Budgeting and forecasting

WriteBackPlugin for MicroStrategy

Tool for faster and cheaper development of customized writeback solutions for Microstrategy Web and Office

What is WriteBack Plugin?

• WriteBackPlugin is a plugin for Microstrategy Web and an Add-on for Microstrategy Office • WriteBackPlugin allows you to convert MicroStrategy Web grid reports into data input forms with few mouse clicks without need to do any manual coding • WriteBackPlugin supports standard HTML input controls (text box, drop-down list, check box, radio button) which could be configured for desired data management functionality.

What is WriteBack Plugin?

• The use of WriteBackPlugin is limitless – you can build different data management solutions tailored for particular company’s business process and data management needs • WriteBackPlugin allows to develop forms for closed-loop workflow – validation, approval, attachment handling and others that require data collection from users • Application is approved by MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Architecture

FMS Writeback Plugin enabled

Benefits of WriteBack Plugin

The main benefits of WriteBackPlugin include: • Decreased development time and cost of custom solution development for MicroStrategy Web and Office • Expands existing functionality of MicroStrategy software as BI tool to cover different needs of data collection or business process support.

Benefits of WriteBack Plugin

• Centralized Web and Desktop – based FMS WriteBack metadata configuration interface that allows to easily configure writeback capabilities and custom SQL definition • Multi language support and user interfaces • Messages can be localized using MicroStrategy Web standard localization techniques

Budgeting and forecasting

Examples of WriteBackPlugin applications

Example: Budgeting solution

Deploy Budgeting solution within your MicroStrategy environment: • Create flexible budget input forms • Maintain several versions and/or scenarios • Implement what-if analysis • Manage budget workflows and approvals

Example: Data Quality solution

Enhance your MicroStrategy environment with Data Quality functionality: • Add missing data to the data warehouse • Validate user data input to ensure data quality • Implement complex data transformation algorithms

Example: Document Management

Enhance your MicroStrategy environment with Document Management functionality: • Save documents in MicroStrategy Web • Share documents with other MicroStrategy users • Store documents in centralized location

Process description

Administrator

WriteBack Editor

Configures WriteBack controls

and properties

Sets tables and fields, where data is stored

MicroStrategy Web

Users

Enter data into writeback form

controls, like textboxes,

radiobuttons, checkboxes, and

attachments

MicroStrategy Office

Writeback Setup

Technical information

• Windows

• Linux

• Unix Platforms

• MS SQL Server 2005/2008

• Oracle Database 10g/11g

• IBM DB2

• Teradata V13, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Databases

• Writeback for Web: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari (also on iPad)

• WriteBack Editor: MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox

• WriteBack Excel Add-on: MicroStrategy Office 9.0.x, 9.2.x and MS Excel 2007

Clients

• Special installer to provide seamless installation

• Detailed configuration guide and demo project example Installation

• Available upon request Other

configurations

Pricing

Free version

•Available at www.writebackplugin.com

•Limited to 5 writeback forms

Full version

•Full license cost - USD 5000

•Licensing model – per web server instance

•No matter how much CPU or cores used by the server

•No matter how much MicroStrategy named users defined

Maintenance

•Free first year maintenance

•Second year maintenance cost - USD 1000

•Maintenance includes:

•New versions and fixes

•Online technical support

•Consulting services - USD 100 per hour

Contacts

Kaspars Vītols FMS WriteBackPlugin Sales Manager Kaspars.Vitols@writebackplugin.com +371 26460462 www.writebackplugin.com Online demo: http://mstr-demo.fms.lv/asp (username: demo, password : demo) Free version available on: www.writebackplugin.com