Version 8.2 Extends BI to More Users with Enterprise Search Capabilities via the New Logi Intelligence Server and Delivers Unique, Web 2.0-style BI Features like Text Clouds and Tabbed Reports

Logi 8 delivers a complete, integrated and interactive Web-based business intelligence (BI) platform that is easy to implement, easy to license, easy to learn and easy to upgrade. Logi 8 offers a compelling value proposition: it combines the depth and breadth of Web-based reporting, analysis and data services capabilities with innovative pricing and licensing to scale up and serve all the varied users across an organization. Companies license Logi 8 on a per server basis, instead of per seat, at an affordable price point. Both subscription-based and perpetual licensing options are available.

With a standards-based and Web-based design, interactive reporting applications delivered by Logi 8 are OS, browser, and database neutral to support virtually any platform, data source, browser or device.





In Version 8.2, look for the following exciting enhancements in the Logi 8 product lines.

Logi Ad Hoc Reporting – Using Logi 8 Ad Hoc Reporting, business users are fully empowered to create dynamic Web-based reports in minutes to get the information they want without waiting for IT staff to build reports for them. Some of the many version 8.2 enhancements include:

• Internationalization – Most useful to our global customers and partners, Logi Ad Hoc can now be offered in other languages. The Logi Ad Hoc user interface (UI) has been fully internationalized to make it easy to translate all the UI text, buttons, and so on.
  
  
  

  Logi Ad Hoc in Italian

• Report Builder Usability Improvements - Menus have been expanded to provide one-click access to functionality. More embedded help is also available to guide users through the process of creating reports.
• Enhancements to Scheduling Outputs – Users can now specify output formats of Excel, Word and CSV in addition to the already offered HTML and PDF formats.
• Enhanced Column Configuration – The Logi Ad Hoc Report Builder now allows users to specify a column's display order before committing the added column(s) to the 'Column Configuration' panel. If more columns are added later, existing and new columns can be re-arranged again from the 'Add a Column' panel. Additionally, the 'Table > Column Configuration' panel has been enhanced to allow one or multiple columns to be moved up or down or deleted all at once.
• Improvements to Charts – This version of Logi Ad Hoc includes a helpful enhancement to charts, which gives you more control over colors as well as the ability to include legends.
• Access to Web Version of Logi Studio – If you import reports you create with Logi Info into Logi Ad Hoc, you now have access to the new, convenient Web-based report definition editor, Logi Web Studio.
• Administration Improvements – Logi Ad Hoc now provides administrators the convenience of configuring application administration settings.
• Custom Report Stylesheet Enhancements – Logi Ad Hoc now makes using custom report stylesheets as easy as a file copy. Simply put your own report stylesheet in the same directory as the default stylesheets and it will be picked up and made available to the report builder automatically.
• Various Parameter Enhancements – Style enhancements for displaying parameters on a report.
  
  

Logi Info – Using Logi Info, your IT staff have all the tools they need to quickly create and deploy comprehensive reports corporate-wide. Logi Info updates for Version 8.2 include:

• Increased Report Developer Productivity with the New Logi Web Studio – Logi Info now offers a convenient Web-based report definition editor accessible in any standard Web browser for developers to make changes to reports when they’re on the go. This tool is zero-footprint and offers greater flexibility in maintaining reports, opening the door for using non-Windows platforms like Linux/UNIX and Apple Macintosh.
  
  
  
  
• New Text Cloud Element for Web 2.0-Style Visualization of Data - A Text Cloud is a visual depiction of the weighting of words, links, and phrases. The relative font sizes and colors of words or phrases within the text cloud is an indication of their weighting, frequency or other numeric value. The words or phrases also may be links, allowing further drill down into detail data.
  
  
  

  Enable drill down into detailed data from weighted words in new Web 2.0-style Text Clouds

  
  
  
• New Tabs Element to Show Multiple Reports on a Single Web Page – You can now add tabs to reports you deliver to users’ Web browsers to include tables and charts all in the same page. Users can easily ‘tab’ through each report without having to scroll or navigate through various menus. Easily tab through multiple reports with the new Tabs element
  
  
     Easily tab through multiple reports with the new Tabs element
  
  
  
• Additional Data Type Support for the Analysis Grid – This release of Logi Info offers full date and time support for calculations in the Analysis Grid.
   
• Improvements to the Popup Menu Element – You now have more flexibility and control over the behavior and appearance (using stylesheets) of popups.
  
  

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Logi OLAP Reporting – Easily bringing the power of OLAP analysis to all users across your organization, Logi OLAP Reporting provides a convenient, interactive cube viewer for users to view and analyze OLAP data in any Web browser. Version 8.2 enhancements to Logi OLAP include:

• Displaying Member Properties – For easily viewing and identifying the details/properties about individual members in your OLAP cubes. A member is an item in a hierarchy that represents one or more records in the underlying database. A member is the lowest level of reference used when accessing cell data in a cube.
  
  

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Logi Mart – A highly flexible data store that is low-cost and easy to setup and maintain, Logi Mart delivers your data efficiently and effectively for reporting and analysis. Using a powerful embedded database, Logi Mart adds a secure data layer between your operational databases and your reporting server to isolate data for reporting and take the load away from your data servers. It also pre-calculates and caches data for faster report results.

Enhancements to Logi Mart include:

• New and Improved Action Logs
• More Refined Data Mart Table Definition Structure - Instead of a single, lengthy data mart definition that defines your data mart tables, Logi Mart now offers a global Settings definition with multiple associated Table definitions.

Logi Intelligence Server - LogiXML continues to innovate the way you do BI by making advanced reporting and analysis capabilities easy. This release of Logi Mart includes the new Logi Intelligence Server, which offers valuable enterprise search and historical analysis capabilities.

In the Logi 8 platform, Logi Intelligence Server seamlessly integrates with Logi Info for you to build reports that fully take advantage of historical data capture and analysis and Web-based enterprise search.

• New ‘Time Machine’ Element for Reporting - Logi Intelligence Server offers a unique ‘time machine’ element that lets you easily capture a snapshot of data on a scheduled basis and then archive and compare that data over time. You can easily create trend reports to analyze that data and be notified of any exceptions. Logi Intelligence Server will allow you to archive critical data over a period of time, compare historical data and calculations, enable automated alerts or processes for exceptions in historical data, and create important trend reports, for example, to explore whether product sales are trending up or down in the last week or month by geographical region.
  
  
  
  
  
• Google-Style Search Boxes for Your Reports - Logi Intelligence Server makes stored data searchable and gives you the tools to easily add free-text search capabilities to your organization’s reports. Search capabilities in BI solutions help to extend easy information access to a broader user base across the organization. Search makes it easy for end users to find information most relevant to their needs in a dynamic, free-style, and casual way, just like they have come to expect in their browsers.
  
  
  • Server administrators maintain control over data connections and security, easily defining the data tables that are searchable for users. They can define how to display the results and further limit which data columns are searched and which get shown to the user.
    
    
  • The search input can come from any user input type element, e.g., can be hard-coded (i.e., users select search terms from a drop down menu) or can allow free text input. The search input can also come from another report or Web application.
    

Easily search your report data with free-text searches

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