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Drive Performance of the Real Estate Enterprise with Business Intelligence
Information is the lifeblood of the organization. Yet many organizations struggle to provide the right information to the right people at the right time, to help them make the right decisions. As the real estate portfolio becomes more complex, ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting™ from ARGUS Software™ provides business intelligence that is crystal clear, so your team can make decisions with confidence.
ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting merges the world’s premier business intelligence system from Business Objects® with executive dashboards, enterprise-wide reports and data warehousing designed by ARGUS Software specifically for the needs of real estate companies. This combination of technology and domain expertise allows users to track performance, understand business drivers, and manage the business—in short, drive enterprise performance.
Track Enterprise Performance
ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting unlocks the data in all of your operational and financial applications, delivering it to a variety of users, via reports, dashboards, Microsoft Office documents and portals.
Understand Business Drivers
We help you understand the information and the business drivers in your organization with comprehensive reporting and powerful query and analysis solutions.
Manage Your Business
ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting also provides you with the tools to manage your business more effectively. Performance management tools, like key performance indicators and alerts, are used to align actions with strategy.
Business Intelligence Standardization
ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting offers you not only the richest end-user experience with industry-leading technology from Business Objects; it also provides a single platform to address all your business intelligence (BI) needs. This helps you significantly improve end-user efficiency. It also reduces duplication in your back-end infrastructure, and lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) by consolidating the number of BI tools and technologies in use.
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- Single business intelligence solution built specifically for the entire real estate portfolio
- Enables transparency and enhances decision processes with reliable, relevant data
- Inner-operable with all ARGUS Software Solutions and most third-party systems and databases
- Rapid time-to-value with much lower integration and data conversion cost and effort
- Graphical and tabular analytics allow you to spot variances and trends faster
- Produce boardroom-quality reports and run complex queries in minutes instead of days
- Creates efficiency by reducing reporting cycle times and related costs while improving communication throughout your company
- Offered in a standalone, shared, or ASP environment
- Developed using Business Objects®, the best-of-breed business intelligence technology
- From ARGUS Software, the trusted source of real estate management software
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Informing Key Decisions across Your Portfolio
The operations of a real estate company literally encompass millions of data points – from high-volume transactions and costs, to complex valuations and budget items. Despite emerging technology standards, corporations will still have the majority of their mission critical information stored within multiple data sources and applications that are simply too costly or too difficult to replace.
Business intelligence across the entire organization has become a mission critical requirement for commercial real estate firms. Making sense out of all this data – consolidating it into meaningful reports, specific to the needs of your constituents, can be one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks your company faces.
Current, accurate information is the only defense against the indecision created by information overload. Both executives and managers are ultimately measured based on the effectiveness of their decisions as they affect company performance. With INSIGHT, making better decisions on your business information becomes a key competitive advantage.
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Ease of use |
- Intuitive, browser-based interface allowing all levels from analysts to executives to be self-sufficient
- Now supports Crystal Reports, increasing access to a large number of skilled report writers
- Reduces the reliance on IT personnel
- Enables users to access and collaborate on information stored in multiple data sources without manual conversion
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Ease of integration |
- Integrate with individual Product Data Stores
- Single data management point and blended data source with ARGUS INSIGHT Reporting Data Warehouse and Operational Data Store
- Warehouse supports continuous updates through ETL (Extract, Transfer and Load) process
- Forward compatible with new platforms, and supports ARGUS Software and other third-party solutions
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Executive Dashboard |
- Graphical views provide quicker recognition of key performance indicators and metrics compared to numerical data reports
- Role-based interfaces to meet the most crucial needs of specific individuals
- Fully customizable screen layout can be easily adjusted and saved
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Report Creation |
- Create sophisticated, boardroom quality reports with images, charts, colors, shading, and multiple fonts
- Publish information for all users, select groups, or individuals
- Save reports in Excel (.xls), Adobe PDF or HTML formats
- Download data for use in spreadsheets and other desktop tools
- Distribute reports on an automated or scheduled basis
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Ad-Hoc Query Creation |
- No command line needed – drag and drop data items to create queries
- Run “what-if” scenarios against data for better decisions
- Data can be viewed as text, cross tabs, or various chart types
- Based on Business Objects’ Web Intelligence™ query tool
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Risk Management Tool |
- Administrators can easily manage, assign, and modify the rights of users
- Enable and disable product functionality, actions and views for specific users or groups
- Leverage existing project-level security
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