 Business Intelligence with CorVu Most organisations have a broad array of business intelligence needs - from interactive analytical reports to graphical analyses, pivot tables, ad hoc reporting, operational reporting, advanced analytics (such as forecasting, data mining or "what-if" modeling), dashboards and briefing books. In the past, addressing all of those areas typically translated to lots of time, cost, and resources - mainly because a variety of tools and technologies are used to handle the data and display the results to business users. CorVu is a unique business intelligence platform that can address all of an organisations's requirements - within a single product that can be deployed rapidly and cost efficiently. A critical component of the Performance Management application, CorVu provides rich capabilities for reporting, analyses, alerts, dashboards, briefing books, and automated data collection and consolidation. Key Benefits: | »» | Improve responsiveness to business needs. Dramatically reduce time to create new reports | | »» | Empower Business Users. Business users can customise reports and perform ad hoc analyses without IT resources. | | »» | Improve report quality. Prive acccess to data from multiple sources, multi-level drill down, more reliable information, and most importantly - "One Version of the Truth". | | »» | Improve operational efficiency. » Eliminate re-keying of date » Reduce time for the month-end reporting cycle » Reduce report maintenance | | »» | Improve collaboration » Share ad hoc reports and analyses » Record, share and report commentary » Facilitate discussion to complete the business feedback cycle » Automate alerting | | »» | Deliver the right interfaces for the right person » Simple interfaces for non-technical user » Empowering interfaces for appropriate business users » advanced analytical techniques abailable for business analysts |
 With comprehensive capabilities, including interactive scorecards, strategy maps, briefing books, dashboards, and pre-built reports and views, CorVu ties performance metrics and initiatives to strategic objectives. Most importantly, the tracking of initiatives, accountabilities, communications, and workflows enables CorVu to manage performance, not just measure it. A flexible, purpose-built application, CorVu is easy to use, scalable, and rapidly deployable. It's ideal for supporting an organisation's basic scorecarding needs in the short term, as well as advanced performance management requirements in the future. Key Benefits: | »» | Communicate objectives and initiatives. Communicate the strategic plan to those who are responsible for executing it | | »» | Drive performance improvements. Link performance metrics and key initiatives to strategic objectives to ensure successful strategy execution and drive profitable growth | | »» | Improve Productivity. Initiatives and resources that are not aligned with strategic objectives can be eliminated or redirected | | »» | Improve corporate visibility. Executives and managers can monitor and manage key drivers of business performance with personalised dashboards, scorecards, briefing books, and drill-down reports | | »» | Ensure regulatory compliance. An automated performance management process provides the visibility, control, and accountability necessary for enforcing corporate governance | | »» | Drive cultural change. Align employee behaviour to strategy execution and provide a clear line of sight from their daily activities to the organisational strategy |
CorVu is an innovative tool for automatically assembling and organising combinations of reports, graphics, performance commentary and other information into a concise, management presentation - in printed form as an online executive portfolio. It provides an informative snapshot of the business in the form of briefing books, board reports, management reports, projekt reports and periodic report packs. CorVu allows organisations to automatically update the assembled information on a scheduled basis. Text within the portfolio - comments, summaries, recommendations, decision and action plans - can be added collaboratively. Executive portfolios can be printed, published over the web, or made available interactively online for virtual meetings, intranets or extranets with any browser. Key Benefits: | »» | Improve management reporting » Assemble and organise an executive portfolio of performance information that can be printed or viewed online » Combine reports, spredsheets, graphics, and commentary into professional-quality briefing books, board reports, and management report packs » Include comments, summaries, recommendations, decisions or planned actions | | »» | Streamline management reporting process » Reduce the time and cost for periodically updating management report packs and board presentations » Schedule automated updates to coincide with regular meetings and presentations » Use templated to establish consistent report layouts | | »» | Leverage investment in exxisting systems » Assemble information from multiple sources - ERP systems, databases, spreadsheets, business intelligence applications, documentation and knowledge - into a single, concise portfolio | | »» | Enable virtual meetings » Conduct virtual meetings and review performance results with interactive, on-line access to portfolios via the web » Provide an effective and low cost means of collaboratively communication performance results for geographically dispersed organisations |
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