Overview of Business Intelligence

The Business Intelligence component allows you to explore and analyze a multi-enterprise order, inventory, or catalog data. You can then identify performance trends and make consistent, coordinated decisions to strengthen your extended enterprise and value chain relationships.

The Sterling™ Business Intelligence component is an optional component, providing powerful analytic and performance metrics that interface with the Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation data set.

The goal of the Business Intelligence component is to enhance the value of the Sterling Order Management System Software by providing operational and analytical reporting capabilities to its users, suppliers, and partners.

The Sterling Business Intelligence component integrates with IBM® Cognos® Analytics, the web-enabled client-side reporting tool used for creating and managing ad-hoc and scheduled reports.

Analytics includes:

• IBM Cognos Report Studio - used to create managed reports that are maintained, reused, and require a higher level of complexity than a report produced in Query Studio.
• - enables you to create ad-hoc cross-tab reports based on the multi-dimensional data sources.