Getting Beyond Crystal Reports
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Motionsoft, a leading provider of club management software, was transitioning from a deployed to SaaS model. They needed a new reporting solution that could integrate with their new browser-based application and provide interactive dashboards and reports. After evaluating options like Crystal Reports, Business Objects, and Microsoft Reporting Services, they chose LogiXML due to its ease of integration, speed of development, and ability to provide interactivity for end users. Motionsoft implemented approximately 200 reports and 4 dashboards backed by a data warehouse using LogiXML. This enabled their transition to a SaaS model and added value for customers through ad hoc reporting capabilities.
Getting Beyond Crystal Reports
- 1. Getting Beyond Crystal Reports(featuring Motionsoft)7900 Westpark Drive, Suite T107 McLean, VA 22102 | www.logixml.com
- 2. AgendaIntroduction (David Abramson, Director of Product Management, LogiXML)
- 3. Limitations of Crystal Reports
- 4. Case Study: Motionsoft (Shane Edmonds, CTO, Motionsoft)
- 5. Choosing the Right Vendor
- 6. Wrap Up and Q&A2
- 8. First to market with web-based BI
- 10. Offices in Los Angeles and UK
- 11. High customer ratings in Gartner BI Platforms User Survey
- 12. Software & Support Quality
- 14. Over 500 customers worldwide
- 15. Over 50% are ISVs and SaaS
- 16. 10-year-old dedicated OEM practice3
- 17. Why Embed Dashboards & Reporting? Faster Time to Market
- 19. Win Faster and More Often
- 20. Increase Customer Satisfaction and Retention
- 21. Create New Revenue Streams4
- 23. MotionsoftFounded in 1985 as KI Software (Motionsoft since 2007)
- 24. Leading provider of Club Management software
- 25. 2,000 customers, including gym & health clubs, corporations, universities, hospitals, and hotels & spa
- 26. Products:
- 28. Billing Services
- 29. Online Services & Scheduling
- 31. Data Conversion & Support6
- 32. Club Management SoftwareEasily manage members and staff
- 33. Streamline check-in, facility, and billing operations
- 34. 24/7 virtual access with myClub and online scheduler
- 35. Deployed model with Crystal Reports
- 36. Known for:
- 37. Ease of use
- 38. Fully integrated club management (one stop shop)
- 39. High quality analysis and reporting
- 41. Why New Reporting?Secured $6.5 million in VC funding
- 42. Moving from deployed to SaaS model
- 43. Limitations of Crystal Reports
- 44. Does not integrate with a web-based application
- 45. Can’t expose authoring environment for end user self-service capabilities
- 46. No interactive dashboards and reports to better showcase our value (only static reports)
- 47. No dashboards8
- 51. LogiXML9
- 52. Why LogiXML?Ease of integration with new browser-based application
- 53. Speed of development and time to market
- 54. Smooth/easy proof of concept
- 55. Report interactivity for different user groups
- 56. Flexible cross linking, end user configuration10
- 58. 4 dashboards with individual drill-downs
- 59. Backed by data warehouse
- 60. All new business will be on SaaS product with Logi reports
- 61. 36-month transition of current customers from deployed to SaaS model11
- 62. Demo12
- 63. ResultsEnabled switch from deployed to SaaS model (impossible with Crystal Reports)
- 64. Enabled ad hoc capabilities (impossible to expose the Crystal development environment to end users)
- 65. Planned integration of 3-6 months, completed proof of concept in 30 days
- 66. Added tremendous value: customers love it and demand is very high from prospects
- 67. Easy to view/modify reports directly in the browser
- 68. Flexibility to share reports via link13
- 69. LogiXML vs. CrystalLogiXMLDevelopment processPull in bits of reports to copy/paste very quicklyEnd User ExperienceUse Analysis Grid to change parameters on the flyCrystal ReportsDevelopment processPage-centric central methodologyEnd User ExperienceEnter parametersBuild reportsRepeat entire process to change the data view14
- 70. OEM Software RequirementsIntegration—security and white-labeling
- 72. Ad hoc capabilities/interactivity for end users
- 73. Data source and web browser neutrality15
- 74. Choosing the Right VendorFlexibility and Robustness
- 75. Meet customer requirements today
- 76. Grow into future needs without losing your investment
- 77. Time to Market
- 78. Different vendors have different expected implementation periods
- 79. Need to get things up and running within or a few months or less urgent?
- 81. Factor in the resources required to build and maintain over the long term
- 82. Let the vendor be the BI expert while you focus on your core business16
- 83. Wrap Up, Q&A, and Next Steps17
- 84. Thank YouLogiXMLhttp://www.logixml.comRequest a Demo:Motionsofthttp://www.motionsoft.net18