Frequently Asked Questions

The business benefits of using eyeTprofit are numerous. Customers have used eyeTprofit to monitor sales, revenues, costs, expenses, utilization levels, operational efficiencies, profitability, cash flows, performance, inventory levels, budget variances, sales target achievements, etc. Some customers have also used eyeTprofit for performing what-if scenarios, projections etc. Some of the business benefits highlighted by our customers are:
- Dynamically create new reports when needed
- Little manual dependency
- Consistent & Accurate
- Enables information analysis
- Saves lot of time & effort
- Retain existing systems
- Streamline process
- Improve utilization
- Improve Operating efficiencies
- High Morale
- Higher Profit

eyeTprofit is beyond a mere report-generator. eyeTprofit helps the user analyze information, or get alerted on specific events or on a scheduled basis, with data coming from more than one data sources. This would also greatly reduce the laborious, mundane and error-prone task of manually generating each report. eyeTprofit helps in proactively monitoring information for taking crucial business decisions, rather than performing post- mortem analysis on a reactive basis.

Crystal reports & SSRS are report authoring tools which are typically used by software developers for creating and deploying custom reports.
eyeTprofit is a more comprehensive solution for information analysis and delivery. Report authoring is a subset of the solutions provided by eyeTprofit.
Standard Reporting Tools View what happened in the past Static information of data, No user interaction Tightly coupled with the system Single application/system Limitation on what-if analysis, trend-analysis High technical skills required for report customizationOur Solution Not just past, analyze what will likely happen Dynamic views-drag-n-drop, drill-through, etc Loosely-coupled Data from multiple sources Designed to help business with forecast analysis, trend-analysis Targeted at business users to do self-service

Cindrel can help you in creating custom reports through eyeTprofit. Availability of skilled resources is not a pre-requisite for viewing or modifying reports. When there are complex scenarios, Cindrel's team of partners can help you with the implementation and support.

Yes, we have proven solutions working in numerous customer locations with challenges similar to the above. eyeTprofit would be able to not only generate reports based on these but also identify exceptions in data capture and thereby provide a facility to streamline data capture as well. Our implementation team (or partners) would provide you ample support in helping you streamline your data capture or provide solutions for fixing the information gaps, if need be.

How secure is eyeTprofit? - eyeTprofit has multiple layers of security. Some important features are highlighted below:
RBAC: eyeTprofit uses an Role based Access Control (RBAC) approach to ensuring the authorized user alone has relevant access to eyeTprofit screens.
Credentials Security: eyeTprofit stores user credentials in a one-way hash format preventing possibilities of decrypting or deciphering user credentials.
Data Source level access rights are available at a user level such that users can create new reports only based on data sources that they have access to.
Report level access is also provided to users. Users can access only those reports that they are authorized to access.
Export rights are available to users to control users from exporting the report to excel sheets, PDF or other custom templates. Only authorized users can export reports.

Generally, it is not advisable expose the production data to reporting solutions as the latter may hamper the performance of the former based on usage. It is recommended that reporting solutions near-real time. With periodic sync-ups between production and reporting system, reports can be close to real-time.

eyeTprofit product is agnostic to industry verticals. eyeTprofit can be made to work in different verticals including (and not confined to):
- Construction & Real Estate
- Food & Beverage - Manufacturing and trading
- Chemicals - Manufacturing & trading
- Textiles - Manufacturing & trading
- Retail - White goods distributors, dealers, chain stores, etc
- Medical equipments - manufacturing & trading
- Services industry
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- Non-Profitable Organizations
- Research & Development Organizations
- Automobile
- Logistics
- IT Services
- Printing

eyeTprofit has several types of reports. For the purpose of analyzing consolidated information, information should first be aggregated through data import and processing steps and relevant information views should be created. Based on these, Drill down reports, Pivot analysis and 360 degree reports can be created. These reports provide a comprehensive facility to the user to analyze consolidated information.

Yes, eyeTprofit can be used to send such bulk letters using it's 'Bulk Mail' feature.

Yes, eyeTprofit can be used to send SMS text notifications to user mobiles. This can be achieved in two ways - either by linking to a service provider like SMSCountry.com or by sending messages through a SMS-sending device compatible with eyeTprofit.

The business benefits of using eyeTprofit are numerous. Customers have used eyeTprofit to monitor sales, revenues, costs, expenses, utilization levels, operational efficiencies, profitability, cash flows, performance, inventory levels, budget variances, sales target achievements, etc. Some customers have also used eyeTprofit for performing what-if scenarios, projections etc. Some of the business benefits highlighted by our customers are:
- Dynamically create new reports when needed
- Little manual dependency
- Consistent & Accurate
- Enables information analysis
- Saves lot of time & effort
- Retain existing systems
- Streamline process
- Improve utilization
- Improve Operating efficiencies
- High Morale
- Higher Profit

eyeTprofit is beyond a mere report-generator. eyeTprofit helps the user analyze information, or get alerted on specific events or on a scheduled basis, with data coming from more than one data sources. This would also greatly reduce the laborious, mundane and error-prone task of manually generating each report. eyeTprofit helps in proactively monitoring information for taking crucial business decisions, rather than performing post- mortem analysis on a reactive basis.

Yes. eyeTprofit supports access of information / reports over the internet. Customers can host eyeTprofit servers and expose reports as web services. eyeTprofit viewers can render reports that are exposed through a web server.

eyeTprofit does not require an OLAP database. eyeTprofit works with on OLTP database.

eyeTprofit data import is very fast. However, it depends on the volume of data. Typically, most customers are able to import their year's data in less than a minute.