Enterprise Planning eliminates spreadsheet "mania" as it is a
managed, collaborative process that engages a broader
constituency to gather more detailed input from a wider variety
of contributors. An unprecedented level of analysis, insight and
structure is gained by the organization. The organization is
then enabled to execute the game plan, gain everyone's
commitment to performance goals, integrate disparate processes
and realign and refocus as conditions change. With its ability
to combine target setting, planning, measurement, analysis and
forecasting, Enterprise Planning holds the key to dramatically
improve the operation of any organization.
All enterprises, whether public or private,
destined to thrive in the coming millennium will, of necessity,
be organizations that are constantly learning and changing, that
maximize the use of knowledge and information, and deploy it
faster and to better advantage than their competitors.
Successful organizations will be characterized by their ability
to use information better, learn faster, be dynamic rather than
static, and foster innovation while managing risks. All of these
outcomes will require a greater quality and quantity of Business
Intelligence (BI) delivered via robust reporting systems than is
currently available today in most organizations.
Access to critical management information lets administrators
and managers make informed decisions that can significantly
improve results. As organizations ‘flatten,’ key decisions are
being made at increasingly lower levels--which means that almost
every employee needs quick, easy access to appropriate
information. Organizations are also discovering that making
information more easily accessible and easily understood to
individuals throughout the enterprise can have profound changes
in productivity and outcomes. The widespread growth in data
warehousing is clear evidence of the efforts of an expanding
number of organizations to leverage their investments in
transactional data systems and to obtain both increased
operational responsiveness and decision support at the
managerial level.
Despite the apparent need, in many organizations management
information maintained in data warehouses, data marts,
enterprise resource planning systems, and a myriad of corporate
databases is largely inaccessible for many employees. The advent
of OLAP (online analytical processing), with its ability to
easily consolidate and present summarized information from a
wide variety of sources without the need to build SQL-type
queries offers the promise of more effective and meaningful
access to critical management data.
For most large organizations, gathering data
on customers or suppliers is no longer an issue — ERP and CRM
solutions do this well. But providing employees with a
straightforward way to access and analyze that data is a
separate challenge. To get these reports, employees must route a
request through their IT department — which is rarely the most
effective use of IT staff time. Too often, these requests form a
backlog and opportunities to act on business intelligence are
lost.
Extended Results BI architecture offerings help address these
issues by giving your organization the ability to integrate data
from multiple operational systems into more manageable formats
within a data warehouse. By doing this, employees can gain more
timely and better access to information due to improved data
quality and more effective data mining.
Contact us for project and
pricing information for your company needs.
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