The document provides an overview of ProGen Business Solutions and their BI platform called "pi". Key points include: - ProGen is an IT company specializing in business intelligence and analytics with over 20 years of experience. - Their platform "pi" is an advanced and lightweight BI tool that helps users convert data into meaningful reports, dashboards, and insights. - Pi offers lower costs, quicker deployment times, minimal training needs, and higher user adoption compared to other BI tools. - The document then discusses pi's features, benefits, key differentiators compared to other tools, and how it could help businesses.

1. FAB (Features &
Benefits) Analysis
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2. Company Overview: ProGen Business Solutions
IT Products company operating in the Business Intelligence & Analytics space
Co-founded by Professionals from Oracle Corporation having 20 plus years of expertise in
Business Intelligence & Analytics domain
„pi‟: BI Platform from ProGen is one of the most Advanced & Light Weight BI Tools
available in the Market that helps business users convert data into meaningful &
actionable information in form of Dashboards, Scorecards, Portals & Analytical Reports
Lower Cost of Ownership, Quicker Deployment, Minimal User Training, & Higher User
Adoption are some of the features that differentiate „pi‟ from other BI Tools
Awards & Recognitions:

3. pi: Quick Facts
 Business Intelligence & Analytics Platform
 Useful for Designing Multidimensional Analytical Reports & Dashboards
 Self Service User Interfaces
 Quick Deployment- 4-6 weeks
 Technology overview: J2EE, Ajax, SQL, JFree, JavaFX
 Indicative Hardware Requirements for 10-15 users
 Intel Quad Core Xeon Processor or above (Single CPU)
 8 to 12 GB RAM
 Hard Disk Space – Depending on Data warehouse size

4. “pi” : Key Features & Differentiators
Query
Studio
Adhoc Designer Ease of Cost of
Analysis Studio Use Ownership
“pi” High User Quick
Viewer Adoption Deployment
Widgets &
Analyzer
Portals “pi” - Key Differentiators
“pi” – Key Features
“pi” Also Available on I-pad
and other Tablet Devices

5. How would “pi” help my business
 Eliminate Manual reporting & data collection related non value added activities
 Anytime, Anywhere Information availability over the web
 Data consolidation & reporting in form of Interactive Reports & Dashboards
 Transform complex transactional data into meaningful business metrics
 Helps users gain insight into their business performance & profitability
 Monitor business trends, identify profit-loss making segments, send Alerts &
Notifications, and collaborate real time with other users
 Single solution addressing the diverse reporting & analysis needs of users
 Data Analysis support in form of drill downs and Interactive Visuals

6. Top 5 Reasons to Choose “pi” over other BI Tools
1. Quickly Demonstrable Business Value
2. Ease-of-Use leading to Higher User Adoption
3. Leverage on Existing IT Investments (Hardware & Database)
4. Rapid Deployment
5. DIY (Do it Yourself) Approach for Lower System Maintenance Efforts

7. Customer Pain Areas & “pi” Value Proposition
New BI Customers Un-Satisfied Customers Of Existing BI Tools
Organizational Perspective End – User Perspective IT Perspective
High Upfront Investments Low Flexibility of tool – Tougher slicing & 20-22% effective users of Current BI Tool
dicing of data
Complexity of BI Tools Technical expertise required for Adhoc Lower ROI – Users still more comfortable
Analysis with Excel
Longer Implementation Periods Heavy Dependence on IT for creating new High Running & Maintenance cost
reports
High Maintenance & Running Turn-around time for report creation is Large BI Support Staff
cost too high
Limited options for SaaS based Lack of Real Time Collaboration Few options in the Market for switching
offerings to other BI Tools
“pi” Value Proposition
 Product License 40-60%
 Implementation Efforts 40-50%
 Training 60-70%
 End User Adoption 60-70%
 IT efforts (Maintenance) ~ 50%

8. Key Benefits & Advantage “pi”
Key Benefits Advantage “pi”
• Web based Interactive & Intuitive User Interfaces
• Guided Analysis in form of customizable drill downs and drill across options
• Business users are empowered with simplified User Interfaces for customizing/designing of
new reports and real time sharing of them with other users
• Advanced Analysis features such as Adhoc Analysis, Conditional Filters, Logical Formatting
Simplicity & Ease of etc can be easily achieved by end users without any expert training needs
Information • All Comparisons/Prior Measures and Time based Measures are seeded in the Platform and
Accessibility need not be configured separately unlike most other BI Tools
• Support for multiple report layouts and data representation using visual indicators for
enhanced decision making
• Minimal Training requirements for Business as well as IT Users
• End users need not depend on IT/MIS Teams for day-to-day reporting & analysis needs
Higher User Adoption • Pervasive BI for enterprise-wide adoption of high quality decision making tools & techniques
(Leads to Better ROI) • Self Service Approach & Easy Navigation enhances the User Likeness Index
• Many useful Widgets that are required by users for their day-to-day analysis jobs like Sticky
Notes, E-Mail/SMS Integration, Snapshot Storing, Favorite Reports etc are part of the system
• Rapid Deployment – Leads to Lower Implementation Time & Cost (2-4 Weeks)
• Leverage on existing IT Infrastructure Investment– Lower Hardware & Software Cost
Lower Cost of • No Need to purchase any 3rd party licenses – No specific Database or Server Licenses
Ownership required
• Lower Running Costs: No need to maintain any in-house highly skilled BI resource(s)
• Lower Training Costs: Training requirements are minimal for business as well as IT users
• Licensing Cost: Licensing costs of “pi” are around 40-60% lower than traditional BI Tools

9. Key Differentiators: “pi” Vs Other Leading BI Tools
Feature Other BI Tools pi – Advantage
Target Audience Most of the existing BI Tools were developed in the late “pi” has been developed considering the
90’s with most of the Target Audience in form of requirements of day-to-day BI Users as well as of
Analysts & Power Users (particularly in Planning & the Power Users. Day-to-Day business users find
Finance) and thereby needed specific skill-sets and “pi” as simple as surfing any website and can use
exhaustive training for using the BI Application. With it with minimal training requirements. Power
the changing landscape and evolved decision-making Users on the other hand can perform lot of adhoc
practices, BI in current time plays a significant role in analysis and “On the Fly” calculations without
Day-to-Day as well as Tactical Decision Making (In undergoing exhaustive trainings or depending on
addition to Strategic Decision Making) and thereby the technical resources.
target audience has got Junior and Middle Management
as key user of BI Tools, in addition to the Power Users.
More IT In most of the leading BI Tools, it requires far more IT With “pi”, there is a single metadata that spans
Personnel personnel for a given amount of BI users because either across business areas and business users need
Delivering to the report designer is too technical or the metadata not rely on IT Teams for creating their reports
Fewer Users cannot be re-used across reports and therefore creating and for performing Adhoc Analysis
multiple one-off reports & objects.
Limited Dynamic Most of the BI Tools do not provide on-the-fly Business users can slice & dice along any
Report hierarchical, object or column prompts such as dimension “On the Fly” and can also change the
Personalization selection of attributes, metrics, and filters. This causes underlying report measures for performing run-
& Interactivity an unnecessary number of reports to be created and time analysis without any support from IT or
maintained for end users. technical teams

10. Key Differentiators: “pi” Vs Other Leading BI Tools
Feature Other BI Tools pi – Advantage
Complex Report Business users in most of the existing BI Tools find it Advanced Analytical capabilities of “pi”
designer difficult to create or edit analytical reports. This delivered in form of Interactive & Intuitive
Interfaces with requires more IT effort and time, increasing costs and Dashboards & Reports with a WYWSWIG approach
limited WYSWIG forcing business users to depend on IT to fulfill requests. removes all the guessing work during designing
options Moreover in tools with easy to use designers, WYSWIG is phase itself and makes it a clear differentiator &
missing most of the times leaving the users guessing winner when compared with the complex GUIs of
how the final output would be looking till the time other BI Tools
reports are published and then the fire-fighting starts
Analysis OR Most of the BI Tools, differentiate between Reporting & Single window for reporting as well as performing
Reporting but Analysis which used to be the business case until few basic & adhoc analysis. Users need not opt for
not both years back. But the information maturity & demands of separate GUIs for reporting and analysis
the current business users has seen both these areas
overlapping as the business users today do not only
want to view static reports but also want to perform
Run time Analysis

11. Competitive Analysis: “pi” Vs Other BI Tools
Product Features
High
High
Low High
Ease of Tool
Information Complexity
Accessibility
Cost of Ownership
High (TCO)
pi
Traditional BI Tools
Open Source BI Tools

12. ProGen Business Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Level 7, Maximus Towers
Building 2A, Mindspace Complex
Hi-Tech City Layout, Hyderabad – 500081
Tel: +91-40-42215023 (O)
+91-98663 97166 (M)
+91-98187 10727 (M)
Website: www.progenbusiness.com
E-Mail: info@progenbusiness.com