incadea.bi

Business Intelligence (BI) refers to skills, technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business Intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself. BI applications provide historical, current and forecasting views on business operations. The goal is to gain insights into business operations.

BI is not only reporting but also gathering, storing, providing and analyzing data. Business Intelligence often aims to support better business decision-making. Thus, a BI system can also be called a decision support system (DSS).

incadea.engine can handle multiple data from many different sources. The knowledge of your dealerships' data is verry important for business steering. For this reason, incadea has developed a tool for user-friendly presentations of important organizational data.

The focus is clearly on automotive market requirements:

• Transparent reporting including graphical display opportunities
• An easy-to-use and flexible all-inclusive solution based on standard automotive cubes and reports
• Solution with integration in Microsoft Office system
• Consolidation of data from different sources

The integrated incadea.bi solution is based on Microsoft standard technology that is using Microsoft SQL server with SQL server integrated services (SQL server, SQL server reporting services, SQL server analysis services and SQL server integration services) and, as client application "incadea Management Cockpit". The processes to build are delivered by the data warehouse (staging database) and the basic cubes for analyses are designed by incadea and covers the needs of the automotive business. 

Levels of Business Intelligence

incadea.bi delivers ad hoc information on different business levels in a company. This can be the operational, the tactical or the strategic level so BI covers every single stage in an organization. incadea.bi enables the user to conduct ad hoc analysis and reports on the operational level. Trends and dashboards for branch or make/department comprise the tactical level and finally incadea.bi covers the strategic level with KPI and score cards for groups and companies.

Features & Benefits of incadea.bi

• Transparency - get to know your daily business (revenues, gross profits, resource utilization etc.)
• Comprehensiveness - easily find detailed information in your reports (control your vehicle sales department gross profit and drill through the single vehicle sales on demand)
• Customization - adjust your analysis yourself (add, place or remove the service advisor name in your sales invoice overview)
• Compatibility - utilize your analysis in MS Office (highlight the most profitable items in your monthly parts sales statistic with the conditional formatting opportunities of MS Excel)
• Visibility - use graphical displays instead of figures (show the most powerful vehicle sales person of the month in the chart)

Opportunities for your business

• Enables sophisticated reporting for all functional areas of your business
• Provides in-depth knowledge about company operations
• Reduces costs by minimizing the time required to collect relevant business data
• Responds faster to new opportunities and changing demands of the market
• Simplifies graphical presentation of KPIs and metrics
• Enables much quicker and fact-based decision making - DSS
• Optimizes performance for fast retrievals of relatively large volumes of data
• Supports economical requirements of an organization in-depth
• Eases organizational information management by its central and integrated BI environment

incadea.bi consists of the Management Cockpit including dashboards based on pivot tables, grid and line reports - comprising more than 50 carefully designed predefined standard analysis objects which will be described subsequently - and the administration.

incadea.bi offers powerful analysis and reports of the following core areas:

• General Ledger
• Bank Ledger
• Vendor Ledger
• Customer Ledger
• Fixed Assets
• Parts
• Vehicles
• Service

Management Cockpit

The Management Cockpit is a user-friendly, multilingual BI tool developed by incadea having the following core features:

• User-friendly, Outlook like interface
• Microsoft Office oriented platform
• 3 types of provided objects: Dashboards based on pivot tables, grid reports, line reports
• Easy implementation, quick user training and quick user acceptance
• All types of objects can be easily customized
• Scalable from small to big companies
• Combination and consolidation of data from different data sources
• Pre-defined simplified data model for all supported incadea versions suitable for automotive standard processes
• Free definition of groups and subgroups, user and user templates with permissions
• Supported incadea databases: SQL Server and C/Side