Insight Analytics

Accelerate and improve the quality of business-critical decisions across the enterprise

Insight Analytics, the analytics application for Planview Enterprise, extends the rich portfolio management data in Planview Enterprise throughout your organization, delivering vital business information to every desktop.

Tightly integrated with Microsoft Office, and built on the Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services framework and SQL Server Analysis Services, Insight Analytics speeds adoption by making it easy to distribute information across and beyond the enterprise.

The intuitive user interface of this powerful, OLAP-based analytics platform enables you to:

Figure 1. One-click access
to the data you need, from
dashboards to granular details

• Drive informed action using interactive analytics to quickly visualize key business information
• Disseminate information to every desktop through tight integration with Microsoft Office and SharePoint
• Realize fast ROI with an intuitive platform that minimizes learning curves
• Generate immediate value with pre-built analytics and dashboards
• Be ready for future needs with a flexible, extensible, OLAP-based design

Interactive Decision-Making Platform

Quickly get to the information you need. Perform analysis of complex data sets through interactive drilling, what-if and trend analysis. With drag-and-drop and pivot table-like capabilities, you can drill down, slice and dice the data, and change views, all with a click of the mouse. Get fast answers to questions like:

• How much do I spend on innovation versus sustaining work?
• What is the cost of delivery of a service or application, and who is footing the bill?
• Over time, are my costs increasing or decreasing?
• Do I have the right balance of onshore to offshore resources?
• With which vendors are we working, and what is the cost of each?

Easy Sharing Across the Enterprise

Figure 2. View analytics
in Office applications and
SharePoint portals

Speed adoption with Insight Analytics' integration with Microsoft Office. This enables information dissemination to the desktop of every stakeholder, within or beyond the enterprise. Leverage Insight Analytics views in SharePoint sites, PowerPoint presentations, Excel spreadsheets, Outlook emails, and PDF documents.

Powerful Out-of-the-Box Analytics

Get started quickly with prebuilt OLAP cubes. Insight Analytics ships with guided analytics and interactive dashboards for:

• Total Cost of Ownership — offers cost transparency into IT, so you can analyze all costs, and validate cost allocation to the business
• Work Management — enables analysis of priorities, statuses forecasts, baselines, financials, and risk for projects and activities
• Resources — provides a view into your organization's resources and contractors, ensuring they are executing on the right work, strategies, and applications, based on hours worked, planned, forecasted, and availability
• Strategies — analyzes top-down strategic plans against bottom-up execution by mapping organizational strategies to resource capacity and investment costs
• Vendors — relates costs to vendors for applications, services, and work to ensure you are spending appropriately
• Services — spells out the total cost of delivering IT services by enabling you to analyze services, assets, applications, and service level agreements

Flexible Extensibility

Extend the OLAP technology to adapt to your specific processes and controls. If you need to extend your analysis to include new lines of business, product lines, and the like, you can build new OLAP cubes to address them in the comprehensive analytic tool center.

Granular Security

Ease complexity in securing business information. Role-based security integration with Planview Enterprise ensures the right people have the right level of access.

The Power of Insight

Easy to use yet robust, Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics delivers a powerful new experience for stakeholders across the enterprise to view and interact with the deep data store supporting your Planview Enterprise applications. From click-by-click access to critical information, to user-friendly chart views, to easy sharing via Office applications already in use, this dynamic platform delivers the power of insight, enabling you to take informed action and generate positive impact for the entire organization.