Synchrony Synchrony is analytic software designed for business analysts and decision-makers to examine in-depth relationships across multiple aspects of their businesses. Based on the foundation of relational OLAP, and extended to encompass the full capability of multidimensional analysis, Synchrony permits you to understand your true business drivers. By utilizing temporal concepts and methodology, Synchrony becomes the framework of a new class of analytic application. Consider the Nature of a Query The fundamental nature of query behavior is exploration that is iterative in nature. Synchrony answers questions from simple to extremely complex by applying iterative conditions in order to understand the behavior of the business and its customers. As is the nature of all analysis, as one question is answered, another question will emerge. Synchrony embraces this iterative process and uses the answer to one question as the basis for the next question. The beauty of this methodology is that related questions can be constructed without requiring changes in the database. Synchrony is also a framework for a new class of customized analytic applications. This framework permits enterprise applications to create analytic power from enterprise data by integrating if technology. This framework is easy for the developer, elegant for short development cycles and extensible for custom functionality. What Do You Know About Change? Current data mart and business intelligence tools provide an "analysis of the obvious." They can answer questions about the effects of change, but leave the users to conjecture about the causes of change. For example, these tools permit a business user to look at sales by product over time. By allowing comparisons of sales from one period to another, however, users can see when and where sales are increasing or decreasing, by how much, and how fast. By utilizing temporal concepts and methodology, Synchrony permits more complex understanding of the context of your business in the answers it generates. For instance, this query:
Slowly Changing Dimensions: Aperiodic Changes In a data mart or warehouse, the characteristics of your information change over time, as data is accumulated. Those changes are often not predictable: changes in marital status, currency valuations, stock prices, demographics, personnel assignments, region or product definitions, employee performance, supply chain variance and all are likely to have profound effects on your business. Other query and reporting software, which delivers canned or parameterized reports with pivots and drill-downs, requires IT intervention to go beyond simple queries. Synchrony is designed to permit end users to perform analysis of behavioral changes in their customers, analysis of spending or purchasing patterns, analysis of related events over time or exceptions to related events. In other words, Synchronys power lies in bringing its temporal approach to bear on understanding your business. Make Synchronys Power Your Own
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