Hosted in the cloud, the business intelligence (BI) solution extracts and consolidates transactional data from a company's existing business systems and delivers performance metrics to decision makers through the ProfitBase InFront Analytics dashboard in a browser product, Microsoft SharePoint, PerformancePoint Excel, or their preferred front-end tool, according to ProfitBase.

ProfitBase has said that the Hosted Software as a Service Business Intelligence (Hosted SaaS BI) solution is configured and deployed using ProfitBase 2009, a data warehouse and online analytical processing cube deployment accelerator for Microsoft SQL Server. ProfitBase 2009 includes ready-to-use business templates consisting of business logic, key performance indicators and dimensions for finance, sales, inventory, purchasing, accounts receivable, human resources, manufacturing, healthcare, retail and others.

Larry LeBlanc, president and CEO of ProfitBase North America, said: "In this difficult economy, businesses are conserving cash but are still looking for ways to deliver better information to their decision makers. With our Hosted BI solution, businesses are able to change what was an upfront capital expenditure to a low monthly expense. They conserve cash and at the same time greatly improve the quality of information required to make day-to-day decisions."

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