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Financial Management Analyzer

The Issue - Accurate and Timely Financial Performance Measurement

The warehouse for financial information in most organizations today is their business system database(s) such as ERP, CRM, SCM, Financial Management or other packages that support daily operations. Despite a database’s core competency, being able to store large volumes of data in an organized manner, it is not optimized for easy access. Therefore the data becomes virtually invisible to the user who requires access to it. As a result, at month end, many business entities will sift, siphon, and manually re-enter the financial data into spreadsheets to measure financial performance. This is a time-consuming, error prone process without the benefit of analysis capabilities. In addition, financial users may be splintered across the organization in multiple entities or divisions each with different information requirements. Standard reports provided with the financial software package are generally lacking and unable to generate effective and immediate analysis. Finding data may require making requests of IT to define, create, and execute desired reports which is untenable. Finally, when key users cannot independently source data, they will apply pressure on IT to support their ever-changing information needs, regardless of whether IT has the resources or tools to respond.

The Solution – Financial Management Analyzer

Visibility’s Financial Management Analyzer (data mart) opens up the ability to consolidate information from multiple data sources, including operational databases and even Excel. Coupled with the data marts inherent functionality that allows the viewing of financial measurements from a very high level, it offers the ability to easily dig down into transaction level detail, while dramatically reducing the time and effort required to produce monthly-consolidated financial statements. Month-end close cycles can be reduced from days to hours and the data accuracy increases exponentially.

LEVERAGING FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE:

Visibility’s Financial Management Analyzer empowers business users and IT professionals to look at a pool of common variables defined across their financial applications including:

• General Ledger

• Accounts Receivable

• Accounts Payable

• Revenue Recognition

• Cash Management

Users can generate drill down reports and graphs to identify trends that cannot be seen through traditional static reporting. Additionally, the Financial Management Analyzer allows users to define their own queries or metrics and share them over the web for review by other users. By providing users with the ability to analyze financial performance in real-time using metrics tailored to their unique environments, the Financial Management Analyzer provides real-time business intelligence. The result is an unprecedented level of access to intelligent decision making data so financial managers can best serve the business.

The Issue - Accurate and Timely Inventory Performance Measurement

Effectively managing inventory and keeping and driving costs down are crucial to gaining a competitive advantage. When materials managers gain access to the right information on a timely basis, they have the opportunity to find new insights about usage, costs, customers, obsolescence and materials operations and can take action to improve business performance. The integrated nature of most Inventory applications and associated databases with ERP and other business applications, typically generates high volumes of important data. Retrieval and presentation of this data has historically been in the form of reports. Although they contain a lot of information, the structure does not lend itself to analysis, interpretation, and action.

The Solution - Inventory Analyzer

 Visibility’s Inventory Analyzer helps you analyze what’s driving your business with information presented in a way that makes sense including; bar charts, line graphs, pie charts, spreadsheets and dashboards. It is organized to enable you to quickly yet comprehensively explore your information by viewing it with and from multiple dimensions. Navigation is easy and the ability to slice the data into additional views and increasing detail is all a part of the solution. Users can readily generate drill -down reports and graphs, to identify trends that cannot usually be seen through standard reporting solutions that may have come with your Inventory application. Additionally, the Inventory Analyzer allows users to define their own queries or metrics and share it over the web for review by other users. By providing users with the ability to analyze inventory performance in real-time using metrics tailored to their unique environments, the Inventory Analyzer provides real-time business intelligence. The result is an unprecedented level of access to critical data so inventory and materials managers can best serve the business.

LEVERAGING INVENTORY INTELLIGENCE:

Visibility’s Inventory Analyzer empowers business users, materials managers and IT professionals to analyze inventory information contained in existing business applications and other data sources; allowing for comprehensive inventory insight into:

• Inventory Turns

• Margins by category

• Returns

• Material Movements

• Trends

• Contribution

The Inventory Analyzer provides visibility into key performance indicators, enabling you to:

• Analyze stock turn over and reduce obsolescence

• Perform Supplier Score Carding

• Improve and target your buying power

• Measure product and customer on-time and shipment performance

• Improve impact on customers

• Facilitate forecasting

• Meet the demands of customers

• Trend spend over time

The Issue -

Business is all about selling goods and services. When managers gain access to the right information on a timely basis, they have the opportunity to fi nd new insights about customers, products and business operations and can take the appropriate actions to improve business performance. The integrated nature of VISIBILITY and its underlying database enable the storage of volumes of data from daily operations. Retrieval and presentation of this data has historically been in the form of reports. Although the reports contain a lot of information, the structure does not lend itself well to analysis, interpretation, and action.

The Solution – Inventory Analysis Data Mart

The Inventory Analysis Data Mart helps you analyze what’s driving your business with information presented the way managers view their organization – cross tabs, pie charts, line graphs or bar charts. The cubes let you explore multidimensional information by navigating through increasing levels of detail, then simply slice and dice to view different dimensions of the selected data. If you wish to see the actual transactions that created the cube, then “drill thru” to Impromptu for an automatic parameterized report Designed specifically for manufacturers, this solution offers a cost-effective way to extend the functionality of the core business system in the reporting and analysis capabilities it offers.

The Issue -

Business is all about selling goods and services. When managers gain access to the right information on a timely basis, they have the opportunity to fi nd new insights about customers, products and business operations and can take the appropriate actions to improve business performance. The integrated nature of VISIBILITY and its underlying database enable the storage of volumes of data from daily operations. Retrieval and presentation of this data has historically been in the form of reports. Although the reports contain a lot of information, the structure does not lend itself well to analysis, interpretation, and action.

The Solution – Inventory Analysis Data Mart

The Inventory Analysis Data Mart helps you analyze what’s driving your business with information presented the way managers view their organization – cross tabs, pie charts, line graphs or bar charts. The cubes let you explore multidimensional information by navigating through increasing levels of detail, then simply slice and dice to view different dimensions of the selected data. If you wish to see the actual transactions that created the cube, then “drill thru” to Impromptu for an automatic parameterized report Designed specifically for manufacturers, this solution offers a cost-effective way to extend the functionality of the core business system in the reporting and analysis capabilities it offers.

LEVERAGING INVENTORY INTELLIGENCE:

Visibility’s Purchasing Analyzer empowers business users and IT professionals to analyze purchasing information contained in existing business applications and other data sources; allowing for:

The Issue -

Monitoring sales performance and proactively managing customer relationships Business is all about selling goods and services. When managers gain access to the right information on a timely basis, they have the opportunity to fi nd new insights about customers, products and business operations and can take the appropriate actions to improve business performance. The integrated nature of Visibility’s Sales Analyzer and its underlying database enable the storage of volumes of data from daily operations. Retrieval and presentation of this data has historically been in the form of reports. Although reports contain a lot of information, the structure does not lend itself well to analysis, interpretation, and action.

The Solution – Sales Analyzer

The Visibility Sales Analyzer delivers comprehensive sales analysis capabilities with minimal implementation time and effort. Proven reporting functions allow users to analyze key indicators such as order details by territory, division, or sales representative. Increasing the efficiency of your sales force, improving sales-related decision-making, enhancing the ability to react to late customer payments, and boosting the overall health of your business with more profitable sales and stronger customer relationships is simplified through the Sales Analyzer. Designed specifically for sales analysis, this solution offers a cost-effective way to extend the functionality of the core business system in the reporting and analysis capabilities it offers.

LEVERAGING SALES INTELLIGENCE:

Visibility’s Sales Analyzer empowers business users and IT professionals to analyze sales data contained in existing business applications and other data sources; allowing for: