Antarctica's mission is to help organizations get more out of their investment in Business Intelligence (BI).

Based on Gartner research, only 30% of companies that have deployed BI consider their deployments "very successful" - the vast majority are labeled "somewhat successful."  One reason for this is low levels of user adoption - less than one-third of the potential users of BI tools are using them.  Actual usage of BI tools is almost always much less than expected, due largely to the difficulty in learning and using BI tools. According to Gartner, "Business users must get the data, reports and analysis they need for their jobs from multiple sources and in multiple forms. However, the BI initiatives of most enterprises lack the maturity and depth of deployment needed to meet business demands." 

Antarctica can help to unlock the full potential  return on a BI investment by providing visual reporting and guided analysis for business users. Antarctica's Visual Net software is geared toward business users with needs not met within their existing BI tools. Visual Net provides a very intuitive, interactive and highly visual interface that lets users see problems, both summary and details, in a very understandable way. Users can quickly comprehend and navigate vast amounts of data using Visual Net's unique interface, such that a business user:

1. Sees a problem
2. Clicks on an intuitive, visual interface
3. Explores and investigates to understand why
4. Takes action.

Antarctica may be able to help your organization, if:

• Key users/user groups have not adopted your BI tools
• You are in spreadsheet purgatory
• Business users are spending more time on analysis than action
• Critical issues are not made readily apparent without having to sift through reams of reports and data
• Business users need to rely on IT or analysts to get information
• Business users don't know what questions to ask of the data
• It is difficult to investigate issues to understand why
• Business users are drawing incorrect conclusions and missing opportunities
• You wish to deploy applications and share information with external parties such as customers, suppliers and partners

By providing a very compelling user experience that requires little/no training and no reliance on IT to write reports/queries for them, business users can speed up decision-making by spending less time involved in analysis and more time taking action. 

Antarctica was founded in 1999 by Open Text (NASDAQ:OTEX) founder and XML co-creator Tim Bray.