MIS UK

MIS UK, part MIS AG founded in 1988, is a leading European provider of business intelligence solutions.  It has over 26,000 users in more than 1,300 companies worldwide.

MIS AG offers customised solutions for planning, standard and ad hoc reporting, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and analysis.  These solutions can be integrated into existing IT investments, offering scalability from departments to enterprise levels.

The company provides a business intelligence platform and specialised know-how to build individual BI solutions.  Based on this platform, users can utilise pre-built planning and controlling applications for enterprise planning, risk management, consolidation and subsidiary management.

Technology

MIS DecisionWare provides the intelligence behind all MIS AG’s solutions, offering tools to build advanced analytical applications based on underlying multi-dimensional OLAP technology.

It provides a single enterprise-wide business intelligence platform based on MIS Application Server – Which integrates information stored in existing source systems and data warehouses (eg, SAP BW) across organisation.  MIS Excel Integration, MIS onVision and MIS DeltaMiner front ends sit on top of this technology framework.  MIS AG claims this brings benefits throughout the organisation:

• Business users gain control of the systems that support them in day-to-day decision making.
• IT supports the needs of business users while securing data integrity.
• Organisations achieve gains in knowledge, productivity and efficiency.

Applications

Together with the underlying technology of MIS DecisionWare, MIS AG offers a number of integratable solutions:

• MIS Enterprise Planning allows companies to centrally govern all financial processes and connect them in a systematic manner.  It combines pre-defined modules and planning processes with the ability to integrate unique requirements.  It provides integrated balance sheet, profit and loss and cash flow planning, along with planning, HR and loan planning, providing a technological framework to integrate any individual planning requirements as well as distributed subsidiaries.

• MIS Risk Management offers business intelligence on a company’s risk situation and enables managers to steer their operations and strategy accordingly.  Companies can optimise their risk-management instruments and effectively evaluate measures to reduce the costs of capital.

MIS Risk Management also interacts with Enterprise Planning, Balanced Scorecard and other MIS AG solutions to help companies drive their management activities to make more effective decisions and create long-term value.  MIS Risk Management enables users to fulfil the transparency requirements of Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley and UK corporate governance regulations.

• MIS Zeus Consolidation helps streamline the processes of consolidation and management reporting.  It supports major international accounting standards (IAS, US GAAP) as well as European standards (UK GAAP or HGB).

• MIS Balanced Scorecard enables organisations to implement their corporate strategy by assigning concrete measures and responsibilities to company objectives.  It outlines the conversion progress through an integrated management information system.

Since October 2003, MIS AG has been a wholly owned business intelligence division of Systems Union Group.

It has Strategic partnerships with Microsoft and Unisys, and together with software, offers associated consulting and training services to help users achieve return on investment on both new and existing technologies.