1.
Richard Rabin
Senior Sales Engineer
Altosoft™, a Kofax Company
Email: Richard.Rabin@Kofax.com
Kofax Altosoft Insight™ Deep Dive

2.
Agenda
 Business intelligence tasks
 A better approach –Kofax Altosoft Insight™
 Kofax Altosoft Insight architecture
 Key concepts
 Insight differentiators
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Business Intelligence Tasks
Every business intelligence implementation must address:
 Data collection
 Data parsing
 Data cleansing and transformation
 Data aggregation and calculation
 Delivery via multiple channels
 End user empowerment

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A Better Approach – Kofax Altosoft Insight
Kofax Altosoft Insight delivers all the functional elements
required for enterprise BI solutions
 One unified toolset: no third-party products required
 A single, end-to-end metadata set
 Unified deployment, change and upgrade management
 Common role-based authorization that can be integrated
with enterprise resources
 Adds process intelligence
 Absolutely no coding or scripting

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Kofax Altosoft Insight Architecture
Copyright
© 2007
Altosoft
Corporatio

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The Altosoft Approach
Copyright
© 2007
Altosoft
Corporatio
Insight
Dashboard
& Reports
•100% Browser-based
•AJAX / Flash drag &
drop design interface
•Can operate
independent of
MetricsMart
MetricsMart Insight BI
DataSources
Managed
Database
“Smart Mart”
•Databases
•Packaged Apps
•Web Services
•Flat Files
•Event Driven Systems
•Metrics stored in any
database for easy
access by any tool
•Capable of storing
calculated Metrics
only or source
records/events
•Optimized for time-
dimensioned data
•No coding of any
kind
•Centralized
management of
metrics metadata
•Centralized
administration of
data mart definition
ProcessMart
MetricsMart
Analytics
Server

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Main Insight Concepts
Copyright © 2007 Altosoft Corporation. All rights
reserved.
Records Metrics
 Order
 Process Step
 Deposit
 Resident
 Order count, average order size, revenue
 Step count, average step duration, process savings
 Total deposit, number of deposits
 Current resident count, new resident count, avg stay
Dimensions
 Record: Order has fields city, country, employee
 Metric: Revenue can have dimensions city, country, employee
MetricsMart
 Stores metrics (usually), records (sometimes)
 Drives the dashboard (usually)
 Incremental data loads where possible

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Kofax Altosoft Insight
 Single platform for all elements of business intelligence
 Streamlined implementation cycle
 No coding of any kind
 MetricsMart: No need to pre-aggregate data, build data cubes
 Enterprise class
 Not just departmental or for special projects
 Innovative process intelligence tools
 Understand your data in the context of your
business processes
 Automatically monitor process execution
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For further information, please contact:
 Richard Rabin
 Senior Sales Engineer, Altosoft™, a Kofax Company
 Email: Richard.Rabin@Kofax.com