Sharperlight – Overview
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‘Cross Operational Reporting’
You need to analyse, view and report from all applicaitons or modules that govern your business process not operate in data silos with difficult reporting. Integration of your various applications does not mean reengineering your business processes. Sharperlight will take advantage of new and modern business systems giving you the edge to make timely and accurate decisions on real data. Creating a view of your entire operation with data at your fingertips.

‘Interactive reporting – more than just sorting and filtering’
You have complete control over how and what is reported and who has access. Through our client reporting tools your users can create reports and access restricted data without a complicated report development cycle.
‘Free yourself – Minimize IT and development time’– The Analyst
You are freed from the conventional technical requirements to create readable Transactional, Operational and Analytical reports using tools that you already understand, across many applications. Freed from the requirement to upgrade all your systems to unify on a single platform.An easy to use interface will help to build the most complex reports. Sharperlight uses industry standard drivers to access your data and presents a unified approach to access data from multiple systems and modules from Financial data through to Operational data and everything in between. You are freed from having to create multiple staging data storage warehouse processes and able to drill to the original and underlying data. Freed to use an intuitive Business Intelligence layer that takes the pain and complexity out of reporting.

‘View your whole operation’- The Executive
SharperLight uses a number of client interfaces to deliver reporting to the fingertips of the consumer SQL Server Report Services delivers reporting through a .Net provider and with live drill down to trasactional data. SharperLight Explorer provides drill capabilities and reporting via a browser.

‘Built for this Millennium’
SharperLight will take applicaitions into this millenium with easy access ‘drag and drop’ report development functionality using recognisable reporting objects across your diverse processes. SharperLight is priced to compete and requires minimal consultancy and no onsite resources for report development.
Sharperlight minimizes the time to develop and maintain reports by offering a single source Business Intelligence in the form of a Dynamic DataModel which is then used by the entire Reporting user base.

‘Consistent Interfaces’
Sharperlight uses the same query interfaces to minimize retraining the inconsistencies between reporting applications. This gives the Business Analyst the power to create the required reports using the best platform for distribution with confidence.

‘Remote and Central DataModels’
SharperLight offers remote users and enterprises the ability to centralize DataModels accessing their data securely through the SharperLight query engine remotely and directly into Excel. Your solution can be tailored to suit your applications from a single interface without having to change the reporting model. The DataModel is a user interactive and dynamic metadata layer that abstracts the complexity of the underlying database structure.

