iQ4bis offers the easiest to use end-to-end Business Intelligence Solution for JD Edwards. With iQ4bis you can quickly and easily shift reporting responsibilities away from IT and put Ad Hoc reporting into the hands of end business users.

Top 5 challenges regarding RDA & WorldWriter

With iQ4bis

The inability to easily join data from JD Edwards with multiple tables into a single report, much less data from non-JDE sources i.e. Excel (example Budget), another ERP, CRM even a legacy database!

iQ4bis provides an extremely flexible and robust technology that allows you to easily join data from multiple disparate systems, as well as multiple tables within JDE.

Converting Julian format into something that is legible   

Example (108031) = 1/31/2008.

iQ4bis simplifies reporting by automatically converting Julian dates into legible dates

Converting UDC (user defined codes) to the actual description.

iQ4bis makes your data more transparent to end business users who may be unfamiliar with the UDCs in JD Edwards and allows you to easily alias UDC to something recognizable.

One report generates 10 new requests. 

"The Reporting Ping Pong".

iQ4bis’ Dashboard is extremely easy for your end users to learn. Instead of coming to IT or even a power user with reporting requests, users can easily find the information they need with just a few clicks.

Enabling end users to become self-sufficient for information WITHOUT relying on IT!

Through the data warehouse, iQ4bis hides the complexity of the data in JD Edwards empowering your business users to ask and answer their own questions without IT intervention.

 Why iQ4bis?

1.   Lowest Total Cost of Ownership iQ4bis Dataserver simplifies implementation as well as ongoing maintenance to make managing your BI infrastructure fast and easy.

2.   Fast ROI iQ4bis implementation takes only 2 weeks(average) and is the lowest cost complete solution available today. Most of our clients have come to a positive ROI within a few months.

3.   Easy to use Training for your non technical business users is 10 minutes. IT professionals can learn to build a data warehouse within days.

4.   Experience working with JD Edwards Nearly 1/3 of our clients use JD Edwards as an ERP. iQ4bis provides Pre-built Solutions specifically for JD Edwards including: Sales Analysis, Finance Analysis (GL, Actual vs. Budget, AR/AP, Cashflow), Inventory and Supply Chain Scorecards.

5.   Flexible and Robust iQ4bis is database agnostic and works with virtually any data source. You can pull all of your systems together into a single Enterprise reporting tool using iQ4bis.

6.   No Cost Proof of Concept iQ4bis is the only complete BI solution to back up its claims with a no cost proof of concept. You can see your own data in our system before ever having to make a financial commitment!

 

A few quotes from our customers on JD Edwards systems:

iQ4bis sits on top of our multiple data sources so we can look at sales, or eventually inventory, procurement, financial, and other information, no matter what the ERP source.” - Glenn Pinnel, Applications Director, King Pharmaceuticals


“ERP is a great tool for transactional processing and linking operational areas like manufacturing, supply chain, and finance.  But it does a terrible job with reporting. iQ4bis’ unlocks the data for your users so they can move the business forward. - Glenn Pinnel, Applications Director, King Pharmaceuticals
 
“The BI application we selected had to be cost-effective, integrate cleanly with JDE and easy to operate so that our management team could find the information they were looking for. iQ4bis was installed and validated in two weeks.” - Ron Myshka, Vice President Information Services, E.A.Sween
 
“iQ4bis has benefitted us in two major ways. First, we used it as a tool to identify and remedy problem areas in our data. Secondly, we now had the ability to drill through the data in ways never available to us before. Using iQ4bis we have identified not only problem areas but, more importantly, business opportunities. Additionally, iQ4bis has provided us an extremely flexible, user friendly tool to monitor both. The net result has been that even with the realities of today’s business environment, we’ve been able to improve sales margins compared to prior years.” - Excelda Manufacturing
 
“iQ4bis lets me quickly analyze my data and make a decision about what and how I manufacture through the day.  For each hour that goes by that I can’t get data, that’s an hour that I can’t get my manufacturing group started on what they need to build.” - Marlys Clay, VP of Vendor Managed Inventory, First Look Studios
 
“Not only can we access the data, but we can transform it into intelligent business information. iQ4bis helps us understand customer buying patterns and analyze trends and hot spots in our business fast and accurately.” - Craig Laurent, IT Technical Manager, Merck Sharp and Dohme
 
“Our CEO is an enthusiastic user. iQ4bis lets him keep current with trends and patterns that were almost impossible to perceive before iQ4bis.” - John Smith, Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Manager, Ampacet Corp.

“With iQ4bis, we have a global view of our operations.” - John Smith, Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Manager, Ampacet Corp.
 
“Looking at key performance indicators on a regular basis lets us deal with situations as they happen, instead of finding out months too late that we’re not focused on the right products, or on the right sales trends.” - Scott Guzek, Director of IT, Midwest

“I don’t believe we would have been as successful with our initiative to decrease E&O inventory if it weren’t for the visibility provided by iQ4bis.” - Fred Berndt, Manager of Sales Analysis and Financial Planning, Midwest
 
“The analytical capabilities delivered by iQ4bis are absolutely critical to our goals of cost containment and margin preservation.” - Marc Gottlieb, Director of ERP Systems, Nellson Nutraceutical

“iQ4bis enabled our new ownership group to have the understanding of this business that they needed to move forward with their acquisition strategy.” - Marc Gottlieb, Director of ERP Systems, Nellson Nutraceutical