CEO
Richard (Rick) Tanler has more than 30 years of software industry experience. He is a recognized expert on business intelligence, demand chain management and data warehousing. Rick Tanler, was founder of Information Advantage, a company he established in 1990, took public in 1998; and sold to Sterling Software, later acquired by Computer Associates in 2000. Tanler wrote the first book predicting the impact of Internet technologies on data warehousing (The Intranet Data Warehouse, Published in 1997. Wiley & Sons).
eiVia defines SaaS as Solutions as a Service. SaaS is more than just hosted reporting. It is Decision Support solutions that incorporate the process, workflows, and actions to optimize outcomes. SaaS is an agile and elastic way to deploy solutions.
Whether deploying eiVia as SaaS or on-premise, eiVia emphasizes the need to demonstrate an ROI. We do this by focusing on optimizing outcomes.
eiVia leverages years of experience in the Business Intelligence market to deliver best practices in implementing successful Decision Support solutions.
Dashboards are useful for monitoring performance. They answer the question: “What happened?” Today, we need heads-up, forward-looking visibility that tells us what lies ahead. We need real-time Decision Support to effectively drive the business.
Decision Support provides the time-sensitive, advanced analytics and predictive models to support management process, workflows, and actions to optimize outcomes.
Decision Support answers the questions “Why?” “What if?” and “How best?”
Accurate up-to-the-minute forecasts, budgets and plans are essential to decision-making. eiVia provides the triple play: Versatile Reporting combined with Powerful Analysis and Collaborative Planning.
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Arguably, the most widely used Decision Support tool is the desktop spreadsheet. It is easy-to-use and versatile. It’s has been around for 31 years. But today, first generation desktop spreadsheets are being stretched well beyond their practical limits. eiVia is a different kind of online spreadsheet. It is an extension of a data warehouse. (more…)