This presentation briefly explains the features, benefits, and applications of WriteBackPlugin

1. Budgeting and forecasting
WriteBackPlugin for MicroStrategy
Tool for faster and cheaper development of customized
writeback solutions for Microstrategy Web and Office

2. Contents
1. What is WriteBackPlugin?
2. Benefits of WriteBackPlugin
3. Examples of applications of WriteBackPlugin
4. Technical Information
5. Contacts and Demo

3. What is WriteBack Plugin?
• WriteBackPlugin is a plugin for Microstrategy Web and an Add-
on for Microstrategy Office
• WriteBackPlugin allows you to convert MicroStrategy Web grid
reports into data input forms with few mouse clicks without
need to do any manual coding
• WriteBackPlugin supports standard HTML input controls (text
box, drop-down list, check box, radio button) which could be
configured for desired data management functionality.

4. What is WriteBack Plugin?
• The use of WriteBackPlugin is limitless – you can build different
data management solutions tailored for particular company’s
business process and data management needs
• WriteBackPlugin allows to develop forms for closed-loop
workflow – validation, approval, attachment handling and others
that require data collection from users

5. Benefits of WriteBack Plugin
The main benefits of WriteBackPlugin include:
• Decreased development time and cost of custom solution
development for MicroStrategy Web and Office
• Expands existing functionality of MicroStrategy software as BI
tool to cover different needs of data collection or business
process support.
• Wide array of possible control options, like textbox, listbox,
checkbox, radio button, and attachments

6. Benefits of WriteBack Plugin
• Centralized Web – based FMS WriteBack
metadata configuration interface that
allows to easily configure writeback
capabilities and custom SQL definition
• Multi language support and user
interfaces
• Messages can be localized using
MicroStrategy Web standard localization
techniques

7. Writeback for Web
• Leverage MicroStrategy Web with
Writeback functionality
• Different HTML controls to satisfy
most challenging requirements
• Available on different Web
browsers including Safari on iPad

8. Writeback for Office
• Leverage MicroStrategy Office
with Writeback functionality
• Use power of MS Excel for the
complex Writeback applications
• Increase user adoption through
familiar interface and features

9. Budgeting and forecasting
Examples of WriteBackPlugin
applications

10. Example: Budgeting solution
Deploy Budgeting solution
within your MicroStrategy
environment:
• Create flexible budget
input forms
• Maintain several versions
and/or scenarios
• Implement what-if
analysis
• Manage budget
workflows and approvals
• Keep change history
(data, users, timestamps)

11. Example: Data Quality solution
Enhance your MicroStrategy
environment with Data
Quality functionality:
• Add missing data to the
data warehouse
• Validate user data input to
ensure data quality
• Implement complex data
transformation algorithms

12. Example: 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

13. Writeback Administration
• Configure Writeback
with few clicks
• No custom
development needed
• Flexible controls and
data validation

14. Process description
Administrator Users
Configures Sets tables and Enter data into radiobuttons,
WriteBack controls fields, where writeback form checkboxes, and
and properties data is stored controls, like attachments
textboxes,
WriteBack Editor MicroStrategy Web MicroStrategy Office

15. Technical information
• Windows
Platforms • Linux
• Unix
• MS SQL Server 2005/2008
• Oracle Database 10g/11g
Databases • IBM DB2
• Teradata V13, MySQL, PostgreSQL
• Writeback for Web: MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox,
Safari (also on iPad)
Clients • WriteBack Editor: MS Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox
• WriteBack Excel Add-on: MicroStrategy Office 9.0.x, 9.2.x and
MS Excel 2007
• Special installer to provide seamless installation
Installation • Detailed configuration guide and demo project example
Other
• Available upon request
configurations

16. Contacts
Kaspars Vītols
FMS WriteBackPlugin Sales Manager
Kaspars.Vitols@writebackplugin.com
+371 26460462
www.writebackplugin.com
Online demo: http://mstr-demo.fms.lv/asp
(username: demo, password : demo)
Free version available on: www.writebackplugin.com