Simple but Powerful
You may be learning about Yurbi® for the first time, but we've been working with users on the best way to build reports for over 10 years. The result is the Yurbi Builder--a simple but powerful interface. As discussed in the Access section of the tour, the Yurbi App translates the complexity of the data into business terms that users can easily understand. The Yurbi Builder interface takes that to the next step by allowing users to quickly select the data fields they want in their report and then use a collection of tools and wizards to build powerful reports. Yurbi has all the features you would expect in a report builder but none of the complexity. The key difference between Yurbi and other report writing software is that Yurbi puts all the report-writing features at your fingertips and there is no proprietary query language to learn in order to build reports.
Designed for Metrics and KPIs
Yurbi includes many features that make key performance indicator (KPI) and metric reporting easy. For example, Yurbi recognizes a date value in a data field and allows you to quickly design reports that prompt users for time ranges such as Today, Yesterday, This Month, Year to Date, and more without requiring you to write any formulas or code. In addition, Yurbi makes it easy to represent that date value as a Month Name or Day of the Week, or even as a Duration from the Current Date so that builders can quickly create reports that show trends and patterns over time. Once built these reports can quickly be shared with other users or incorporated into powerful dashboards. Yurbi greatly reduces the time and expertise needed to build any type of report.
Combine Data Sources with Ease
The whole is more than the sum of all parts is something we definitely believe in. That's why we make it really easy to connect data from multiple data sources into combined metrics, KPIs, and reports. Yurbi includes a wizard that makes it easy to combine multiple data sources and apply formulas and criteria WITHOUT requiring the need to create data warehouses, OLAP cubes, SQL replication or any of those technical things (read more about it in the data virtualization section of the tour).
A few examples of the power of data when combined with other data:
- Metrics from a help desk system are valuable, but combined with data from a phone system or a financial system you can create measures that help drive business decisions concerning cost of service and customer service.
- Patient data from an electronic medical record system can provide patient outcome statistics, but linking that data with financial information can add the dimension of health care cost to the analysis.
- Analyzing sales data from a purchasing system or CRM tool can be valuable, but when combined with time, project management, and service desk data understanding the true profitability or resource cost per customer can be invaluable.
- Linking together multiple vendor products in the datacenter, such system and network monitoring, asset management, and change and incident systems provides a complete view of performance, system availability, and service level agreements.
