Argyll and Bute Council Selects Noetix to Advance Financial Reporting Capabilities; British Rural Authority Uses Real-Time Reporting Solution to Increase Visibility into Revenue and Capital Budgets.REDMOND, Wash. -- Noetix(R) Corp., a software provider that automatically generates business intelligence (BI) content from enterprise applications, today announced that the Argyll and Bute
Argyll and Bute (Earra-Ghaidheal agus Bòd Council, one of 32 unitary unitary pertaining to a single object or individual. local authorities in Scotland, has selected Noetix to provide trusted and consistent real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. reporting capabilities from its Oracle Applications. The Argyll and Bute Council needed a fast, easy-to-use BI reporting solution that would assist it in providing a certain level of public accountability: monitoring of performance indicators, internal auditing, and tracking of revenue and capital budgets. Prior to Noetix, the Argyll and Bute Council relied on two people using Oracle Discoverer to manually join data source tables for operational report development. This manual process often required instruction from a technical reference manual, leading them to look for a complementary tool that was not as cumbersome cum·ber·some adj. 1. Difficult to handle because of weight or bulk. See Synonyms at heavy. 2. Troublesome or onerous. cum and time-consuming. After careful consideration, Argyll and Bute Council chose Noetix. "With Oracle Discoverer alone, we were unable to meet the need for customized queries," said Bruce West Bruce West was a federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1904. This riding was created in 1882 from parts of Bruce North and Bruce South ridings. , Head of Strategic Finance, Argyll and Bute Council. "Noetix has extended Discoverer's capabilities and enabled us to extract the information we need quickly, into the format we want and the product we prefer. In addition, we can get this information without having to remap To map something for a second or subsequent time. Quite often, the words "remap" and "map" are used synonymously, even though they refer to an operation that is taking place for the first time. See map. to the data. Noetix does that for us automatically." With Noetix, the Argyll and Bute Council has been able to conduct monthly reports on year-to-date budgets (actuals vs. planned) as well as calculate the lifecycle of an invoice An itemized statement or written account of goods sent to a purchaser or consignee by a vendor that indicates the quantity and price of each piece of merchandise shipped. A consular invoice is one used in foreign trade. (i.e., track from the time it's submitted to a vendor until the time it gets paid). More importantly, council business users manage the Noetix solution directly from their desktop to respond immediately and accurately to requests from management. "We are deeply rooted in the Oracle community and have built a well-respected solution that understands the complexities of how data is stored within Oracle Applications," said Morris Beton, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Noetix. "We are pleased to be able to provide the Argyll and Bute Council the framework required to access information at a faster rate and serve their communities more effectively." Noetix has developed proprietary software that automatically "crawls" the customer's configuration of Oracle Applications and Siebel Business Applications, generating a unique set of views based on their unique configuration. The result is a simple, easy-to-understand representation of complex tables and relationships so end users can actually turn data into business intelligence. About Argyll and Bute Council Argyll and Bute Council is one of 32 unitary local authorities in Scotland. It is responsible for a wide range of services, including education, waste management, maintenance of public roads, planning and building control, social work, housing, environmental health and emergency planning. Argyll and Bute Council covers the second largest geographical area of any Scottish local authority with six towns, 26 inhabited in·hab·it·ed adj. Having inhabitants; lived in: a sparsely inhabited plain. Adj. 1. inhabited - having inhabitants; lived in; "the inhabited regions of the earth" islands and over 3,000 miles of coastline. Thirty-six councilors serve a local population of 90,000. About Noetix More than 1,200 customers worldwide use Noetix to quickly and cost-effectively access the enterprise application data they need to make important business decisions every day. Noetix provides software that automatically generates metadata (1) (meta-data) Data that describes other data. The term may refer to detailed compilations such as data dictionaries and repositories that provide a substantial amount of information about each data element. from enterprise applications, enabling immediate access to data. Unlike most business intelligence tools that require weeks of extensive manual mapping to be set up and maintained, Noetix uses patented technology to automatically discover and produce metadata based on customers' specific implementations of Oracle Applications or Siebel Business Applications. Noetix provides this BI content with easy search and navigation capability, empowering users to quickly generate the ad hoc For this purpose. Meaning "to this" in Latin, it refers to dealing with special situations as they occur rather than functions that are repeated on a regular basis. See ad hoc query and ad hoc mode. , operational reports needed to make critical and timely business decisions. Noetix's proven technology is being used by industry-leading customers worldwide, including: CompUSA, Motorola, Starbucks, Toshiba, Visa and Xerox International Partners. The company is headquartered in Redmond, Wash., with international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. based in London. Noetix is a registered trademark of Noetix Corp. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners |
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