The Essentials
- Management of all administrative functions for Insight Reporting™, Insight Budgeting™, Insight Reconciler™ and Insight Designer™
- Setup and maintain collaborative reporting environment in the Insight Repository
- Wizards expedite connections to one or more ERP databases and profile definitions
- Manage users and groups
- Robust controls for access and user capability
- Administer components of the Insight architecture
- Implement preferences for users, groups or the organization
- Quick, intuitive Microsoft Office 2007 style interface
- Backup and restore for security and disaster recovery
Repository and ERP Connection Setup
- Define user ID and passwords for the Insight Repository
- Connect to one or more ERP environments
- Profiles apply ERP specific logic to connections including:
- Table locations and selections
- ERP release and settings
- Insight Suite features
- Field formatting overrides to simplify user experience
User Management
- View results by users or by groups
- Apply Insight license keys and license assignments
- Synchronize users and groups directly from the ERP
- Create custom user groupings
- Assign users to one or more groups for flexible report access
- Define password policies including strength, expiration and scheduled change requirements
- Manage and reset encrypted passwords
System Management
- Create unlimited folder structures for organizing and accesses Templates
- Flexible search for Templates, folders and other content
- Logging functionality monitors user activity, report history and performance
- Save searches and export/print results
- Add descriptions to Templates for future reference
- Link evaluation tool for identifying invalid drilling options with update feature
- Import/export functionality supports content, users and more
- View SmartView™ properties (e.g. user and date)
- Analyze shared report components for troubleshooting
- Drag and drop or use ribbon bar functions to copy and paste components to save time with setup and configuration
Audit, Security and Control
- Leverage user and group settings for all security and control features
- Define additional security and masking rules for sensitive business areas
- Capabilities allow detailed access or restriction to Insight™ features and functions
- Permissions control view, update and delete rights of folders, Templates, ERP connections and more
- Audit essential reports for changes and access
- “View as user” feature validates permission settings
- Define ERP security application for each connection
View and Output
- Customize columns in the detailed explorer view
- Generate reports based on any search or view including user permissions, assigned capabilities, documents and more
- Customize the details that are included on reports
Disaster Recovery
- Seamlessly backup critical reporting and setup information
- Restore all or some of a backup to an existing or new repository
Specifications
| JD Edwards | Oracle E-Business Suite | |
|---|---|---|
| Supported ERP Platform | JD Edwards World, JD Edwards Enterprise One, JD Edwards Co-Existence | Oracle E-Business Suite |
| Supported ERP Versions | World: A7.3, A8.1, A9.0, A9.1 EnterpriseOne: XE, 8.x, 9.x |
11i, R12 |
| Supported Database | SQL Server, Oracle, DB/2, DB/2 for i | Oracle |
| Insight Deployment Options | Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 Windows Terminal Services, Citrix Click Once Web Deployment |
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 Windows Terminal Services, Citrix Click Once Web Deployment |
| Foundation | Microsoft .NET Framework | Microsoft .NET Framework |













