At Brocade Communication Systems, BI Portals speed up productivity

The Client:

Brocade Communication Systems offers the industry's leading intelligent platform for networking storage. Using their solutions, organizations can simplify the implementation of SANs, reduce the total cost of ownership for data storage environments, and improve network and application efficiency.

The Challenge:

Brocade was looking for a user friendly means of locating and accessing company reports and related documents. They decided on using Business Objects Web Intelligence (WebI) software to build a business intelligence portal. The challenge was to extend WebI functionality and usability to meet its specific requirements including have a consistent look and feel with its intranet.

The Solution:

Saama designed and developed a custom dashboard to meet the primary objective of personalized creation, easy categorization, and secure access of reports and documents. The enhancements that made this possible included:

A hierarchical structure as against the standard single level category schema.

Display aliases to allow categories with the same name.

Category management and hierarchy maintenance.

Search capability to include document descriptions and keywords.

Custom help pages.

In addition, additional security features enabled users to publish documents to anyone as well as a password change feature on the home page. Administrative capabilities to add announcements to the main page were also provided.

The Benefits:

The user friendly design and enhanced features have enabled wider deployment and usage in Product Marketing, Finance, Sales and Engineering enhancing knowledge dissemination.

The revised publishing capabilities allow users in Finance and Corporate Forecasting to target and restrict their documents to the desired audience.

The hierarchical category listing makes navigation easy, irrespective of the number of reports or categories.

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