MiView™ is a new visual reporting tool that creates powerful graphical summaries of essential business information from multiple disparate sources.

MiView™ delivers the insight into information you need, to accelerate decision making and improve profitability.

Our mission is to 'Improve the value of your information'. We have a lot of experience in delivering information systems,; and integrating IT systems in order to get at and display information. We noticed that not only were we delivering real benefits very quickly, but the way we did this, and the software we used, had a different approach from all other vendors in this market.

In addition, all our systems paid for themselves within weeks of implementation,; unlike many others which takes months or even years and frequently fail to meet expectations. We decided that we could package our whole solution together 'as MiView™ '.

MiView™ is delivered via a consultative process; this allows us to deliver a system that is configured specifically to meet the customer's requirements exactly.
Our Business Information Review process is one of the key steps to unlock the potential of your information systems, and we know from previous projects that we can identify and deliver significant business benefits using this process.

Our deployment method is different from other vendors in that it concentrates on identifying and solving business problems, and coming up with technical solutions to solving these problems. These solutions are based upon our toolset, and our proven ability in system integration, should technical issues arise.

The other factor is our deployment methodology. This starts with the BIR(Business Information Review), and has been shown to provide real business benefits in every customer who has used it.

When this is combined with our toolset, and our ability to overcome any integration issues that may arise, then can confidently say we have a different solution.

Finally, MiView™ was designed to provide users with a system that can be implemented in weeks, with ease of use and data source creation, along with a level of drill down and analysis capability that is suitable for all users not just technical staff. This is different from other solutions.

MiView™ is new in that it combines a unique set of elements in one deliverable system, at a new level of price / performance.
The elements are:

• A proven structured deployment method starting with our Business Information Review process. This effectively audits your existing systems to identify information gaps and records your specific requirements. The BIR (Business Information Review)deliverables outline the configuration, implementation plan and costs, coordinating the MiView™ deployment that will deliver your specific business benefits.
• A new 3 part toolset specifically designed and developed by us. This performs 3 functions - data acquisition, data management, and finally data distribution and display
• Ongoing support via a comprehensive support contract with help desk, bug fixing, and enhancements. All customers with support contracts get new product releases as part of their contract - complete with what ever enhancements are in that release.

These are combined with a pricing and license model which sets new parameters of price / performance for this market.

We aim to offer 80 - 90% functionality of the traditional "top tier" vendors at 10 - 20% of the cost.

We can do this by use of our own toolsets, and by charging appropriate, not extravagant, fees.

The other difference is our focus purely on business processes and deliverables, which is unlike our competitors, who tend to focus on technology and/or software features. This means we can guarantee your business will definitely get the benefits you desire, and the return on your investment will be measured in weeks not years.

The Toolset is designed as 2 sets of libraries, with a management console.

Fig 1 MiView Toolset Overview

The libraries control data in to and out of the management console. The input library is a set of what we have called smart data adapters. These bring data from any external source into the management console. By using a library, although our development took longer, we have ensured that MiView™ not only can cater for all known existing data sources and formats, but that it is future proof. To add a new source we simply amend or add a new library routine. The management console holds all the data imported in one central database, and controls all the data output. In addition, the console controls all scheduling and all user accounts. The console sends output data to the output library for presentation to the output devices.

The output library works in a similar manner to the input library, but controls the output of data from the console. It is future proof in the same way as the input library.

There are different options for MiView™

Managed Server: The MiView™ application, its associated database and all required files are installed onto a new dedicated server supplied by us. Once the MiView™ server install is complete the server is delivered to the customer site and added to the network fully functional and ready to go.

Installed: An expert team will come onto a customer site and install the MiView™ application and associated files onto an existing server and configure the local databases to accommodate MiView™ data storage.

We are happy to discuss with you which is most appropriate to your situation.

One of the differentiators of our process is that after the first implementation customers have the potential to unlock additional business benefits, by continuing the procedure that resulted in the BIR (Business Information Review) Report and the MiViex™ implementation.

The BIR( Business Information Review) process will have defined a number of potential benefit areas within the organisation. Some or all of these will have been targeted in the implementation. Users can either continue to implement already defined areas using the same framework, or repeat the BIR(Business Information Review) process for other parts of their organisation. In either case, the process remains the same, and the mechanism to deliver the benefits is consistent.

In addition you get a comprehensive support arrangement which gives you:

• A review every six months by your project manager
• Helpdesk and Support
• Bug Fixing & Enhancement releases at no charge

MiView™ is currently integrated in Microsoft® Active Directory and as such is dependant on being installed on a Microsoft Server®. The MiView™ application is served out using Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 along with .Net2 components.

The system is capable of being run on Oracle or SQL Server databases. All our development has been on Oracle. We then test on SQL Server.

MiView™ has been developed to run under all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, and a version that is compatible with Firefox will be released shortly.

We have created a library of Smart Adapters which are used to import many different information sources, including:

• Oracle
• Excel
• XML
• SQL Server
• ODBC
• Microsoft Access
• Web Screen Scrape
• RSS Feeds & Web Services
• And many others

Our objective is to create many, many more smart adapters as we deliver more MiView™ solutions.

And, because we have developed MiView™ using our toolset and library approach, we can add and develop these data adapters dependent on user requirements and/or technology changes.

We can solve your problem by using our proven integration expertise to devise a technical solution. By taking the solution and adding it to the toolset library, it means subsequent users gain from the addition. Similarly, you will gain from other users input.

Our company is founded upon many integration projects. We have shown we can integrate almost anything with anything. Please speak to our customers who can verify this.

We have combined these experiences with a design concept, to produce MiView™ - a library based solution to data capture and display.

This approach means that MiView™ is genuinely future proof.

Yes, MiView™ has an administration function which provides users with the capability of defining imports, creating views upon these imports and then scheduling these imports so that information is automatically refreshed in the background. The MiView™ dashboard also comes with a Chart Wizard facility and Crystal Report deployment manager which enables local users to create reports and charts for themselves.

Yes. Our output presentation allows you to choose how and when you deploy the information you have gathered. You can get the data in one way and deploy it in another - that's one of MiView's™ strengths. Deployment can be via a wide variety of methods - Internet, email, paper, etc. in a wide variety of data formats.

Yes. The management console allows you to define your own set of reports in exactly the format you want. (Remember a "report" may not be a report it could be anything - e.g. update of a graph) In addition, you can set up a schedule of when you want them to run, and who you want to get them. In this way you can take away a whole level of administration, and leave MiView™ to do all this for you.

No. In fact you will gain. One of the features of MiView™ is that you can deploy Crystal Reports via any of the output presentation objects. So, you can deploy your Crystal by any method - actually adding deployment benefits (such as standard print reports via web browser) which are not available on some versions of Crystal.

Yes. Not only can we interface to these, but the MiView™ Plasma presentation tool is completely content managed and users can configure the layout and add in different data sources as required. These can be static or dynamic as required. Please contact us and we can show you examples.

MiView™ handles these devices as just another output or presentation device, so you need not worry about this type of problem (sometimes found in other systems) even if they are only intermittently connected.

Every client takes out a comprehensive post installation support contract. This covers help desk, bug fixing and new releases. All customers on support get new releases as part of their contract at no extra charge (installation / upgrade services are available on request if users want us to do this).

In addition, your project manager will perform a six monthly check on your installation to ensure that the project keeps delivering the benefits defined, or is adapted to changed circumstances.

All enhancements (change requests) go through our standard ISO9000 Change Management System. Each CR is estimated and scheduled by the Product Review board. Enhancements may be requested and paid for by clients, be part of our product development, and be funded by us, or a combination of these. All enhancements, once approved and included, are available to all customers in the standard product.