon, is the market leader in packaged data warehousing applications. The DecisionPoint family of packaged data warehouse environments materially improve the quality, speed and effectiveness of decision-making processes. The DecisionPoint product family provides customers with pre-integrated, end-to-end data warehousing infrastructure and applications, installed in eight weeks or less at a fixed cost and with guaranteed returned business value.
DecisionPoint Applications, Inc. has offices in San Francisco, Atlanta, New York, Dallas, Chicago, London and Sydney. For further information, contact DecisionPoint Applications, Inc. at 10260 SW Greenburg Rd., Suite 530, Portland, OR 97223; phone: 800/970-5372, 503/768-3649; or visit the company's Web site at http://www.dpapplications.com.