Analyzer has been designed to give end users the shortest distance between the questions they want answered and the data that contains those answers.
It accomplishes this by providing an interface with many pre-built analytics that allows sophisticated analysis without any reliance on IT personnel. Depending on your requirements, the analysis can be done interactively, or set up to run in an automated environment.
Unlike traditional data manipulation tools such as Access or Excel, Analyzer’s user interface is specifically designed to address the realities of directly accessing legacy data. Analyzer utilizes a familiar spreadsheet interface to browse, analyze or report on the data, making it appear as though it were already in a data warehouse.
Key Benefits for Data Access
- Dashboard to access virtually any data within your organization from modern relational databases to old, complex mainframe based legacy data files without ETL, data staging, or extra infrastructure
- Legacy data sources can be easily combined with other databases to create a unified view to the data you need
- DB2, IMS, VSAM, ISAM, sequential (QSAM) Flat files and AS/400 data may all be integrated into Arbutus Analyzer
- Full range of tools that supports the implementation of business rules into data definitions
Key Benefits for Data Analysis
- Windows interface and familiar spreadsheet appearance facilitates straight forward data analysis for even mainframe data
- Unlimited file sizes
- Virtual columns allow any computations or business rules to appear as a column, even when accessing legacy data
- Powerful data analysis and manipulation commands support even the most advanced tasks
- Advanced Data Processing and definition capabilities extend the value that can be realized from the legacy data sources
Key Benefits for IT or Administrator
- Supports the ability to centrally control the set up and administration of data definitions and access for end users
- Your data is secure, as Analyzer provides strictly “read only” access
- No programming required for many types of reporting and analysis
- Data Definition Wizard expert system guides you through metadata creation
- Automated metadata conversion allows rapid data definition in most cases
- Complete semantic layer allows customization of the table and column names
- The optional Arbutus language is specifically designed for analyzing data. This means that sophisticated applications can be developed in a short period of time and minimal lines of code
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