Pentaho Reporting Solutions_Sigma Infosolutions
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The document details a project by Sigma Infosolutions to develop comprehensive reporting features for a SaaS-based EDI solution provider in North America, requiring rapid deployment within three weeks. Utilizing the Pentaho BI tool, the team faced challenges coordinating with the client’s core development team but successfully integrated reporting functionalities that support various output formats. The project resulted in a 40% cost savings on development and provided competitive advantages through enhanced business intelligence capabilities.
Pentaho Reporting Solutions_Sigma Infosolutions
- 1. Built the Whole Gamut of Reporting Features for a B2Bi EDI Solution Provider in North America www.sigmainfo.net
- 2. Executive Summary The Client Built on Ruby on Rails, the The client is one of the leading providers of SaaS based EDI solution for client’s EDI solution is a SaaS manufacturers, logistics providers, sourcing companies, expeditors, based offering. The client freight forwarders, and other business partners in the retail supply chain. The client is headquartered in San Francisco, California. was looking to quickly build reporting functionalities into their solution which could support a full range of transactions such as purchase Business Case orders, price updates, and The client’s SaaS based EDI solution was lacking complete reporting invoices. Sigma Infosolutions functionalities. They wanted their various reports like invoices, leveraged its expertise in purchase orders, etc. to support all popular output formats like business intelligence and Adobe PDF, HTML, RTF, and plain text. Therefore, the client wanted reporting to develop the to partner with a team who could help them quickly develop, test, entire set of reports in a short and integrate these reporting features with their core application. span of 3 weeks. Challenges Sigma Infosolutions’ team was only building the reporting capabilities. Therefore, every time the team had to test export functionality with the core system, they liaised with the client’s core development team. This was quite a challenge since the client’s core development team had a hectic schedule and it was difficult to coordinate the timings when the testing could be performed. The client’s team was not quickly responding to queries as well as the details for the next set of reports. This pushed Sigma Infosolutions’ team to be doubly responsive and fast while building core reporting capabilities so as to ensure an on-time and on-budget delivery. sales@sigmainfo.net
- 3. The Solution Technology Sigma Infosolutions proposed to use Pentaho BI tool to build core Sigma Infosolutions used the reporting functionalities. following technology for this project: The client’s application needed to convert a document to a format based on the requirements of the trading partners. Hence, the • Pentaho reporting solution was built to support all popular output options including Adobe PDF, HTML, Rich Text Format, and plain text. Since the solution offers role-based security capabilities, the reports were designed to follow these role-controls to protect security and integrity of information. Sigma Infosolutions took 3 weeks to exhaustively understand the EDI solution, gather requirements, develop, test, and deploy the reporting functionalities on the client’s server. The team also worked along with the client’s development team to integrate the functionalities with the core engine of the solution. Business Benefits Since, Sigma Infosolutions got closely associated with the client’s business vision and had in and out knowledge of the EDI solution; the The reporting functionalities team leveraged its domain understanding to extend various types helped the client to achieve the of functionalities that could enable the client to build a sustainable following business benefits: competitive advantage. Some of these recommended functionalities included advanced dashboards, single sign-on, and building a fantastic • An empowered solution to business intelligence engine to offer it as a separate service for all optimize processes across the customers. the retail supply chain • 40% cost savings on functionality development • A trusted offshore technology partner for any future development needs Invoice reporting www.sigmainfo.net
- 4. “ 40% cost savings on functionality development Invoice worksheet About Sigma Infosolutions • Sigma Group, an Indian conglomerate has more than 4 decades of experience in Mining, Chemicals Manufacturing & Export, Handicrafts Manufacturing & Export, and Software Development • Sigma Infosolutions is a TUV certified ISO 9001:2008 company • Headquartered in US with presence in India • Some of our esteemed customers include Airtel, Zyme Solutions, Yodlee, Celerity Consulting, Resolution Economics, Birla Global Asset Finance, Fosroc Chemicals, Surgery Planet etc. • Sigma Infosolutions’ services comprises of application development, application management, IT consulting, offshore testing, and website and portal development Sigma Infosolutions LLC-USA, California Sigma Infosolutions Ltd.-India,Bangalore 2082 Michelson Dr. Sigma Towers Suite 100 #66/A, 13th Cross Irvine, CA 92612 6th Main, JP Nagar Telephone: (714) 717-1826 3rd Phase, Bangalore- 560078 Fax: (866) 405-6750 Telephone: +91-80-40865100 Toll Free No.: 1-888-861-7360 Fax: +91-80-40865103