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Putting real-time metrics at your fingertips.

Why implement a BI portal?

Getting the right information at a critical moment can make the difference between a good business decision and a regrettable one.

Business Intelligence (BI) web portals collect data from multiple sources and display it all in a single place. They provide a quick, effective way to find the information you need when you need it.

BI Portal in Confluence

Collate it in Confluence 

Confluence, the most advanced enterprise wiki, offers secure online webpages where you can store, display and feed information. Ideal as a simple BI portal, Confluence does the hard work for you by providing:

  • a place to collate and display intelligence from multiple sources
  • free plugins that connect to your various applications and databases
  • real-time automatic calculations, charts and graphs

Bottom line — Confluence helps you make business decisions by showing you the information you need in one place.

Put it on your portal

Let Confluence act as the front-end to your information systems. Plugins can pull sales figures, inventory numbers, accounts, all kinds of data out of disparate back-end systems onto one screen.

Case study: How do teams within Sabre Holdings use Confluence?

Laks Krishnamoorthy, Sabre Holdings Some teams use it strictly for uploading materials and just as a communication vehicle, while other teams are using Confluence as their "religious" portal. They're putting everything in it for their teams — their project plans, their rosters, the status of their nightly builds. These groups automated that process so that it feeds into our Weekly Report automatically.

Read the Sabre Holdings case study >>

Use the Charting Plugin to display data and statistics visually in a range of graphical and chart formats:

Confluence as a portal
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Real-time updates

Confluence updates and publishes queries in real-time so you know your numbers are current. Using plugins, your Confluence portal can display data from different sources, such as:

  • external databases using SQL queries
  • SAP systems
  • Microsoft Excel spreadsheets

If required, you can even develop your own plugin to connect to your custom inhouse systems.

Industry intelligence

It's easy to embed an RSS news feed into your Confluence portal, so you can stay abreast of the latest news from external sources too.

Give Confluence a try as your BI portal.

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