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Every company, small, medium and large has multiple systems that perform different functions., Think sales, marketing, finance, operations, research, technical but the one common denominator is that they all produce data – in most cases, significant amounts of data. Additionally that data is continually being created every day, week, or month.  Just to add some additional complexity the data is often stored in different places and unsurprisingly in different formats. Therefore it might come as no surprise that  data is often very complex. This can be for some companies one of the many reasons that they don’t utilise historical information that could help them understand what might happen in the future.

Fortunately, dashboards provide intelligent data insights that can be used to plan and understand a project’s lifecycle where insights based on facts can be visualised. Additionally, BI solutions are able to provide useful insights in real time, as well as providing the facts to ensure that companies make  better informed business decisions. The better the data, the more valuable the insights.  This will then allow companies to start increasing their productivity.

BI Dashboards can be securely shared with every relevant person within your organisation to ensure quicker, smoother decision making. BI solutions help  identify where operations can be improved. This means that once the insights have been digested managers can  plan their budgets to improve profit margins as they know what’s happening as the dashboards are based on real data and decisions no longer need to be made with only a subset of information.

But there is more, as we know that data resides in many repositories often in the cloud we can consolidate the different data and provide a holistic dashboard stacked full of actuals but presented in an easy to visualize way. These could include all types of graphs, new scrollable reports, heart maps  and a variety of different tools. These include date and time slicers so you can see what happened over a particular period. Reports often in line graphs can be displayed one on top of the other  to show the different variances over the time period that you select.

Imagine your sales division who has information on a CRM which could be exported easily to an excel file. Now, imagine a finance system, again and often quite easily financial actual cost can be extracted from the system and sent by email to the person who will post-process everything. They then download and consolidate all of the data but of course to consolidate isn’t as easy as it sounds. This is because many fields can be presented in different formats. Date is a good example – DD/YY/MM or DD/MM/DD or  even DD/Month/Year. The same is true of many other fields. Whilst transforming data input is easy it rarely is simple. This inevitably adds time onto any manual process but imagine if there were numerous fields.

Regardless of the application and the extraction and subsequent transformation of the data it still has to be visualised and then it has to be updated.

Many companies are now using comparative analysis to help them make decisions and monitor their projects. Often as a direct result reports can be generated easily and automatically where management can discover insights and trends early in a project to save time and save money. BI Dashboards improve workflows, operations and decision making and allowing you to take rapid action!

To find out more please email johnbond@greenplane.co.uk for more information or call our land line on 0208 159 6 159. If you prefer you can call Mike on 07889 115660 for an initial discussion.