The Gorman-Rupp Company (Gorman-Rupp) is the first company to go live with the new Vizion Business Intelligence (BI) applications for MAC-PAC XE. This new solution set was announced in September, 2004, and is delivered jointly by Vizion Solutions and TDCI. Gorman-Rupp is now using the Sales Analysis and Financial Reporting BI solutions integrated with the respective core MAC-PAC XE operational applications.

"I now have fresh sales data at my fingertips every morning," states Tom Seymour, Gorman-Rupp Director of Sales and Marketing. "The ability to analyze this information in a variety of formats gives us insight to trends at a moments notice."

Judy Sovine, Gorman-Rupp Treasurer, is equally happy with the financial solution: "With the Vizion application, we can produce our reports in a fraction of the time it took us before. We now have more information - and more time - for the type of analysis we've wanted to do. We also anticipate doing consolidations in the near future."

With the success of the sales analysis and financial reporting solutions, Gorman-Rupp is now starting implementation of the Vizion Profitability Analysis solution. Development of a new Vizion-based solution focused on manufacturing metrics and measures is planned as well.

Vizion BI solutions are built specifically for MAC-PAC XE and tailored to individual company needs. Utilizing data already held in MAC-PAC XE , Vizion BI applications help decision makers more effectively track, understand, and manage performance within their organization. Vizion BI solutions enable companies to focus on key performance measures combined with actionable information to improve both strategic and tactical decision making.

Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE combine tools and expertise from both Vizion Solutions and TDCI to deliver tailored solutions quickly and affordably. Recognizing that every company is different, the Vizion/TDCI team develops applications tailored to each company's specific needs by following a proven, structured process. That process utilizes Vizion's BI templates, models and tools, along with MAC-PAC XE data extract, transformation, and load capabilities provided by the TDCI Integration Server. Pre-defined solution models combined with in-depth MAC-PAC XE data and business process knowledge dramatically reduce the time, effort, and cost of developing BI applications. Pre-defined solution models are available or planned for:

• Financial Reporting
• Sales Analysis
• Profitability Analysis
• Budgeting
• Inventory Analysis
• Forecasting Analysis
• POS (sales and inventory)
• Service Reporting

Much more than generic applications, Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE are built around comprehensive data marts loaded from the MAC-PAC XE database using intelligent data transformation. That means the information used for analysis and reporting carries forward the meaning and associated logic users are accustomed to in MAC-PAC XE .

Building on this foundation, Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE deliver the technology and tools to provide:

• A process for organizing data to optimize the retrieval of information.
• A business performance monitoring framework.
• A flexible, easy-to-use analysis and reporting environment.

Vizion BI applications for MAC-PAC XE offer a powerful, yet practical approach to implementing the kind of business intelligence solutions MAC-PAC XE users have wanted for a long time. To learn more, contact Shelley Horn at shorn@tdci.com or 614-781-2325, ext 119.

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