ShowCase Suite from SPSS

What's New in ShowCase Suite 8.0

Your investment in the ShowCase Suite becomes even more valuable with the enhancements available in ShowCase Suite 8.0.

Its new operational reporting platform enables you to deploy and manage your reporting assets enterprise wide. You’ll also benefit from features that align with current versions of the leading products and platforms you use every day. And, through shared technology with SPSS’ family of predictive analytic solutions, ShowCase 8.0 positions you to add predictive analytics to your reporting solution.

These enhancements strengthen your ability to create, implement, and manage multiple analytic applications that provide greater insight into all your business operations.

Integrate business intelligence into your operational processes

ShowCase Suite 8.0 provides an enterprise-class operational reporting platform to help you deploy BI across your organization. In this release, the ShowCase Enterprise Reporting product has been replaced with the SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services product. With this release you gain:

Flexible and efficient management of all your reports, queries, and related information within a single, centralized, and secure repository based on industry standards
Improved control over content and the actions that can be performed against it
Powerful, flexible automation enablers for integrating reporting into other business processes

Empower end users

Using ShowCase 8.0, end users will be able to:

Navigate easily through the repository folder structure, using Microsoft® Internet Explorer® and Mozilla® Firefox®
View report content online and refresh it on demand
Augment ShowCase’s rich, built-in metadata with custom metadata
Search on any metadata to locate content faster
Subscribe to the content they need and specify when they will be alerted to content changes

Streamline administration

Your administrators will gain efficiency through new capabilities that enable them to:

Define servers, data sources, and credentials once and reuse these definitions many times
Customize roles and actions for granular definition and control of user permissions
Drag-and-drop to publish new content
Use versioning and version labels to simplify repository content management
Create flexible, customized notifications to let decision makers know when new content is available or when jobs or job steps succeed or fail

Automate processes

ShowCase 8.0 makes it easy to integrate reporting into your organization’s business processes:

Combine multiple job steps into a single process, using the platform’s powerful automation features
Create jobs quickly and easily without scripting or programming
Integrate ShowCase Warehouse Builder™ jobs into multi-step jobs
Schedule Excel® spreadsheets for automatic refresh
Specify multiple schedules for a single job
Employ custom automation utilizing i5/OS Command Language or Python® scripting

Keep pace with your evolving technologies

Fully leverage the latest versions of applications you use regularly—including i5/OS, SQL 2003 standards, and the latest Microsoft offerings—and continue to use the data stored in these applications to drive improved business performance. New in version 8.0:

ShowCase Query™ support for SQL 2003 functionality in i5/OS takes greater advantage of its functionality

More powerful data selection and manipulation capabilities through additional scalar functions
Use full selects within expressions for advanced data selection support
Use selects as table references for more flexibility when defining search conditions and customized sorting using CASE enhancements

Integration with Microsoft Vista® and Excel 2007 offers more flexibility in platform and product choices
Support for Supplemental Groups in i5/OS simplifies administrative tasks associated with controlling user access to data
Access to data residing within Independent Auxiliary Storage Pools (iASPs) helps you address your business needs

Enable the Predictive Enterprise

When you upgrade to ShowCase 8.0, you get an industry-leading BI solution for the IBM System i that enables you to go beyond reporting and analyzing.

The integration of ShowCase Suite with SPSS Predictive Enterprise Services™—the common operational foundation on which the SPSS family of reporting and analytic solutions is based—enables data-driven organizations to move to the next level of intelligence. ShowCase 8.0 combines the power of an enterprise-class operational reporting platform with the ability to layer and deploy predictive applications such as Clementine® for data mining onto your System i platform—so you can anticipate trends and develop strategies for making more intelligent business decisions.

Request an upgrade through the Technical Support section of our Web site (login required). Or, to learn more about how you can benefit from the ShowCase Suite, contact your SPSS representative or the SPSS office in your area.

Read more about system requirements for the ShowCase Suite.