The Flash Report The purpose of a flash report is to provide your management team with quick, concise information about your company’s liquidity, profitability and productivity. This report is usually only a page long and displays Key Performance Indicator (KPI) information for your business. Why is the Flash Report so important? Most reports give detailed information for a specific area of the business. The detailed reports allow you to make sure that you are profitable for a specific item, that certain customers are paying their bills, etc. But the Flash Report quickly assesses how your business is doing overall at any given … [Read more...]
BI360: Powerful Budgeting and Reporting for Sage 300 ERP
View our Sage 300 Business Intelligence software solution lunch and learn recording highlighting Solver's BI360 solution. BI360 provides a complete Excel and web-based suite, comprised of Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboard and preconfigured Data Warehouse solutions that integrates to all of your data sources for complete insight! Because BI360 comes with out-of-the-box integration to Sage 300, it only takes a fraction of the time to implement compared to other Business Intelligence solutions. When you view the recording you will discover how to: • Easily design reports with the modern BI360 Excel interface • Empower decision … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know about Sage Enterprise Intelligence
Business Intelligence Software that Integrates with Sage 300 ERP (ver. 2014 & higher) Join us on July 15th, 2015 to discover (in 30 minutes or less) what makes Sage Enterprise Intelligence stand out in today’s Business Intelligence solutions market. Find out why we think Sage Enterprise Intelligence would be a great match for your business: Would you like to get a single, clear picture outlining all your business operations to make well informed decisions? Would you like to easily share reports across your business? Would you like to empower your users to analyze data in a self-sufficient manner? Sage Enterprise … [Read more...]
Key Performance Indicators: Developing Good Metrics for Your Business
Key Performance Indicators In our last blog article about key performance indicators, we talked about the effort involved in developing a good root question for KPI's. Now, lets discuss developing a metrics plan. Ingredients of a Good Metrics Plan A good metrics plan will include a purpose statement, your basic question, the data, how you will measure the data, a timeline for using the metrics, how the metrics will be used, how they will not be used, and the users. Whenever a supervisor/boss asks for data/reports to analyze performance, its important to remember the presence of fear and possible defensiveness. In the business world … [Read more...]
Key Performance Indicators – Identify the Right Questions to Solve Your Business Challenges
Key Performance Indicators Drawing conclusions from symptoms without discovering the real reason the symptoms are occurring (i.e. by looking at the whole picture), may result in a misdiagnosis (not creating good metrics to track ‘real’ improvement) and subsequent disaster. Key Performance Indicators: Identifying the Right Questions One way you can identify the right questions to better understand and solve your business challenges is to use the methodology of asking 5 Why’s. E.g. your boss wants you to send him a report on whether the customer service department has been successfully handling client complaints. Start with what defines … [Read more...]
Front Line Systems Now Offers Sage Enterprise Intelligence for Sage 300 ERP
Sage Enterprise Intelligence Front Line Systems is excited to announce the addition of Sage Enterprise Intelligence to our business intelligence software offerings. An integrated, easy to use Business Intelligence software solution, Sage Enterprise Intelligence provides a real time view of customer’s data, allowing you to make better decisions in a timely manner. It can be used in multiple interfaces (web, mobile and Excel). Sage Enterprise Intelligence Benefits: It connects to Sage 300 ERP and provides you with actionable business information. It allows you to: Review key performance indicators to simplify business … [Read more...]
3 Reasons Business Intelligence Can Be a Lot More Fun Than Playing CLUE!
Who did it? Where did your profits go in the last 6 months? Do you know? It will take ransacking your business data for clues, asking detective questions and leaving no table unturned to find out! Are you ready to question everything to unravel the mystery, discover the heroes, and expose the culprits that are eating up your profitability? A beverage manufacturing business recently hired a new CEO to become more profitable. After doing some detective work the CEO realized that their business data did not have enough clues to efficiently manage their products and customers. Their financial reports were not giving them the information they … [Read more...]
Sage Summit 2014 Recap by Front Line Systems
Sage Summit 2014 Sage Summit 2014 was all about giving customers choices. Sage is making great strides towards making their applications more relevant to meeting customers’ needs. They have dedicated a lot of resources towards developing a cloud platform and creating mobile apps to drive complexity out of customers’ businesses. It’s exciting to see a more connected environment for Sage applications! Himanshu Palsule, CTO of Sage shared some of Sage’s new developments, the Sage Data Cloud, Sage Exchange, Sage Mobile Sales, Sage Mobile Service and Sage Intelligence Go (which will be available mid-2015). A few Sage Summit highlights of … [Read more...]
Get Instantaneous Reports by Manipulating Your Business Data in Real-Time
Business financial reporting software: Get more granular and real-time reporting of your business metrics. Use business financial reporting software to manipulate business data such as customer names, item numbers, sales totals and dates to build reports instantaneously. Why e-Analytics Business Financial Reporting Software? eAnalytics is a high powered Business Financial Reporting engine built on SQL Server Analytics and designed from the ground up to work with Sage 300 ERP (formerly Sage ERP Accpac) data, with backward compatibility to earlier editions. Run the “out of the box” reports and dashboards on day 1, and build your … [Read more...]
