The new world of BI and CPM www.board.com In a global economy, traditional competitive factors are losing their importance: many organisations offer similar products, It’s all about making better decisions new technologies are quickly copied, scope for innovation is increasingly limited and off-shoring has weakened geographical advantages. It is the decision-making processes that make the difference Winning companies are those that make the best decisions and implement them in the shortest timeframes, by aligning strategy with opera- tions and providing relevant and timely information to every organisational level. By integrating Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management in a single product, BOARD helps companies manage and control the entire decision-making process: from data collection to information analysis; from goal-setting to decision-making; from operational execu- tion to results monitoring . Along with delivering an unmatched speed in building applications the innovative “toolkit approach” provides an intuitive self-service analysis environment that brings the benefits of Business Intelligence and Performance Management to any user. Reporting Analysis Dashboards Scorecarding All in One Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting Within a single product BOARD offers all the functionalities needed to build any Business Intelligence and Corporate Perfor- Profitability Analysis mance Management application, without the use of any programming. Strategy Management Its revolutionary toolkit approach, as well as delivering unrivalled speed in BI and CPM applications building, customisation Financial Consolidation and maintenance, provides end-users with an advanced interactive interface.This unique capability turns the self-service crea- HR tion of any report or analysis into the simplest of tasks. Marketing Operations Supply Chain One product One vision One technology From the outset, BOARD was conceived as a solu- BOARD helps organisations reach a single vision Unlike its main competitors, BOARD is not based tion to maximise the efficiency of organisations’ of their performance in a simple and extremely on a patchwork of different products and techno- decision-making processes, by integrating Busi- effective manner. logies coming from multiple acquisitions and then ness Intelligence (BI) with Corporate Performan- forcibly integrated. Information originating from various sources is inte- ce Management (CPM): a visionary approach grated into a virtual data repository shared by the The result of an organic development project named Management Intelligence. entire organisation, thus providing business users launched in 1994, BOARD is a unique, integrated Fifteen years later, BOARD leads the way in BI and with a customised but unitary vision. The native product, which enables organisations to oversee CPM unification, providing a seamless solution integration between the information base and their entire Business Intelligence and Performan- from both a technological and functional stan- applications ensures that changes made to appli- ce Management area using a single interface, a dpoint. A full complement of Business Intelligen- cations are propagated to data, and vice versa. single application construction environment, a sin- ce functions, including reporting, multi-dimensio- gle technology and a single strand of know-how. The end result is a full alignment of the Business nal analysis, ad hoc querying and dashboarding, Intelligence and Performance Management envi- is combined with the ability to manage and moni- ronment, which translates into a shared vision of tor all performance planning and control proces- corporate performances throughout the organisa- ses, from budgeting, planning and forecasting to tion, hence into a single version of the truth. profitability analysis, scorecarding and financial consolidation. Business Intelligence and Corporate Performance Management working together Analysis Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting BOARD makes it possible to easily integrate data Scorecards BOARD enables organisations to combine planning processes with budgeting, foreca- from different sources and to create a self-service sting, reporting and scorecarding - effectively aligning performances with corporate stra- analysis environment, that allows users to run: Thanks to innovative graphic functions, BOARD tegic vision. Reporting makes it possible to easily create sophi- Drill-through & drill-anywhere, to navigate sticated Strategy Maps and Scorecards, com- Unlike spreadsheets, the management of BOARD’s multi-dimensional planning makes it possible to BOARD enables users to quickly create data from the highest level of aggregation to the bining striking visual appeal with outstanding introduce workflow, security, audit trail and versioning mechanisms. This enhances the controlla- any kind of corporate report, from simple lowest level of detail effectiveness in illustrating corporate strategy. bility and efficiency of the entire process - making it fully reliable in terms of results and significantly less spreadsheets to multiple-page graphic Dashboards OLAP slice & dice analyses, to obtain a multi- onerous in terms of time and resources. booklets, simply by positioning and configuring Thanks to a wide selection of cockpits, maps, tables The integration of BI and CPM provides an dimensional view of data (e.g. viewing sales by data aware objects on the screen, without requi- and other data-aware objects, BOARD users can interactive link between the visual repre- Advanced functions of What-if analysis and Goal-Seeking are combined with the capability of channel, zone, agent, POS), and identify and ana- ring any programming. easily create customised dashboards. sentation of KPIs and the data, thus giving creating and managing scenarios, allowing multi-dimensional simulations in which the impact lyse any sub-set (e.g. sales by agent X, of pro- These representations provide a visual overview all users a customised and updated view of their of future events is automatically spread to every level of data aggregation, from the broadest outline Three-dimensional graphs, cockpits, maps and new duct Y, for territory Z) of corporate performance and of the main trends performance against set goals. (e.g. Sales by Division) to the lowest level of detail (Item Code). generation animation such as books and carou- What-if and Goal-Seeking scenarios, to simu- and factors affecting it. sels, make it possible to create customised, inte- Users can make in-depth analyses of the trends • Complete management of: workflow, audit trail, versioning, scenarios and approval late the impact of future events and to determine ractive graphic layouts, enabling more intuitive Latest-generation graphic animations and contai- highlighted by the Scorecard by using the native status processes the necessary actions to achieve a previously set data visualisation and interaction. ners such as thumbnails, carousels and books ensu- drill-down and drill-through functions to explore • Automatic allocation of changes, to modify data at all levels of aggregation objective re that key data are represented with groundbrea- the events and dynamics affecting the various KPIs (e.g. budget by division) and to distribute the change automatically to the finest levels The revolutionary toolkit approach combines of detail (e.g. items and customers) Business data modelling, to build sophistica- king clarity. to the lowest level of detail. conventional reporting functions with Performan- • What-if and What-for functions, for real-time impact assessments ted models for distribution, allocation, consoli- ce Management applications in an integrated Native drill-down and drill-through functions The extreme flexibility of the toolkit approach • Excel add-in, with offline data-entry functionalities dation, conversion and reclassification environment, empowering any user to make deci- enable users to examine the information makes it easy to create Scorecards adhering to the • Rolling forecasting and budgeting sions based on a single, shared, coherent infor- Ad hoc queries, to allow users to build perso- down to the lowest level of detail, for imme- most popular methodologies, such as Balanced • Simultaneous write-back, for the purpose of saving budget data to the company’s mation base. nalised data analysis in a self-sufficient way diate and in-depth analyses. Scorecard and Six Sigma, or to customised criteria. relational databases or data warehouses Specific Solutions HR Financial Consolidation HR Performance Management HR KPIs and Dashboards In the Financial Consolidation area, BOARD integrates its Toolkit Approach with BOARD FC, a packaged Skills Mapping solution that natively meets all statutory and management requirements. Employee Costs Monitoring BOARD FC addresses the challenges that multi-entity organisations face today with intercompany HR Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting reconciliations, consolidation adjustments and group reporting. MARKETING & SALES Turn-key functionality merges data from different locations and across multiple general ledgers, perfor- Sales Analysis ming multi-currency conversions and eliminating time consuming and non compliant spreadsheet based Strategy Analytic CRM processes. A Workflow Control Panel makes it easy to monitor and manage the consolidation process Management Brand Performance across the whole enterprise, highlighting the operations status and certifying internal controls. Profitability Analysis Cross-Selling Analysis BOARD helps