Complete overview with MARS BI Module

What is Business Intelligence?
Business intelligence (BI) refers to technologies, applications and practices used to help a business acquire a better understanding of its commercial context. Business intelligence may also refer to the collected information itself and often aims to support better business decision-making. Common functions of BI applications are e.g.:

• Reporting
• Analytics
• Business Performance Management
• Predictive Analytics
• KPIs - Key Performance Indicators

Complete overview of vital business processes
The MARS BI Module is a powerful tool which gives the user the possibility to generate completely customized reports of practically all vital business processes at a shipyard that are relevant for the particular user in question.

One significant benefit, relative to other solutions, is the fact that the BI module in MARS is an integral component, which means that the end-uses directly can extract data from various business areas, without first having to define integration points, which would be the case with any other 3rd party BI solution.

With the built-in export to MS Excel, it is very simple to illustrate data in graphical views and reports ready for management and distribution. The Business intelligence module can extract large amounts of data within only a few seconds. In addition to that, it is simple to generate pivot tables which are a very useful tool when analyzing and reporting large amounts of data. Furthermore, another useful functionality with the BI Module is the possibility of creating templates in MS Outlook, where the user can chose continuously to receive an e-mail with the customized report and thereby monitor how a given situation progresses.

For instance a production manager at a shipyard who wants to make an ad-hoc analysis of hours spent on a particular block for a certain hull number or a purchase manager who wants to know quarterly volume of purchase orders by individual suppliers. By using the ready-made templates available the MARS BI module can facilitate such ad-hoc queries.

More shipyards focus on Business Intelligence
An increasing number of existing MARS users have discovered the potential of the BI Module and enquired about it. Shipyards like Boustead Naval Shipyard in Malaysia, Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and VT Halter Marine in the US and BVT North in the UK have invested the BI Module, and already started to leverage on this investment.

”Our shipyard has recently implemented the complete MARS package - including the BI Module. With this module we now have a powerful tool that can help us in:

• Collecting critical knowledge from various data sources in MARS
• Making in-depth analyses and generate reports with only a few clicks
• Sharing knowledge and data across our organization

This will ultimately help us in making better decisions,” concludes Ken McCrae, Planning Manager at BVT North.