Small and Medium Firms Now Also Benefit from BI

Large firms have enjoyed the advantages of BI for many years. But only recently have the cost and complexity of BI begun to come down, making BI newly available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and also to departmental organizations and smaller divisions of large companies.

SMEs face a variety of conflicting business drivers:

Research shows that firms that invest in BI tools to work with their ERPs improve performance by:

• Consolidation of GLs
• Improving cash flow - both inflows and outflows
• Including external data to enhance reporting (for example, beyond standard QuickBooks reporting)
• Improving decision-making - from better, more timely information

Junction BI™ Links ERPs with BI

The York Group has released Junction BI™ for QuickBooks, first in a series of ERP-driven products that feed data to Jedox BI Suite and other BI software.

Junction BI™ for QuickBooks retrieves data from QuickBooks® and loads it into Jedox BI Suite and other BI software in near real-time mode. This gives management up-to-date information any time of the day or night.

QuickBooks users are no longer limited to the reports that come with the ERP, but now enjoy the tremendous benefits of viewing data with powerful BI tools.

Other products in the Junction BI family in the pipeline for future release:

• Junction BI™ for SAP Business One
• Junction BI™ for Great Plains
• Junction BI™ for Microsoft NAV

Reporting from Multiple Charts of Accounts

Another product in the family, Junction Mapper™, consolidates multiple charts of accounts for accounting, management, tax, XBRL and other types of reporting.

Typical firms using Junction Mapper™ are companies growing by acquisition or franchisees that need to consolidate information from multiple separate ERPs into one master chart of accounts. This data feeds BI software for reporting. Another example is a firm moving to a new ERP and needing continuous, uninterrupted reporting from the old ERP to the new.

Please contact us if you want to learn more about these products.

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