Name: Contour BI
Price: 1000 USD
Author: Contour Components

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Management

Data Extraction

Operational Analytics

Risk Management

Streaming Analytics

Enterprise

Accounting

Budgeting and Forecasting

Cash Flow Management

Crypto Accounting

Crypto Asset Management

Investor Relations

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Background Check

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Recognition

HR Management

Payroll

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Technical Skills Assessment

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Authorization

Cloud Storage

Continuous Delivery

Converged Infrastructure

Data Fabric

Data Science

Fraud Detection

IT Service Providers

Identity Verification

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Intranet

IoT Security

Network Monitoring

Network Performance Monitoring

NoSQL Databases

Secret Managers

Web Portal

Wireless WAN

Information Technology

A/B Testing

AI Image Generation

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Audio Editing

Content Management

Email Marketing

Marketing Automation

Predictive Analytics

Retail Media Advertising

Screen and Video Capture

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Video

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Wireframing

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Revenue Operations

Sales

API Security

Security

Animal Shelter

Architecture

Chargeback Management

Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Debt Collection

Dental

Moving Software

Oil and Gas

Tax Practice Management

Vertical-Specific

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Contour BI is a business intelligence solution designed for interactive reporting, data analysis, and report distribution. According to the vendor, it caters to public organizations, statistical and sociological agencies, banks, and private enterprises of various sizes. The product is utilized by IT specialists, managers, analysts, banks and financial organizations, as well as professionals in public organizations. With its features and user-friendly interface, Contour BI aims to empower users to create and distribute reports without the need for extensive programming expertise, making it a potential tool for data-driven decision-making across different industries.

## Key Features

**Contour Reporter**: According to the vendor, Contour Reporter is a business intelligence tool that enables users to access data, create interactive reports, and perform data analysis without the need for deep programming knowledge. It offers a visual environment for report creation and publishing, as well as a "thick" client for advanced data analysis.

**Contour BI Portal**: The vendor states that Contour BI Portal is a web application designed for publishing interactive reports. It showcases report catalogs containing interactive tables, charts, and multi-layer maps. The portal provides an adaptive GUI optimized for desktops, smartphones, and tablets, with support for large user numbers and work groups handling extensive reports.

**Contour Publisher**: According to the vendor, Contour Publisher is a script-based console tool that automates report updating and delivery. It queries relational databases, creates or updates reports in various formats, and delivers them to subscribers via FTP, email, or folders. It offers the flexibility to run on-demand or on a predetermined schedule.

**Fast Solutions Creation**: Contour BI offers a graphical environment that aims to facilitate the rapid creation of corporate reports. According to the vendor, reports can be designed without extensive programming, reducing the reliance on technical expertise. The application incorporates smart tools and technologies that aim to expedite the report creation process.

**Easy Report Designing**: The vendor claims that reports in Contour Reporter are designed without the need for deep technical knowledge or programming skills. The application includes smart tools and technologies that aim to streamline the report design process, making it efficient and user-friendly.

**Advanced Data Analysis**: Contour BI provides various modes that aim to grant users quick and clear access to information. According to the vendor, Contour Reporter serves as a "thick" client for advanced data analysis. Users can view reports created with Contour Reporter and published through Contour BI Portal using only their browsers.

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Contour Components

BI Platform

Administration via Windows App

Administration via MacOS App

Administration via Web Interface

Live Connection to External Data

Snapshot of External Data

In-memory data model

OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)

ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)

Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)

Data warehouse / dictionary layer

ETL Capability

ETL Scheduler

Supported Data Sources

Data sources that can be consumed by the application.

MS Excel Workbooks

Text Files (CSV, etc)

Oracle

MS SQL Server

IBM DB2

Postgres

MySQL

ODBC

Cloudera Hadoop

Hortonworks Hadoop

EMC Greenplum

IBM Netezza

HP Vertica

ParAccel

SAP Hana

Teradata

Sage 500

Salesforce

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

Pixel Perfect reports

Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

Customizable dashboards

Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

Report Formatting Templates

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

Drill-down analysis

Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

Formatting capabilities

Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.

Predictive modeling

Predictive modeling is the ability to build future forecasting models.

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.

Report sharing and collaboration

Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Output Raw Supporting Data

Report Versioning

Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.

Report Delivery Scheduling

Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.

Delivery to Remote Servers

Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.

Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.

Support for Machine Learning models

Machine learning refers to computer programs that can learn when exposed to new data.

Pattern Recognition and Data Mining

Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

Multi-User Support (named login)

Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.

Role-Based Security Model

Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.

Report-Level Access Control

Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.

Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)

Contour BI

Overview

What is Contour BI?