Budgeting and forecasting
WriteBackPlugin for MicroStrategy
Tool for faster and cheaper development of customized writeback solutions for Microstrategy Web and Office
What is WriteBack Plugin?
• WriteBackPlugin is a plugin for Microstrategy Web and an Add-on for Microstrategy Office • WriteBackPlugin allows you to convert MicroStrategy Web grid reports into data input forms with few mouse clicks without need to do any manual coding • WriteBackPlugin supports standard HTML input controls (text box, drop-down list, check box, radio button) which could be configured for desired data management functionality.
What is WriteBack Plugin?
• The use of WriteBackPlugin is limitless – you can build different data management solutions tailored for particular company’s business process and data management needs • WriteBackPlugin allows to develop forms for closed-loop workflow – validation, approval, attachment handling and others that require data collection from users • Application is approved by MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Architecture
FMS Writeback Plugin enabled
Benefits of WriteBack Plugin
The main benefits of WriteBackPlugin include: • Decreased development time and cost of custom solution development for MicroStrategy Web and Office • Expands existing functionality of MicroStrategy software as BI tool to cover different needs of data collection or business process support.
Benefits of WriteBack Plugin
• Centralized Web and Desktop – based FMS WriteBack metadata configuration interface that allows to easily configure writeback capabilities and custom SQL definition • Multi language support and user interfaces • Messages can be localized using MicroStrategy Web standard localization techniques
Budgeting and forecasting
Examples of WriteBackPlugin applications
Example: Budgeting solution
Deploy Budgeting solution within your MicroStrategy environment: • Create flexible budget input forms • Maintain several versions and/or scenarios • Implement what-if analysis • Manage budget workflows and approvals
Example: Data Quality solution
Enhance your MicroStrategy environment with Data Quality functionality: • Add missing data to the data warehouse • Validate user data input to ensure data quality • Implement complex data transformation algorithms
Example: Document Management
Enhance your MicroStrategy environment with Document Management functionality: • Save documents in MicroStrategy Web • Share documents with other MicroStrategy users • Store documents in centralized location
Process description
Administrator
WriteBack Editor
Configures WriteBack controls
and properties
Sets tables and fields, where data is stored
MicroStrategy Web
Users
Enter data into writeback form
controls, like textboxes,
radiobuttons, checkboxes, and
attachments
MicroStrategy Office
Writeback Setup
Technical information
• Windows
• Linux
• Unix Platforms
• MS SQL Server 2005/2008
• Oracle Database 10g/11g
• IBM DB2
• Teradata V13, MySQL, PostgreSQL
Databases
• Writeback for Web: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari (also on iPad)
• WriteBack Editor: MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
• WriteBack Excel Add-on: MicroStrategy Office 9.0.x, 9.2.x and MS Excel 2007
Clients
• Special installer to provide seamless installation
• Detailed configuration guide and demo project example Installation
• Available upon request Other
configurations
Pricing
Free version
•Available at www.writebackplugin.com
•Limited to 5 writeback forms
Full version
•Full license cost - USD 5000
•Licensing model – per web server instance
•No matter how much CPU or cores used by the server
•No matter how much MicroStrategy named users defined
Maintenance
•Free first year maintenance
•Second year maintenance cost - USD 1000
•Maintenance includes:
•New versions and fixes
•Online technical support
•Consulting services - USD 100 per hour
Contacts
Kaspars Vītols FMS WriteBackPlugin Sales Manager [email protected] +371 26460462 www.writebackplugin.com Online demo: http://mstr-demo.fms.lv/asp (username: demo, password : demo) Free version available on: www.writebackplugin.com