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Rapid Development
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One of Spotlight's benefits is its ability to rapidly build and protype applications. Business and IT users can quickly design, build, test, and deploy Spotlight applications in less than half the time taken by traditional methods.
Specifically, Spotlight's tools rapidly build applications optimized for the Teradata environment - all without coding.
The following diagram compares the time spent in different stages of application development. Additional time and resource savings are possible with Spotlight.
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Actionable BI
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Our products help business and IT users develop enterprise decision-automation applications in a timely, productive, and cost-effective manner using simple visual tools ... all without coding. That's right ... no coding.
We have combined a number of unique technologies into a powerful, flexible, agile, cost-effective development environment. These technologies include:
- decision tables for logic completeness
- verification, validation, and test methodologies
- automatic generation of optimized, tested application
- automatic generation of SQL code
- a robust run-time environment to execute the finished application
- an optimized run-time execution environment
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Business Activity Monitor
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Industry analyst firm Gartner defines Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) as the concept of providing real-time access to critical business performance indicators to improve the speed and effectiveness of business operations.
Spotlight's application suite supports the main ideas behind BAM including:
- Actions
- Rules
- Events / Decisions
- Process Monitoring
In BAM, relevant data in the data warehouse is analyzed to find factors relevant to specific business topics or processes. Once a condition is found, actions are taken. The key elements of BAM are shown below:
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