Performance management products and services help users align with strategy by tracking and analysing key business metrics and goals via management dashboards, scorecards, analytics, and alerting.
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is the term covering the top to bottom analysis of an organisation. This close scrutiny reveals what is working and what is not, it shows up the bottlenecks, allows the optimisation of tasks and the alignment of everything with the overall strategic goals. The aim, to improve the performance across the entire organisation. To a degree implementation is common sense, i.e. taking EPM on board means that the Sales Manager ensures his team is trying to sell what the Production Manager is making and not something he is not, however, before you can apply that common sense you have to uncover what is really going on. The purpose of this part of the BusinessObjects package is therefore to make sure you can see what was previously hidden, easily.
The aim of the Dashboard Manager is to ensure that everyone in the organisation is presented with relevant metrics, alerts and monitoring tools in a consistent fashion. This deployment of Dashboards and Scorecards ensures that everyone in an organisation who needs to understand your business activities gets the information that they need to keep them on the right track. The level of detail can also be set using the Dashboard Manager, so that you can zoom in from a high level to a detailed level with a few clicks of a mouse, drilling right down to an underlying report if required.
Monitoring Business Performance
Monitoring business performance is far easier with a dashboard, as you can easily compare your success at say, reducing customer churn against the businesses objectives. This level of information helps everyone make decisions faster and more accurately.
Understanding Business Drivers is far easier with Dashboard Manager. To help it comes with a catalogue of analytic templates which have been designed to help your organisation address your performance management needs. Various sorts of data visualisation templates are provided, so you can be sure to be able to display meaningful information on your organisation's performance.
Personalised Dashboards cover the need for the users who want to see specific sets of data and don't want their interface cluttered by information they are not interested in. However, constructing such dashboards on an individual basis could be a very time consuming affair, that is, it would be but for the drag and drop functionality supplied by Dashboard Manager, which allows organisations the ability to create and deploy personalised dashboards rapidly across their organisation.