DATACUBE

ABusinessIntelligenceand
DecisionMakingTool

Capabilities of DataCube
Data Integration
DataCube runs on various databases through ODBC
connectivity. It supports MS-Access, MySQL, Oracle,
Sybase, IBM DB2 or Any other ODBC supported database,
however large your database maybe. It also supports
Fixed ASCII Formatted files like MS-Excel and Delimited
Formatted ASCII files like MS-Word, Notepads, etc.
Your organization accumulates a lot of data, and it's
probably spread across multiple databases and
operational systems, making it no easy task to access the
information when you need it. By integrating your data

Data Warehousing
If your company's data is like that of most companies, it
resides in many places, such as multiple databases and
operational systems. A data warehouse is the container
that brings it all together to help you get critical
information into the right hands more easily. The data
warehousing component of Datacube BI provides a
central location for storing data and maintaining all your
important historical and current business information.
There are many ways to get data into a report, but that's
only part of the solution. An effective report creates a
compelling story and communicates with clarity to
audiences large or small. Datacube BI can help you get
there with informative reports that lead to sound decision

Reporting

OLAP
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) provides business users with
access to data optimized for non-technical information workers for
easy navigation, analysis, and reporting. DataCube's industry
leading OLAP engine not only combines your data for easy analysis
but also centrally stores your institutional business logic and key
performance indicators (KPIs).

Analysis

Getting information is often just a first step in the decision-making

process. When you view a report or scorecard and notice something
unexpected, you want to know why. Datacube BI can help when this
happens and it happens often. Powerful analysis tools help people
develop a deeper understanding of business information and take
decisive action. Analyze data using suggestive and automated
insights.

Compact Summary

Datacube automatically creates a very compact

database with well defined tables. This database where
the entire cube resides is of your choice i.e. Oracle,
MySQL, IBM DB2, Ms-Access, Sybase, etc.
i.e. If a transactional database has got 12.5 million rows
and occupies 14GB hard disk space, the cube will be
created within 8 GB thereby saving precious server
space
along and reduce the response time in generating
reports
/ dashboards
to incremental
less than a minute.
Datacube
can process
data without having

Incremental Update

to reload all previously existing data. The cube can show

current/latest/live data in the results/reports. It updates
data at approx. 4,000 rows a minute. This saves time and

Selective Deletion
Old data residing in the cube can also be deleted based upon specific
criteria. e.g. delete all data where sale date is < year 2002.

Cube Designer

Datacube has an exclusive feature wherein you can create multiple

models within a single database using dimensions or master from
different databases. You can also use a dimension in multiple
models. You can model data in a self-service and web-based
environment
This allows you to generate a single report/dashboard using different
fields from different databases. e.g. if you need to generate a report
giving you the costs of maintaining different offices against the
revenue generated by them, then the financial transactional
database gives you the expenses made and the revenue generated

Predictive Analytics
Sometimes you have to sift through layers of information
before a key data point shines through and you reach an
insight. The problem for many is that rooting out the
drivers of business performance and drawing correlations
among them can require using unfamiliar and
complicated tools. Datacube BI can change that with
easy-to-use predictive analytics functionality that can
help your organization uncover hidden trends and
Being aligned in
with
opportunities
its your
data.corporate objectives is a constant
process that requires access to sound information.
Scorecards and dashboards help people monitor
performance and tie goals, status, or trends in easy-toconsume KPIs. Datacube BI integrates them deeply into

Scorecards and Dashboards

Planning and Budgeting

Effective planning, forecasting, and budgeting are vital for
your company's success. Many organizations manually
manage plans and budgets, which leads to uncertainty in
the data and a huge amount of money spent on
maintaining this manual process. Datacube BI can help
automate the management process without
undermining

the decision-making processes you currently use.

Delivery

Datacube BI will put an end to the drain of time and

resources when people have to hunt down pieces of
information that are strewn across file shares, Web sites,
intranets, databases, and individual desktops. The key to
making data easier to consume is to provide a single

User Interface of Your choice

DataCube comes with two dynamic linked libraries,
which facilitate creation of Visual Studio Applications to
build a cube as well as a preferred user interface of
reporting.

Enterprise Search
People are familiar with searching
the Internet to find information.
Wouldn't it be great if searching

Tools For Analysis

Drill-Down & Roll-Up
Drilling down is the process of zooming in on
data at lower level, thus seeing the members
that make up the current value. E.g. when
viewing your companys sales per country,
you can drill-down on a country to see the
sales per city within that country. Rolling-up
is the inverse of drilling-down, thus rolling-up
on a city will provide the values per country.

Save, Retrieve & Delete Grids

Allows users to save and retrieve the grids at
your free will. One can create any number of
grids, which when reopened will display results as
per the current data.

Model Diagram
Model diagrams provide you with a birds eye
view of all elements of the cube you are
currently working with. This not only includes
all dimensions, hierarchies, levels, members
and measures, but you can also see the
elements data values for those elements and
general cube information (such as the last
modification and processed date). The cube
meta data can be viewed graphically or as a
tree and can be searched and printed.

Printing & Exporting

You can print or export the information you are viewing to a
variety of targets, including HTML, Excel, Word, PDF or as an
email message. Before printing, you can optionally preview the
output and add your own headers, footers and other
customizations.

Contributions & Extra Results

Within a grid, it is possible to display extra results
next to the already present values. These extra
results can be as contributions (in %) to the
row/column or totals. You can also add extra rows
or columns to the grid giving statistical
calculations based on the results. These
statistical calculations are total, average, count,
minimum, maximum, standard deviation and
variance.

Powerful Charts
Datacube Charts are powerful with 200+ graph
types like Bar, Pie, Column, Stack, Point, Bubble,
Area, etc. with option to change colour, legends,
2D/3D, etc.
Option for Forecasting, Regression Analysis,
Moving Averages, etc. also available with
graphs.

Calculated Members
New calculations can be created, including common
business calculations (totals, % difference, ratios,
etc.), period comparisons (cumulative, change from
last year/period, change from last year period in %,
etc.), distinct count with basket analysis and
statistical calculations (averages, standard
deviation, variation, maximum, etc.). This can be
done at the reporting stage as well as the module
building stage. This can be done at the Model
building stage as an additional dimension or at the
report generation stage.

Slicing
Slicing data is the process of setting the context
of the information you are viewing. E.g. you can
view the sales per customer in the context of the
year 2000 for products A And / Or B. Setting
the context is easy in Datacube, just select the
dimension for which you want to include in the
current context and move into condition
windows.

Exception Highlighting
You can use exception highlighting (Icons,
Bar, Fonts, Cell Colour, etc..) to focus
attention on certain values. By applying
exception highlighting rules you can
quickly see which values qualify as being
exceptional, such as the best performing
stores or the worst performing products.
Exceptions can also be totalled through
range calculations.

Filtering & Sorting

You can filter your results to exclude or
include values that meet certain
conditions akin to that in MS Excel. You can
also sort your results by simply clicking
the title of the column on which you want
to sort.

Multiple Date & Time

Options
You can select date & time options to
support logic of current, next, previous etc.
in hierarchies to see the YTD for this year,
previous year, etc and also help merge the
results to get a comparative study.

Collaborative Notes
You can update notes for a report in the
manner that you want with the program
recording the user name with the date and
time the note is made. Previously updated
notes can be viewed by all accessing the
report. Collaborate with colleagues at the
report level.

Much More:
Many more powerful features are available within the
product, call us for a demonstration to find out more!
Once a Model is created on a standalone machine,
the Database file can be copied to another machine
and put in the same directory where the Community
Edition has been installed to analyse the same Model
on the second machine.
You can create a link database to share the Model
through LAN.
Datacube is available in Single Machine Multi-user
Windows based version and Multi-user Web based
version.

In Brief ........

Add On Features...
HoneyComb:

A totally new concept in automation and event-driven

computing. It is an Event scheduler & Trigger.
Event Scheduler is where you can schedule a report to be generated on a set date and
time automatically as a single event or periodically, i.e. daily, weekly, monthly or
annually. You can also have the report automatically sent out to individuals, as required.
Event Trigger is where the application will send out an email, a sticky-note or a SMS to a
user or user group, to inform them of the values within the report generated or if the
values within the report generated go beyond the calculated or programmed
parameters. E.g. if the daily sales value is outside the set Lower Spec (Rs 90,000)
and/or Upper Spec (Rs 1,10,000), then the system will automatically generate an
email/SMS/Sticky-note to inform the concerned user or group of users of this
occurrence.
Features:

Multi-user and individual user security. Facility to create multiple user groups.
Create Events and Event triggers.
Multiple forms of result exports through Email/SMS/Sticky-note.
Multiple layers of calendar settings.
Connection to DataCube or any other application generating reports in Excel or XML.

Mobile Access: Where you can access reports generated by

Datacube through your mobile. This application does not depend on
the make or model of your mobile.

And Many more to come...

LikeDatacubeontheCloud.....
Note:
Both the above applications i.e. HoneyComb and Mobile
Access are for use with Web-based Multiuser Datacube
version.

DataCubeandHoneyCombas
Industrial Automation Solutions
Surprised !!!!!!!!!
Honeybee Computers has got the expertise to write smaller applications to connect to
any type of Industrial or Domestic Automation Device that generates data in Digital,
Analog, or any other format through serial ports like RS232 or RS422, etc.
This application will collect data to create a database, which when connected with the
application DataCube along with HoneyComb can also replace the expensive
Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and their add-on applications.
You can connect multiple databases set up for different devices to a single DataCube
and HoneyComb application.
Based on the reports generated by DataCube and findings through HoneyComb,
you can also set up a program to generate a return response to the automation device
for control of the main machine.
All this without any additional costs of Hardware or devices, database or addon applications, leading to significant reduction in overall project costs.

A single copy of DataCube and

HoneyComb application can be used
conjunctly as an Industrial Automation
Solution and a Business Intelligence &
Analytics tool, both at the same time to
give you

Value For Money

and an unbelievable

Return on Investment

SomeofOurEsteemClients
usingDataCube

COTMAC ELECTRONICS PVT. LTD.

About Us:
Honeybee Computers is a Pune, India based company set up in
1997 by Mr Mohammed Kaka a USA national, with MBAs in
Finance From Aligarh Muslim University, India & Decision Support
Systems, from University of Wisconsin, USA.
Mr Kaka has over 30 years experience in the field of developing
various software in the USA. He has developed the Datacube
application along with its add-on applications i.e. HoneyComb and
Mobile Access single handed using his expertise in software
development and Decision Support System knowledge.
Honeybee Computers has executed various projects including one
from Sansui Software for the development of ASPX web application to
make online advertising for a US based company BrandMuscle.

DataCube Community Edition 4.5 released.

For free download, click on the below link
http://community.honeybeecomputers.com
A sample Model, "Internet Sales", is also provided using which you can see the various
features of the DataCube. Please note this version can only be used with MS-Access
database.

Also visit
http://www.honeybeecomputers.com.
For Video tutorials on how to create dimensions and Models, work with the DataCube,
etc..

Contact Details
Email: [email protected]
Mr Mohammed Kaka - (+91) 8983973552
Email: [email protected]

For Demonstrations & Sales Contact:

Mr Mustafa Jhaveri - (+91) 9552696899
Email: [email protected]

Thank You