Solutions

Enterprise Web-based Reporting

Enterprises are increasingly demanding the ability to provide critical information directly to employees who are most impacted by a particular issue. The result is business managers who are better equipped to respond to situations that help drive profitability. For example, Sales personnel can leverage the power of data analysis and reporting tools to determine what factors are driving the business (Sales Analysis), track customer and product profitability, and use sales force inputs to measure win ratios for key customers.

Admittedly, management reporting is not a new concept. However, the advent of the web and the consequent heightened expectations about data transparency and freshness have revolutionized this field. Tools such as Cognos ReportNet, Hyperion Essbase XTD, arcplan dynaSight, and Actuate 7 are now delivering on the decades old promise of management reporting. They extend critical business information across and even beyond the enterprise, i.e. to suppliers and customers.

URS management reporting is Paragon’s value-added to such software packages. Capable as they are, these vendor products do not deliver any return until they are professionally integrated with the legacy operational systems. Paragon’s twenty years experience with consolidating and migrating mission-critical systems, combined with innovative methodologies based upon classic Six Sigma tools for process and data analysis, yield a potent answer to the challenge of implementing today’s promising web-based reporting tools.

Analytics

"Ignorance is the greatest threat to modern business. The risk of not knowing is immense." (Gartner, Inc.)

For companies that truly aim to use information to drive business improvements, the goal is clear: work smartly to capture specific "hard-to-find" information; then act on this information to create an advantage over competitors.

Today’s business intelligence tools, across the board, have increasingly offered embedded general, as well as domain-specific, analytic capabilities. Case studies citing dramatic positive impacts to the bottom-line abound for investments in analytic capabilities; but these benefits are often difficult (and sometimes impossible) to predict with accuracy – so the spoils go to those organizations whose executive management is willing to make a strategic investment in their information architecture. Paragon’s approach to delivering analytic excellence focuses on ensuring that such an investment is focused, reasonable, and guided by industry best practices.

Corporate Performance Measurement (CPM) Dashboards

Our BI specialists are expert at identifying, defining, and developing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the enterprise or for a specific department – and exposing and visualizing these KPIs via digital dashboards. Significantly, the CPM dashboards will feature predetermined thresholds for KPIs as well as alerts and/or other mechanisms to close unnecessary delays to action.

Guided by the simple principle of metrics plus action, Paragon’s CPM dashboards will help your organization evolve a disciplined focus on information and issues that are, by design, of strategic impact to the organization’s core operations.

The benefits you will accrue include the following:

• Ensure consistency in measuring and depicting metrics about operational efficiencies, sales activity, profitability, and overall corporate performance information
• Monitor and respond to relevant events and patterns in real time
• Make executive management decisions at least 3-4 times faster, and with a greater degree of consensus and support