Dimensional Insight Announces the Diver Solution Version 6.2 for Actionable, Role-Based Business Intelligence

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Dimensional Insight, a leading independent provider of dashboard, reporting and analytics software and services today announced version 6.2 of The Diver Solution, its highly integrated business intelligence (BI) suite. The new version offers significant visual, graphical and design enhancements that streamline the development of role-based performance dashboards, scorecards, key performance indicators (KPIs) and actionable reports within an organization. Dramatic visual-based

analysis improvements make it easier for users to access, understand, share and act on information. Unlike other BI solutions, The Diver Solution 6.2 doesn’t require high demands on IT staff to build, integrate, deploy or maintain. It enables companies to address the entire range of business roles and information needs within their organization and transforms enterprise data into directional and actionable information that readily creates business value.

“With The Diver Solution 6.2, we’ve provided organizations with a flexible approach for adapting BI to the varied needs of their employees, which empowers business users to not only access but also, act on role-based critical data,” said Frederick Powers, President and CEO of Dimensional Insight. “This will make it easier for enterprise organizations to utilize business intelligence and obtain a return on their investment faster than ever before.”

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Many of the key capabilities of 6.2 are focused on enhancing and facilitating the development process of creating role-based dashboards, scorecards and actionable reports for end-users. Administrators can now directly access all dashboard configuration functions from directly within DI’s portal interface in a more intuitive manner. They can apply complementary visual themes that ease the adoption of a consistent “look-and-feel” of reports, graphs and other content across their organization.

“Ease of use and access to a single source of the truth are two factors that we find consistently in our research as critical to the success of BI projects,” said David White, Senior Research Analyst at Aberdeen Group : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. . “By making it easy to access information and adapt performance dashboards to the unique needs and technical abilities of varied sets of business users ranging from individual contributors and line of business managers to CEOs, Dimensional Insight is right on target.”


Diver 6.2 gives administrators more flexibility to design and dynamically layout dashboard pages. Varied options for dashboard design color gradient choices or graph elements enable administrators to make information views more enticing to users. Administrators can display metrics, arrange multiple indicators and “drag-and-drop” graphics to a page. They can also test page-view load time for users and proactively identify potential errors prior to publishing new content to facilitate deployment. Report views, dashboards, and access to detail data can be configured on-the-fly to meet the specific needs of business executives and reduce future demands for ad hoc requests.

“Once our executives saw the new user interface and how easy it was to create reports and delve deeper to investigate any data item from the top down to the detail-level they were not only wowed, but sold,” said Luci Cain, Sales Technology Coordinator at Lipman Brothers, a leading beverage distribution company that uses Diver 6.2 to more effectively manage its sales operation for 2,000 of the most widely recognized brands in the beverage alcohol market.

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The Diver Solution 6.2 takes the user experience to a new level in terms of ease-of-use, responsiveness, intuitive flow of information and graphical display options. Web-based clients take advantage of AJAX technology reducing the total volume of page loads and providing a more seamless end-user experience that is highly responsive to user actions.
Navigation has been simplified and improved with sidebar, breadcrumb and dynamic scrolling features. It also includes new graphics capabilities and indicator types that provide more options for the visual-based analysis of information as well as fine control of graph elements such as gradient color, orientation, or numerical display.

“Being able to show current, actual numbers on the dashboards relative to targets, forecasts, goals – things that we didn’t do very well in the past – is a huge plus for us,” said Bob Petrillo, Corporate Technical Operations Manager at EMC Corporation, which is using Diver 6.2 to monitor and improve the operational performance of its Professional Services group. “Most users would extract the data, put it into other formats, and then manually apply their goals and targets. Version 6.2 allows us to display current data with targets and goals all in one space, which makes DI’s dashboard and scorecard abilities several times more powerful than other methods we’ve tried to use.”

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One of the key features of The Diver Solution version 6.2 is that it enables organizations to utilize DI’s portal interface, DivePort, as an integrated BI scorecard and management decision making tool that mirrors an organization’s corporate structure. This provides information transparency and creates “one version of the truth” a key factor in effective business intelligence solutions. At the same time, it enables organizations to display information in a manner that gives immediate direction and guidance to the employee viewing the information. The details behind the data are automatically available to the end-user without the need for additional report requests, development time and complex scripting skills. Users can click on any dashboard item, KPI or report view and bring the details to the forefront. This instantaneous access empowers employees to act on relevant information and accelerates the decision-making process, allowing users to think and act strategically instead of tactically. Different levels of details can be linked and cascaded together by administrators as needed ensuring each user has access to the appropriate subset of data required to make informed decisions.

“With Diver 6.2, we can provide users with one place to access key information. This will make it easier for users to get what they need themselves to make informed decisions, which will be a huge cost and time savings for us,” said Amato Amarain, Vice President of Decision Support and Financial Planning at Continuum Health Partners, a leading non-profit healthcare provider in New York City using DI’s business intelligence suite to identify the best way to allocate resources cost-effectively across their five hospital system. “Essentially, Diver 6.2 is bringing us to another realm of self-service reporting.”

With Dimensional Insight’s Diver 6.2, enterprise business users can readily access, share and analyze real-time financial data, performance statistics and operational metrics and provide guided insight and directed action bringing more value to their organization and customers, clients, partners or suppliers.


Availability

The Diver Solution 6.2 is readily available. Visit www.dimins.com/62_launch : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. for more details. New customers can sign up for DI’s free Proof-of-Concept program at www.dimins.com/proofofconcept.html : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. .

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Dimensional Insight, www.dimins.com : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww .. , is a leading privately held company specializing in the development of business intelligence solutions. Founded in 1989, Dimensional Insight has more than 2,600 customers and over 50 partners throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Dimensional Insight offers a comprehensive set of BI capabilities ranging from data integration and modeling to sophisticated reporting, analytics, information portals and dashboards. Follow DI on Twitter twitter.com/DI_tweet : cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftwi .. .



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