Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence (BI) solutions help your organization achieve tactical and strategic goals by delivering the visibility needed to make the right decisions. SMART EPM for Business Intelligence can turn corporate-wide data into meaningful information, and then into collective intelligence. More informed decisions mean enhanced revenue, reduced risk, cost containment, and better operational control.

Challenges to effective decision-making may include:

• Limitations on analyzing data across business dimensions, such as simultaneous review of financial, human resources, program/project, and operations data
• The inability to perform "what-if" analyses on corporate information
• Inconsistent views and limited access to data across the organization
• The high cost of manually-prepared, "one-time-use" reports.
• Are these scenarios familiar to your organization?
• After years of computerization, information is fragmented across the organization into "data silos".
• Information from one division or region to another is maintained in a completely different way.
• Standard reports and intuition, rather than thorough analysis, guide the decision-making process.

BI solutions can be a transformational asset for organizations. It can eliminate much of the guesswork within businesses; enhance communication and joint planning across functions and lines of business, and enable organizations to respond much more quickly to changes in financial conditions, customer preferences and key operations.

All industries seek solutions that enable more rigorous analyses on larger data sets than in the past, but it takes more than just technology. BI providers must be able to understand these industries' visions, business processes, regulatory and competitive environments, and the compelling needs of their information customers. LMR Solutions, and its experience in a wide variety of industries, brings that kind of business-specific knowledge along with state of the art technology.

SMART EPM for Business Intelligence consists of comprehensive Microsoft scorecarding, reporting, analysis, and dashboard applications that provide employees with deep contextual insight into business data. Using Microsoft technology, companies can align action with strategy to improve performance by enabling every employee to understand business drivers, shape solutions, and execute shared plans. SMART EPM for Business intelligence will support specific business methodologies with reports and metrics for such programs as Six Sigma, Earned Value Management and Balanced Scorecard or you can engage LMR Solutions to help your organization configure SMART EPM for Business Intelligence to support your specific Business Methodology.

Key Benefits

Streamlined, Centralized Reporting

A centralized method for providing meaningful information on-demand, and real-time reports. Minimize the need for costly, and time consuming ad-hoc report efforts.

Business Performance Management

Align company strategies with tactical action plans, and continuously improve performance by enabling all personnel to understand business drivers as they execute projects and work initiatives.

Data Visualization

Through advanced graphical presentation tools, organizations can simplify the communication of business data, and more quickly acquire business insight.

Meaningful Metrics Monitoring

Easily accessed scorecard views will keep everyone current on the progress of key performance indicators (KPIs). Scorecards are specific to your business, and customized to individual roles and employees in your organization.

Regulatory Compliance

Real-time, complete, and accessible information will provide the visibility and accountability required for compliance in today's regulatory environments.

Supports Quality, Improvement and Maturity Initiatives

Through visibility, and common, consistent methods of doing business and communicating information, the advancement of initiatives like Sarbanes-Oxley, Six Sigma, CMM are greatly enhanced.

Focus on Your Core Business

Rather than spending valuable time and resources on the generation and communication of reports, BI automates and simplifies so your employees spend more time on productive, revenue generating activities.

Contact Us to learn more about SMART EPM for Business Intelligence

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In today's competitive marketplace, let SMART EPM for Business Intelligence helps you succeed. Centralize, simplify, and automate the communication of business information to improve the effectiveness of your operations.

SMART EPM for Business Intelligence for your smart decisions