Vision
WHY VISION?
EASY TO USE AND IMPLEMENT: Vision enables you to browse and report business data in real time. Familiar Excel, Word or Web environments make the software easy to use and fast to implement, ensuring a low cost of ownership.
QUICK AND EFFECTIVE PUBLISHING: Deliver relevant information across the enterprise via the Web or traditional paper reports.Ad hoc data access helps you find immediate answers to urgent questions.
TRIED AND TRUE TECHNOLOGY: Over 100,000 users in 158 countries worldwide rely on Vision to efficiently create and publish reports. The software is available in 8 different languages.
INTEGRATED PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Reporting is just one aspect of performance management. Roll out a comprehensive CPM strategy in a modular approach with enterprise planning, financial consolidation, balanced scorecard or custom solutions from Infor. The integrated OLAP platform is flexible and scalable enough to meet your current and future needs.
Through timely, accurate reporting you can deliver 90% of the information employees require for day-to-day decision-making. Vision supplies the architecture you need to generate
reports and distribute them efficiently throughout the enterprise.
SELF-SERVICE DESIGN
Since Vision is fully integrated into your choice of Excel, Word or Executive front ends, business users can query, explore and report their data in real time with minimal training. This makes Vision extremely easy to learn and fast to deploy.
MANAGED SPREADSHEET REPORTING
Despite other IT advancements spreadsheets remain the tool of choice for reporting business data. Vision offers the Excel interface and functionality that users know and trust while minimizing the risk of disparate data and manual error. Dynamic links to data sources eliminate the need for thousands of versioned spreadsheets and ensure that all reports maintain a single version of the truth.
Users can extract business data from one or more data sources into a single Excel report. Since Vision directly links to underlying data sources, reports stay up to date without cumbersome maintenance. Additionally, custom user forms and report packs empower non-technical staff to run reports at the click of a mouse.
INTEGRATED ANALYTICS
Built-in analytics help detect and explain trends, problems and opportunities that are often concealed in transactional data. Use Cube Analysis to drill down on live relational data. Save queries as cubes so that you can slice, dice or browse data offline.
Drill down on reports for a detailed view of your data. Report Prompting allows you to define the main criteria that drive the report.
Breakouts automatically create similar reports based upon the combination of the selected output items. Frequently used analytic procedures can be saved and run to update the report.
AUTOMATED EXCEPTION REPORTING
Vision actively monitors your business performance so you don’t have to. Schedule tasks for specific events, metrics or time periods. Vision then automatically e-mails a full report in the desired format to the designated recipients.
ENTERPRISE-WIDE DISTRIBUTION
Vision netEnterprise allows you to store, share and deliver reports to thousands of users via a web browser or Intranet portal.
INTUITIVE DASHBOARDS
Vision Executive transforms existing reports into financial, operational or performance dashboards. Users across the enterprise can then access live business information via a desktop application, standard Web browser or corporate portal.
FLEXIBLE WORD REPORTS
Vision Word provides an optimal tool for creating monthly, management or statutory reports. Users simply add Vision charts and tables of live data to the desired Word document. An enhanced mail merge facilitates the distribution of paper reports.