10th October 2011, Vancouver, Canada
Antivia, which is trusted by SAP customers worldwide to help them drive more value from their business intelligence (BI) investments, today announced FlexWIS, a new product which connects Adobe Flash Builder and the Flex SDK with SAP BusinessObjects to allow the rapid development of custom, interactive BI applications. Using FlexWIS, organizations can build high-performance BI applications in less time for iOS, Android and the desktop.
Interactive BI Applications are a natural extension of dashboards but often require a more bulletproof, development oriented approach with richer, more robust tools and the capacity for more flexibility in interface design. FlexWIS brings exactly these capabilities to SAP customers by deeply embedding Antivia's existing XWIS capability for SAP BusinessObjects data connectivity and manipulation into the Flash Builder / Flex environment.
FlexWIS allows organizations to squeeze more value out of their business intelligence investment either by building custom BI applications that users can just pick-up and use or by embedding the "single version of the truth" from their business intelligence system into their business processes or Line of Business applications to ensure consistent, joined-up decision making.
Mark Hudson, CEO at Antivia commented "FlexWIS is a step change for both Adobe and SAP BusinessObjects customers. Until now dealing with BI data in Flex has been a time consuming task, but FlexWIS makes it simple by making connectivity, aggregation and data navigation capabilities directly available to Flex developers in a natural and easy to use SDK."
Hudson continued "Initial discussions with customers suggest that FlexWIS will be used hand-in-hand with Dashboard Designer and Xcelsius. Dashboards and Interactive BI Applications are really two sides of the same coin and along with our existing XWIS product, FlexWIS allows SAP BusinessObjects customers to move between the two paradigms with a minimum of re-work because everything is based on a single back-end data platform".
Donald MacCormick, Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Antivia explained: "Too often application developers are left without supporting tools to access their organization's BI content and need to build their own. Not only is this a time consuming task (particularly when considering the hierarchical nature of BI data) but often leads to the by-passing of the organization's standard BI platform. This is why we developed FlexWIS - to bridge the gap between SAP BusinessObjects content and Flash Builder and Flex. With FlexWIS, application developers can quickly and easily create polished custom, interactive BI applications which give users exactly what they need to get their job done with the minimum of fuss."
FlexWIS enables SAP BusinessObjects customers to:
FlexWIS components handle all the complex client-server interactions with the SAP BusinessObjects system. By setting a few simple properties to specify the BI System, report and data objects developers instantly gain access to managed, aggregated datasets which can be bound to other Flex components using the native Flex data binding framework. With the FlexWIS components, developers gain full programmatic data access through a rich set of methods and properties, allowing them to build sophisticated data navigation capabilities into their application with minimal code.
FlexWIS is supplied with a sample application provides a robust and stylish framework to get you up and running quickly. The sample application is designed to run across disparate devices and dynamically changes appearance and behavior to fit its environment.
FlexWIS is available in beta. General availability is expected later this year.
To find out more visit the FlexWIS page on Antivia's web-site.
Antivia, an SAP Solutions Partner, provides the most cost-effective way to create, manage and deploy actionable dashboards and interactive Business Intelligence (BI) applications on top of the SAP BusinessObjects BI platform, using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, Xcelsius, Adobe Flash Builder or the Adobe Flex SDK.
For enterprise SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Xcelsius projects, Antivia XWIS dramatically reduces dashboard development time and total cost of ownership, accelerates adoption and deployment of actionable dashboards and promotes effective decision making through increased interactivity and greater accessibility
Antivia FlexWIS connects Adobe Flash Builder and the Flex SDK with SAP BusinessObjects to allow rapid development of custom, interactive business intelligence applications (IBIAs).
XWIS has won numerous awards, including the SAP award for best integration with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.
Antivia's customers include: AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group, BMC Software, Bord Gais, Cochlear, Eli Lilly, Fifth Third Bank, Hewlett Packard, ING Direct, 20:20 Dialogue, Nissan-USA, Pratt & Whitney, Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, Swire Coca-Cola, and Telenor.
Antivia has offices in North America and Europe.
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