Eastern Software System (ESS) has launched a new reporting-cum-business intelligence (BI) tool for users of ebizframe, its flagship ERP product. The tool called XLenz uses "MS-Excel" as the front end, giving the users the flexibility to derive useful analytics based on their own information needs, their own formats and their own standards. It needs just about 10 minutes of training for an average MS Excel user to be able to start creating his/her own analytics.
To make it even easier for users, ESS has already built in a repository of data and graph based analytics in XLenz. With suitable adaptations, XLenz can also derive data from multiple sources of information besides the ERP and can help users get useful information emanating from multiple applications / processes within the organization.
ESS, owing to its incessant R&D initiatives, keeps launching add-ons for specific functions or modules of its ebizframe ERP product. This is primarily to help customers keep up with all the new developments arising out of changes in technology, functional upgradation or changes in laws (e.g. introduction of VAT in taxation structure or the upcoming IFRS accounting structure). Add-ons are also borne out of learnings at multiple implementations.
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