Prism, an all inclusive Business Intelligence (BI) software that enables users, novices as well as professionals to build instant visual, actionable and interactive BI applications within minutes and without BI infrastructure and programming knowledge was developed by SiSense.Without the necessity to build and process OLAP cubes thus providing the OLAP advantages to regular relational databases users, connecting easily to various data sources like OLAP, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Excel etc., Prism converts the tabular form of the database into a multidimensional model that simulates an OLAP structure.
Without single line of programming, the software enables simultaneous data retrieval from various data sources and the creation of complicated multidimensional filters and formulas, reports, ad-hoc analytics, dynamic dashboards. Just Drag-n-Drop.Any typical Excel user can easily create advanced applications that can be updated in real-time over his or her data sources because Working with Prism is very simple.
There is no need for a dedicated server because The deployment is immediate. Just download, install and use.
According to the permissions given to them by the author of the document, documents created by Prism can be distributed via a Prism Viewer which enables the recipients of the documents to further analyze the data embedded in the document. A PDF reader, compared to the Prism Viewer, is static and a table or chart embedded within it cannot be changed by the reader. Data distributed in a Prism document, in contrast, can be read and further drilled or modified by the reader. Allowing the documents to be refreshed in real-time directly from the reader's computer, Prism documents, in addition, can also contain connectivity settings for the source data.
The use of Prism, in organizations which already deploy BI platforms, can dramatically enlarge the circle of BI users and bring it down the line to everybody who needs information to improve their and consequently the organization's productivity and efficiency.
By deploying Prism at a price of a typical Web 2.0 application, organizations which, for any reason, do not have a BI infrastructure can immediately get BI power.