Enterprise Performance Manager
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is the term covering the top to bottom analysis of an organisation. This close scrutiny reveals what is working and what is not, it shows up the bottlenecks, allows the optimisation of tasks and the alignment of everything with the overall strategic goals. The aim, to improve the performance across the entire organisation. To a degree implementation is common sense, i.e. taking EPM on board means that the Sales Manager ensures his team is trying to sell what the Production Manager is making and not something he is not, however, before you can apply that common sense you have to uncover what is really going on. The purpose of this part of the BusinessObjects package is therefore to make sure you can see what was previously hidden, easily.
Dashboard Manager
The aim of the Dashboard Manager is to ensure that everyone in the organisation is presented with relevant metrics, alerts and monitoring tools in a consistent fashion. This deployment of Dashboards and Scorecards ensures that everyone in an organisation who needs to understand your business activities gets the information that they need to keep them on the right track. The level of detail can also be set using the Dashboard Manager, so that you can zoom in from a high level to a detailed level with a few clicks of a mouse, drilling right down to an underlying report if required.
Monitoring Business Performance is far easier with a dashboard, as you can easily compare your success at say, reducing customer churn against the businesses objectives. This level of information helps everyone make decisions faster and more accurately.
Understanding Business Drivers is far easier with Dashboard Manager. To help it comes with a catalogue of analytic templates which have been designed to help your organisation address your performance management needs. Various sorts of data visualisation templates are provided, so you can be sure to be able to display meaningful information on your organisation's performance.
Personalised Dashboards cover the need for the users who want to see specific sets of data and don't want their interface cluttered by information they are not interested in. However, constructing such dashboards on an individual basis could be a very time consuming affair, that is, it would be but for the drag and drop functionality supplied by Dashboard Manager, which allows organisations the ability to create and deploy personalised dashboards rapidly across their organisation.
Budgeting and Financial Planning
This part of the BusinessObejcts Platform is designed to provide a view on performance against your long term budgets, goals, plans, payroll plans and forecasts. To make it all easier to understand and deploy as it uses our embedded Excel-defined and Web-deployed reporting standards, therefore you have the ease of use associated with Excel and the ability to drill down as you would expect in an enterprise system and end users can move into action faster.
BusinessObjects XI Platform thus covers many needs that a modern business has today, but as ever careful planning and implementation is required. Therefore if your organisation is considering implementing a Business Intelligence Solution using Business Objects, Contemporary with our years of experience are sure to be able to assist.
Frequently Asked Questions
Business Intelligence- what is it and what does it offer my organisation?
Q: What is business intelligence?
A: Business intelligence is really about taking all of the information assets from the business, whether it is held in databases or documents, and really, getting the relevant information in the right format out to the organisation that allows them to make better business decisions and drive business efficiency.
Why should I work with a business intelligence partner?
Q: What benefits would an organisation get from working with a business intelligence partner?
A: From our experience there are a number of benefits from working with a specialist in this area. Really getting someone who has done this and worked in this area before is invaluable. Some of the areas that need to be addressed such as data integrations, reporting performance management are things that can only be achieved through people that have done that process many times with many organisations. Many of the organisations that have supplied business intelligence solutions will have adopted processes and methodologies that will support this as an implementation in the project, so it’s not about re-inventing the wheel? It is about having been there before. |
