TotalSoft integrates Tableau Software technology into Charisma Analyzer business intelligence system

Bucharest, 18nd of July 2011

TotalSoft, one of the most important software developers in Romania, member of Global Finance, announces concluding a strategic partnership with the worldwide leader in data viewing, Tableau Software. Based on this partnership, TotalSoft will use Tableau Software technology as the platform for Charisma Analyzer business intelligence system, further extending its usage also to the reporting modules of Charisma ERP, Charisma Medical Software and Charisma HCM solutions.

Tableau Software was appreciated within the Gartner study in February 2010 as the BI solution having the highest customer satisfaction degree, the highest usage degree at company level, but also the highest quality rating.

"Beyond the competitive advantages the worldwide most advanced business intelligence platform provides, the integration of Tableau Software technology into Charisma marks a major change of strategy. We talk about the first OEM "third-party" code integration in the company' history of over 16 years. Besides we offer to our customers all the experience of the worldwide leader in advanced data analyses, we will be able to focus our resources on developing our core competences in ERP area with an important added value for us", says Daniel Ionescu, Strategy & Marketing Director.

The studies conducted among the companies using Business Intelligence tools based on Tableau Software technology have shown a decrease of a report generation time of 87,5%, an increase of the minimum number of standardized reports with over 400% and a decrease of the report management time from several days to a few hours per month. All these are supplemented by eliminating the training costs and the significant improvement of the work throughput recorded by the users.

Once switching Charisma Analyzer to Tableau Software platform, the time of application implementation and tailoring to the customers' requirements will be significantly decreased. The advantages the new technology mean, from a functional perspective, ensuring the highest standard of data viewing and analyzing in the industry, but also turning the system into an easy and user-friendly tool, designed for the less IT-familiar users.

Tableau Software technology is available in 90 countries, has over 50 000 of users in 14 industry verticals, and covers various business fields, from retail, banks, insurance to companies in medical, media and construction fields. The international companies benefiting from the advantages of Tableau Software technology include: Citigroup, The World Bank, Heineken, Procter & Gamble, The Coca Cola Company, Sanofi Aventis, New York Times, Toyota, General Motors, General Electric or Pepsi Bottling Group.