Intelliprise, American Software's Intelligent ERP Solution, Expands Ready-To-Use Data Marts

American Software announced recently the availability of its Supplier Performance data mart, the third in a series of Intelliprise business intelligence tools, which also includes the Channel Performance and Inventory Performance data marts. This introduction provides a complete supply chain business intelligence solution that optimizes the value of Intelliprise - American Software's next-generation integrated supply chain ERP product suite. This advanced, fully integrated solution gives organizations comprehensive enterprise information and analysis capabilities to easily gain perspective and make better decisions with ready-to-use business intelligence.

According to The AMR Alert on Enterprise Application Strategies, February 23, 1999, "Ease of use and ease of understanding are keys to success in the analytic application arena... Here, American Software leads the pack." Intelliprise has eliminated the lengthy and costly implementation required for most business intelligence solutions, by pre-loading its data marts with industry standard metrics such as Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and the Supply Chain Operational Reference model (SCOR). These pre-built data marts provide immediate business intelligence access to multiple classes of users within the enterprise. AMR Research explains, "The Intelliprise user interface, driven from key performance indicators (KPI's), is built for multiple classes of users within an organization. High-level exception analysis directs the user to areas of his or her interest, allowing further exploration of business data."

Business Intelligence For The Entire Supply Chain

• Supplier Performance data mart - Focuses on financial, quality and timeliness factors and incorporates intuitive displays for data mining to provide business intelligence on the complete spectrum of an enterprise's procurement processes throughout the supply chain. With the ability to fully explore procurement activities, companies can evaluate and strengthen relationships with key suppliers as well as analyze and optimize internal procurement processes.
• Channel Performance data mart - Delivers business intelligence on the full spectrum of information regarding a company's sales channel, including measuring customer satisfaction, sales performance and profitability of products, customer relationships, distribution centers and marketing territories.
• Inventory Performance data mart - Addresses financial inventory valuations as well as inventory turn levels to provide business intelligence on the full spectrum of information relating to a company's inventory investment. This gives executives the data and analysis capabilities to easily optimize their inventory operations through better decision-making.

"These advanced business intelligence capabilities unleash the power of Intelliprise, allowing enterprises to realize immediate ROI on their ERP investment," said James C. Edenfield, president and CEO of American Software. "Intelliprise has been designed to provide businesses with the information and system flexibility to respond rapidly to the changing business demands of a global supply chain."

American Software's Intelliprise data mart solution allows for consistent, one-source information across multiple operations, currencies, languages, and even companies. It also helps relieve the burden on company analysts who might traditionally depend on static reports to respond to executive requests. Moreover, Intelliprise supplies periodic business transaction updates to the data warehouse without the costly, time-consuming process of cleansing and preparing data. Collectively, these benefits allow companies to automatically translate raw data into valuable information and, in the process, realize the real value of their ERP system.

Based in Atlanta, American Software develops, markets and supports the industry's most comprehensive offering of integrated business applications, including enterprise-wide supply chain management, Internet commerce, warehouse management, financial and manufacturing packages.

For more information, contact: American Software, 470 East Paces Ferry Rd., Atlanta, GA 30305. (404) 261-4381. FAX: (404) 264-5206. Home page: http://www.amsoftware.com.