Business Agility

Business agility relies on timely access to information. The people who make business decisions often feel that the information they require can be found somewhere in the data held by their computer systems, however getting access to that information often proves more difficult than they could have imagined. When trying to obtain answers they often think of new questions as they go along, not knowing what the next question will be until they have seen the answer to the current one. Sometimes, they don’t actually know what they are looking for until they see it, and the questions can be vague.

IT departments struggle to keep up with such informal requests for information because they are incomplete, ambiguous and unplanned. They try to respond with a structured, formal approach which often takes months and is at odds with the timescales of the business and the thought processes involved. If pushed to provide a quick solution the costs can outweigh the business benefits, and the answers can be wrong or not what is required due to the lack of specification detail.

Both parties are frustrated, and ultimately the business loses out.

Empower the business users to get their own answers

X88 Pandora allows interactive ad-hoc consolidation, interrogation, manipulation and transformation of enterprise data with a simple, non-technical interface, regardless of the provenance, quality and volume of the data. This opens up new ways to improve profitability, lower costs and improve your bottom line.

Business users can work in collaboration, sharing knowledge and results within the safety of a secure environment that controls access to sensitive information.

All results in Pandora can be industrialised by the IT department, if required, using automatically generated, complete and implementation-ready specifications of the necessary processing. Results can also used to validate that the IT implementation actually matches the requirement, removing any need to come up with test cases for IT, saving significant cost and effort.