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Market Survey Reveals Dashboard Use Extends Throughout the Enterprise; Noetix Dashboard Shares Enterprise Business Intelligence Across Business UnitsBELLEVUE, Wash. --(Business Wire)-- April 5, 2005 -- Noetix(R) Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence content from enterprise applications, today announced that results from a nationwide market survey on enterprise business intelligence (BI) dashboard use revealed the value of deploying dashboards to business units across the enterprise. The market survey was conducted on behalf of Noetix by Riley Research Associates. Half of the more than 50 top-level executives and IT managers surveyed at businesses with revenues between $100 million and $1 billion say they plan to purchase a dashboard in the near future in order to give managers and employees across their organizations increased visibility into business performance. Once exclusively targeted to high-level executives who needed more insight into the daily health of the business, dashboards are now being used by all levels of the organization. This further penetration across the enterprise is a result of an increased focus on performance management, accountability and regulatory compliance. For example, Trinity Industries Inc., headquartered in Dallas and one of North America's largest manufacturers of transportation, construction and industrial products, is using a dashboard solution to share intelligence throughout its enterprise's business units. "We chose the Noetix Dashboard based, in part, on the overwhelming success of the NoetixViews for Oracle Applications, and the Noetix QueryServer application," said David Akina, senior IT project manager. "Those tools allowed our end users to extract transactional data ad hoc. Now that we have access to the information, we plan to use the Noetix Dashboard to share and display it in a standardized, meaningful way among our various business units. We expect to reduce the current practice of sharing data via spreadsheet e-mails." According to the majority of the respondents in this survey, dashboard development and implementation can take between one and six months. The bulk of this time is spent accessing the data and populating the dashboard with relevant key performance indicators. The Noetix Dashboard is unique in that it is built on proprietary Noetix MetaBuilder technology. Noetix MetaBuilder uses an auto-discovery process to "crawl" a customer's specific application database and generate relevant business intelligence content based on their configurations. While other solutions focus primarily on the speed at which they can create the graphical front end, Noetix zeroes in on the most difficult and time-consuming task of populating and managing dashboards. Noetix's auto-discovery tool maps to the relevant data and multiple data sources within the first few days of implementation. This unique process provides Noetix customers with the potential to bring immediate ROI to their organization. About Noetix More than 1,200 customers worldwide use Noetix to quickly and cost-effectively access the enterprise application data they need to make important business decisions every day. Noetix provides software that automatically generates metadata from enterprise applications, enabling immediate access to data. Unlike most business intelligence tools that require weeks of extensive manual mapping to set up and maintain, Noetix uses patented technology to automatically discover and produce metadata based on customers' specific implementations of Oracle Applications or Siebel CRM. Noetix provides this BI content with easy search and navigation capability, empowering users to quickly generate the ad hoc operational reports needed to make critical and timely business decisions. Noetix's proven technology is being used by industry-leading customers worldwide, including: CompUSA, Motorola, Starbucks, Toshiba, Visa and Xerox International Partners. The company is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., with international operations based in London. For more information about Noetix, visit the Web site at http://www.noetix.com or call toll free at 866-4NOETIX. About Riley Research Associates Riley Research Associates is a 15-year-old marketing and communications research firm headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Noetix is a registered trademark of Noetix Corp. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
