MicroStrategy BI Solutions - Scorecards & Dashboards

Business Intelligence Software : MicroStrategy BI Solutions - Scorecards & Dashboards

Scorecards and dashboards provide "at-a-glance" information about business performance across the enterprise. They are typically generated for managers and executives who need an overall view of business performance and find tremendous value in viewing timely, visually intuitive snapshots of strategic financial and operational data.

The MicroStrategy platform provides the full range of scorecard and dashboard capability. We offer a unique enterprise reporting solution that combines powerful, graphical zone-based layout techniques used to produce scorecards and dashboards with traditional banded report formatting to produce data-rich yet visually compelling reports.

Organizations can comprehensively manage performance on the MicroStrategy platform, leveraging all enterprise data and reaching all individuals across the enterprise with visually compelling displays.

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MicroStrategy - Corporate Performance Management

Business Intelligence Software MicroStrategy : Corporate Performance Management

Strategic management ... Corporate governance ... Performance measurement ... Process drivers ... Problem identification ...Value creation ... Goal alignment. These high-level business needs are only a sampling of the terms and concepts wrapped into the concept of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) and similar concepts like Business Performance Management (BPM), Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Strategic Performance Manage-ment (SPM), etc.

What Is Corporate Performance Management (CPM)?
CPM is best understood in two parts: Operational CPM and Analytical CPM. Operational CPM addresses the business process needs of executives and financial managers. Analytical CPM addresses the reporting and analysis needs of executives, managers and staff through all levels of an organization, as well as vendors, suppliers and partners.

Where Will You Get CPM?
Some niche software vendors are bundling software for budgeting, planning and forecasting with a scorecard product, resulting in a non-integrated and usually expensive combination of two separate feature sets under the label of CPM, BPM, etc. Such an approach to CPM is unproven; a much more rational approach is to source your CPM needs from the more established technologies of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Business Intelligence (BI).

For Operational CPM, ERP software is well suited to address planning, budgeting, forecasting, and other operational process needs. Operational requirements for CPM hinge on having financial and managerial process tools that work in concert with existing back-end and other front-end operational applications, all of which are generally provided by enterprise application vendors.

For Analytical CPM, your BI technology should deliver the complete set of analytic requirements. Analytic requirements for CPM include scorecarding and dashboarding, enterprise reporting, first-order analysis, advanced and predictive analysis, and alerting, all of which should be provided on a single enterprise-class BI platform. Enterprises looking to manage corporate performance comprehensively require best-in-class software for both the operational and analytical requirements of CPM.

Addressing Specific Business Needs With Analytical CPM
CPM is frequently associated with management methodologies, such as Balanced Scorecard, Six Sigma, and Activity Based Management. Many enterprises embrace these methodologies or rely on internally developed methodologies. At the end of the day, there are five specific business needs common across all CPM methodologies. These business needs require core Analytical CPM capabilities, which are delivered through the five styles of Business Intelligence.

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MicroStrategy BI Software - Sales and Distribution Analysis Module

Business Intelligence Software : MicroStrategy Sales and Distribution Analysis Module

MicroStrategy’s Sales & Distribution Analysis Module, an application module for supply chain management and operational performance management, provides more than 165 performance metrics and over 80 key reports to help your organization achieve operational efficiencies across the sales-through-distribution value chain.

Built on the MicroStrategy Platform, the Sales and Distribution Analysis Module delivers reports with deeper insight than reports produced from an ERP system. MicroStrategy reports and scorecards allow for advanced, detailed analysis on-line of critical processes including sales order processing, backlog management, and returns handling. Leveraging the security and administration of the MicroStrategy platform, a company may send Delivery Activity Scorecards to distributors, while granting an internal business analyst permission to diagnose inefficiencies in the sales order process.

MicroStrategy’s Sales and Distribution Analysis Module has been designed so that organizations can accelerate supply chain management initiatives by running packaged analytics directly against an existing data warehouse or multiple disparate data sources including SAP® BW. The module can be easily modified and extended to meet additional reporting and data requirements.

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