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ANALYZER

Arbutus Analyzer is a powerful data access and analysis solution that auditors, business analysts, and fraud investigators use to access and analyze data quickly and simply. Its robust performance and easy to use features gives you the shortest route to answers in your data.

DESKTOP OR CENTRALIZED ANALYTICS

Analyzer is used as part of a desktop-based analytics approach that gives users of all levels the ability and confidence to perform difference making analysis. When used with Arbutus server technology (Enterprise Edition), Analyzer is also a seamless interface to support and manage centralized analytics.

HOW ANALYZER SETS ITSELF APART

HOW IT WORKS

Analyzer can be deployed on either a physical or virtual desktop environment. It can be used as a stand-alone application for analytics or as part of a comprehensive centralized data access and analysis configuration.

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POWERFUL FEATURES OF ARBUTUS ANALYZER

People use different metaphors to describe Analyzer. Some call it a ‘Swiss Army Knife’ because if can be used for so many things. Some describe it as a ‘toolbox’ full of data analysis tools. What it is designed to be is the right tool for departments where audit, fraud and business analysis needs to occur within a diverse and changing data environment by users with varied, but valuable skills and experiences. We have listed some, but certainly not all, of Analyzer’s well thought out capabilities in meeting the demanding needs of our users.

Data Integrity + Profiling

• Verify – used to identify data validity errors in your data
• Statistics – calculate profile statistics such as highest, lowest and range on numeric or date fields
• Stratify – count the number of records falling into specified intervals (strata) of numeric or elapsed time field
• Classify/Summarize – generate summary data use one or multiple key fields
• Read only – unlike spreadsheets, your raw data sources cannot be changed when using Analyzer, ensuring the integrity of your analysis

Data Analysis

• Age – perform an aging analysis on any appropriate date field
• Crosstab – used in the same way as a pivot table in Excel, Crosstab creates hyperlinked summary results for easy drive down capabilities
• Gaps – identify any gaps in a sequence of numbers
• Duplicates – test for a wide range of duplicates from exact to fuzzy

Usability

• Sharing – from a desktop-only environment, create shared folders that all members of your team can use to shared data sources, scripts and results
• Interface – Analyzer is designed to give you the best interface between your data and the analysis you want to perform.

Audit-Specific

• Benford’s – easily apply a Benford’s Law analysis to your data file
• Sampling – generate monetary unit and record samples. Analyzer can also be used to calculate your statistically valid sample size
• Self-Documenting Log – all analysis and results generated by Analyzer are recorded in a read only log file

Multiple data sources

• Join – An intuitive interface, including a Venn diagram, for bringing together different data sources using a wide range of joins.
• Relations – easily create logical relationships between multiple data sources or recreate the relationships from among different database tables
• Compare – commonly used to compare files from two different periods of time to identify what fields have changes and/or what records have been added or deleted
• SQL – execute the advanced join capabilities of SQL from within Analyzer
• Merge/Append – used to combine or append data sources of the same structure

Advanced

• SQL – easily Combine the strengths of Analyzer with the unique, powerful capabilities of SQL
• Scripting/Procedures – create customized, repeatable analytics, both simple and complex using the purpose built analysis language of Arbutus
• Functions – over 100 functions to support data analysis from categories such as Fuzzy matching, Conversion, Date/time, String, Bit/Char, Financial, Logical and Math

Data Access

• Multiple Data Sources – define and access a wide range of data sources including most databases, Excel, PDF’s and XML
• Direct Access – have live, direct access to databases

ANALYZER: WHAT’S NEW

Arbutus continues to release one or two new versions each year. Version 6.0 contains a number of new capabilities, many of them are only available in Arbutus:

1. Full Unicode Support
2. Redesigned Button Bar
3. Project Overview can include visibility and access to other file types like Excel
4. View – remembers the last 20 named or ad-hoc filters
5. Improved Commands
6. Consolidated and Expanded Global Font Settings
7. Relations Dialog for Multiple Selection of Child Tables
8. Command Support for Presorting when Reading Live Data
9. Main Menu
10. New ASCII Code Page Selector in Data Definition Wizard
11. Servers – Enterprise Edition

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