This presentation illustrates some of the most often used applications of WriteBackPlugin

1. Budgeting and forecasting
WriteBackPlugin Applications
Examples of FMS WriteBackPlugin for MicroStrategy
applications

2. WriteBackPlugin Applications
• WriteBackPlugin allows you to convert MicroStrategy Web grid reports into
data input forms – therefore MicroStrategy now works not only as a BI tool
but also as data management tool
• The use of WriteBackPlugin is limitless – you can build different solutions
that require data collection from users tailored for your company’s business
process and data management needs
• WriteBackPlugin allows to develop forms for closed-loop workflow –
validation, approval, attachment handling and others
• The following presentation touches on some of the most often used cases
where WriteBackPlugin can benefit your MicroStrategy experience

3. Contents
1. Budgeting and Forecasting
2. Costing models
3. Timesheets
4. Data versioning and status control
5. Data Quality
6. ETL process management
7. Document management

4. Budgeting and Forecasting
Deploy Budgeting solution
within your MicroStrategy
environment:
• Create flexible budget
input forms
•Implement what-if
analysis

5. Budgeting and Forecasting
• Maintain several versions and/or scenarios
• Manage budget workflows and approvals

6. Budgeting and Forecasting
Keep change
history (data,
users, timestamps)

7. Costing models
Build costing models (for example ABC costing) to calculate cost of
products, customers and services:
• Allocate costs to products
• Establish economic break-even points
• Highlight opportunities for improvement
• Identify profits-makers and losers
• Compare investment alternatives

8. Timesheets
Build solutions for
timesheet management:
• Personalized timesheets
for people who must
report time
• Analyze reported and
planned hours
• Report hours to
projects, activities or
equipment

9. Timesheets

10. Data Quality
Enhance your MicroStrategy
environment with Data
Quality functionality:
• Add missing data to the data
warehouse from report form;
• Prepare and distribute better
quality reports
• Validate user data input to
ensure data quality
• Implement complex data
transformation algorithms

11. ETL process management
Allow your business users and analysts to control ETL processes:
• Allow to control and launch ETL process from the MicroStrategy
user interface
• Build complex data logic and get the necessary data right when its
needed

12. Document Management
Enhance your MicroStrategy
environment with Document
Management functionality:
• Save documents in
MicroStrategy Web
• Share documents with
other MicroStrategy users
• Store documents in
centralized location