Why Futrix?

Futrix software is designed to provide business users with the freedom to navigate and explore information, enabling them to get answers quickly and become more self-reliant.

Users can interact with information in a similar way to slicing and dicing OLAP cubes or Microsoft Excel pivot tables. However, with Futrix there are no requirements for specialist skills to design, build and maintain cubes when users want to analyze their data in new ways. Additionally, Futrix can be configured with many different data sources seamlessly.

Futrix can dynamically summarize detail level data, overcoming limitations of OLAP cubes. Futrix intelligently builds its own summary tables based on actual and anticipated usage, delivering faster performance and increased user productivity.

Organizations that traditionally rely on having a large number of OLAP structures can save enormous amounts of time and money by implementing Futrix software. Users spend more time gaining insight from their information and less time requesting support.

The following table explains some of the key features of Futrix and the associated business benefits:

Feature

Why this is important

The business benefits

Drill
Anywhere

With OLAP cubes, navigation is limited to the predefined structure designed into the cube. Usage is constrained by that structure.

With Futrix there is no predefined cube structure. Users have the flexibility to look at information any way they need without changes to data structures.

Self
Optimizing

Futrix performs the necessary summarization to optimize performance based on actual and anticipated usage patterns.

Very fast access to large amounts of summarized data without the time and cost of specialist technical expertize.

Self
Tracking

Understand exactly who is using what information, and when. Identify areas of high activity for improvement and low activity for replacement.

Know exactly who and what you will impact before making changes. Enables better capacity planning that will avoid big surprises.

Web
Based

No software to install on user's workstations. One place to install, upgrade and maintain the software.

Anyone can access Futrix with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Significantly less cost to maintain than desktop-based software.

Unlimited
Users

Don't need to work out how many licenses you are likely to need, or have to juggle them around the people that need them.

Anyone anywhere can access Futrix. No need to purchase more user licenses if your requirements suddenly expand.

Advanced
Analytics

Many vendors suggest that analytics is simply being able to drill into an OLAP cube. We have to disagree with them, analytics is far more powerful.

Move past what happened, to why did it happen, what is likely to happen, and what factors can I influence to optimize what will happen.

Last updated October 2009