Focus on the Process – Not the Data

Traditional business intelligence is data-centric – you move the data to a single place to be used for analysis. With arcplan, it's different! arcplan Enterprise quickly and directly accesses all of your data with arcplan Communication Interfaces (see table below), regardless of how and where data is stored. More importantly, your questions don't need to be limited to which system the data are stored in, and your reports aren't limited to one data source; arcplan lets you focus on the performance of the organization, not the data.

With an arcplan-based, multi-data source approach to enterprise performance management, you achieve:

  • Support of full processes – Without analytical 'blind spots.' Drill into any system to get answers without manual intervention.
  • Real-time access and understanding – Access strategic, tactical and operational layers of your business to understand how your processes are performing and their strategic impact.
  • Speed of delivery and adaptability to change – Avoid unnecessary data movement to deliver business intelligence in record time, and respond to new IT systems, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganization without downtime.

Supported Communication Interfaces

arcplan clients access more data sources in projects than any other BI tool, according to the independent BI Survey 10 (2011). arcplan Enterprise enables your BI solutions to do more than access different data sources - you interact with them, querying and analyzing across different data sources and performing write-back when permitted by the source system. Have a look at our supported data sources:

VendorSupported Data Source
IBM/ApplixIBM DB2 & Cubing Services
IBM Cognos TM1
InforPM OLAP Server (former MIS Alea)
MicrosoftMicrosoft SQL Server -
Analysis Services (2000 to 2008)
MIKMIK OLAP
Oracle/HyperionOracle Native
Oracle Essbase
Oracle OLAP Server
Oracle Enterprise
Oracle Financial Management
Paris TechnologiesPowerOLAP
SAPSAP R/3
SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)
SAP BW BAPI
SAP BW-IP
SAP Query (Data Extractor)
Simba TechnologiesMDX Provider for Oracle OLAP
Software AGAdabas
TeradataTeradata OLAP Connector
Generic arcplan InterfacesXML Online
XML for Analysis
ODBC/OLE DB for RDBMS
LDAP

Above list shows an aggregated list of supported Communication Interfaces for arcplan Enterprise version 7.1 or higher.

If you haven't found an interface to support your business intelligence or analysis project, contact us. Please detail your system and data connectivity requirements.