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Power your business intelligence with a Metric Layer

Business intelligence tools are a rapidly growing technology being marketed to today’s modern executives. Designed to facilitate last-mile analysis of underlying data sets, these tools are more like shortcuts to Excel mastery.

Even the biggest names in BI, such as Tableau and Power BI, cannot provide intelligence. Rather, they allow users to quickly produce charts, graphics, and aggregations of their own data with sleek and easy-to-use interfaces.

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Data Quality: The Elephant in the Room

Without quality input data to produce error-free reporting, even the best business intelligence tools can’t solve the most prominent flaws which existed in Excel. They just paint a prettier picture.

And without data that you can trust, critical context is missing from the story you and your teams are trying to tell. Suppose financial and operational metrics aren’t standardized and understood by everyone touching and relying on that information.

In that case, your team is left to do a lot of heavy lifting to draw true meaning.

How Overlay Unifies Your Data

Overlay's Metric Layer standardizes business logic before data enters your BI tools, giving context to the outputs. It’s not meant to replace your business intelligence but to enrich its capabilities. So now, rather than spending valuable time getting to the right answer, you get real-time reporting and analysis to drive critical decision-making.

Metric Layer Meets Your BI Apps

OFML (Overlay Financial Metric Layer) takes data from disparate ERPs and business applications and standardizes the data into a unified set of metrics and reporting tables in the cloud. This common financial schema focuses your time and efforts on business outcomes instead of on wrangling and interpreting data.

The metric layer enables critical elements of financial reporting:

Create and then extend the single source of truth to any downstream tool end-users regularly access.
Leverage the power of real-time financial observability. Allow teams to access trusted data from across the organization at the granularity required to drive performance improvement.

How the metric layer transforms your ERP data

Here are a few of the most common BI tools Overlay supercharges for clients:

Excel

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Oracle BI

Sisense

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Overlay powers ‍your business intelligence tools