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Functions, adapters and integrations

Kippy was born on the Cloud! And if you're wondering what that really means then you're in for a treat.

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Traditionally, applications and systems would collect your data and make it very difficult to interact with it or interface to it. 

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The modern approach is to secure your data, and allow fully flexibility to the things you trust interact with it, safely and easily. 

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As well as providing web apis for ultimate flexibility and microapps for tailored journeys, kippy also provides you with reusable components to integrate to your data and a platform to create and extend those components. 

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Three such types of components are functions, adapters and integrations:

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Functions

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A function allows you to manipulate your data in kippy in a data driven way. So a user can state, that the value of KPI A equals the value of KPI B plus the value of KPI C.

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These formulas are entered by the user in the KPI definition in kippy - just like an Excel formula.

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A wide range of functions are supported, including Add, Subtract, Divide, Multiply, Ratio, Percentage, Average, etc. 

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Also, the copy function can be used to make the Actual the same as the Actual for another KPI from the same or different Team. 

 

For example, setting the formula on a specific KPI in the CEO team to :
 

=cloud.kippy.copy("Sales","Items Sold")

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will copy the Actual of the ‘items sold’ KPI from the Sales team and set it to that specific KPI in the CEO team.

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We can add more functions. And YOU can add more functions! And macros! Just like Excel!

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See demo here.

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Adapters

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An adapter is like a formula except that it allows you to source your actual from another system. So a user setting up a KPI can state that the data source for:

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- a 'Items sold' KPI comes from your sales system

- a 'No. of defects' comes from a production build system

- a 'Project burndown' come from a PMO system

- etc. 

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These adapters can be set up to pull, push and poll. And as well as our existing adapters ... yes, YOU can add more!

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These links provide more details of the proof of concepts to integrated with Oracle JD Edwards and Microsoft Dynamics 365. See here for a video of the PoC output.

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Integrations

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Kippy already has many in built deep integrations. For example to Slack (for collaboration), Google (for sign in) and Zapier (for virtually everything!)

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But we also provide custom integrations to your existing/internal systems - quickly and robustly joining up your business processes - without over reliance on your internal IT capability. 

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So whether that's:

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- sourcing data from your PMO tooling

- pushing notifications to your task management system

- mixing performance data from your ERP

- feeding your BI and dashboards

- live feeds from your production systems,

- etc.

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... we've got you covered!

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For a demo of kippy integrated with an ERP system (Wrike) using OAuth2 and custom data-driven configuration, see here.

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For a POC to integrate with Microsoft Power BI, see here

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I hope this helps - any questions - please contact us via the Live Chat or at support@kippy.me

 

Thanks,

 

Nauman

CEO and Founder

kippy - performance management ... made simple

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