The Blount Group Business Intelligence Suite

The Blount Group's Business Intelligence Suite designed to be used by non-technical business - users. It builds on JasperReports and iReport, the world's most popular professional edition Java reporting library and graphical report designer to provide a comprehensive family of Business Intelligence (BI) products. The suite spans the continuum of BI requirements, including operational reporting, interactive end-user query and reporting, dashboarding, production reporting, data analysis, and data integration. Products are part of an integrated suite utilizing common metadata and shared services such as security, repository, and scheduling. Our software is built on and exposes comprehensive public APIs enabling customization, extensibility, and seamless integration with other applications for businesses.

Web 2.0 Business Intelligence

Designed to be used by nontechnical business users by providing intuitive user interfaces, including extensive use of contemporary interactive Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax and DHTML:

• Web 2.0 User Interfaces - a fully interactive browser-based interface built on Ajax, Dynamic HTML and other Web 2.0 technologies that provide interactive drag-and drop functionality for non-technical business users that rivals the usability and responsiveness of traditional desktop applications, and can be integrated with or embedded in existing Web-based applications.
• Ad Hoc Report Designer - uses Web 2.0 technology to enable business users to easily build their own reports containing tables, crosstabs, and charts, as well as adding calculated fields, sorting, and report styles.
• Ad Hoc Dashboard Builder - uses Web 2.0 technology to create "twinkling" or self-refreshing key performance indicator gauges to be read at a glance and updated in near real-time, and the ability to create mash-up dashboards referencing external content.
• Business View of Data Sources - data source abstraction metadata layer and query generation engine, which provides managed point and click ad hoc query through easy to understand business views (known as "Domains").
• URL-Addressable Content - reports, dashboards, and analysis views reference able through parameterized URLs allows mash- ups with other applications.
• iReport - powerful graphical report designer for building advanced reports.

Enterprise-Class Business Intelligence

The Blount Group is ready to meet the requirements of large enterprises, as well as small and medium sized businesses.

• Web 2.0 interactive repository management user interface – for managing reports, analysis views, and other BI content.
• Web 2.0 "Domain" designer - for building and managing business views of data sources ("Domains") to enable managed ad hoc query for non-technical users via simple business views of data sources.
• Security Integration - built-in Spring Acegi based authentication, authorization, and single sign-on integration with external security systems such as LDAP, Windows Active Directory Services, and more.
• Secure Data Access - granular user/role access control by row, column, cell, report, analysis view, data source, Topic, and Domain.
• Scalable repository - robust, scalable, and secure RDBMS-based storage for a broad range of content and metadata with an intuitive Web 2.0 user interface designed for business users.
• Customizable User Interfaces - web user interfaces are built on public APIs, and are ready to use as is, customized, extended, or entirely replaced.
• Scheduling Services - built in scheduling service provides for offline execution of large or periodic tasks such as standard reports, and automatic secure distribution via email.