Software platform Contour BI 4.1 is the complex of integrated software products for collecting, warehousing, and publishing information.

Key features of Contour BI 4.1 are:

Simplicity of learning

Short deployment time

Orientation on general public

Embedded statistical and business algorithms

Contour BI allows to gather, store, analyze and publish information for distributed organizations and for public users. A powerful global solution can be set up in a short delay – 3 to 6 months by a small team of specialists.
Collecting Data

Contour BI allows building global data collecting systems for business and statistics. Source data is collected in text, XML, or SDMX-enabled XML files over the Internet.

There are prebuilt modules for automatic uploading data from most popular ERP systems; for any other datasource it is possible to set up an ETL (Extract-Trnsform-Load) process in user-friendly graphical interface.
Data Warehousing

Data are stored in Contour DWH – the cross-platform data warehouse, in combination with various data collecting systems.

The warehouse model sets up with no programming, in terms of the business application. All database objects – tables, views, and indexes are created automatically. Also automated is the adaptation of data collecting formats.

Getting data for visualization tools – report generators and analysis systems – is done with simple interface of views, so learning the internals of the warehouse is not needed.

Contour DWH can store a huge volume of statistical information – terabytes of data in hundreds and thousands of time series.
Analysis

Contour Reporter is intended for quick building of interactive (OLAP) reports by non-technical users, and for easy information analysis.

Contour Reporter allows viewing reports from different angles, filter, pivot, and drill through data.

Contour Reporter is a “”thick client”” . It offers a large variety of tools and functions: formula editor, synchronous and asynchronous charting, advanced dynamic sorting, filtering top or bottom N items.

Contour Reporter can connect to either Contour DWH or any other relational databases and warehouses.

Settings made in Contour Reporter are stored in open XML repository, and reports are stored in small mobile containers caled microcubes, suitable for publishing on the Internet.