Business Performance Management

Modern companies tend to store valuable management data about sales and purchases, customer relations, finances, production and logistics. These data are stored as a rule in different systems in an unstructured way – sometimes in tables, sometimes as texts. In order to be able to make operational and sound decisions these data should be consolidated.

Business Performance Management (BPM) solutions are designed to automate budgets, create dynamic and predefined reports, plan\actual reports, KPI and charts of their dependences. These tools ensure that the top managers will always get aggregated and easy to analyze data from various corporate data sources like ERP systems, CRM systems, electronic tables, text files, etc.

Based on our experience in the budgeting area NaviCon Group offers Russian enterprises our services in development of the budget management methodology and automation of budgeting.

Automation of budgeting allows generation of budgets with a high participation level of the cost centers, supports “from above”, “from below”, “counter” budgeting, allows estimating the tension of the plans, forecasting, “what-if” analysis, automates budget approval and confirmation processes, gets data from accounting and other systems, and performs fact\actual analysis. Automation of budgeting allows all these functions without ever attracting programmers or developers.

Dynamic Reports provide analysis of the structure of the company’s activity factors, e.g.:

• plan\actual analysis of sales and purchases indicators per time periods, counteragents, items, regions, managers;
• analysis of accounts receivable and payable per time periods, counteragents, accounts, agreements;
• plan\actual income and expense analysis per time periods, budget accounts, documents, the company’s financial structure.

Predefined reports serve to create reports of a definite structure and format in accordance with the corporate style. The predefined reports can be used to reflect the total results of the company’s performance.

With the help of key indicators map it is convenient to monitor business processes. Indicator maps for employees’ personal efficiency may contain comparison factors with the defined standard work output: quantity of created orders, amount of visits, time spent, amount of phone calls, etc. The financial indicator maps may contain such plan\actual indicators as income, revenue, profitability, EBITDA, ROCE and others.

NaviCon Group Company offers its customers the advanced business performance management tools based on the leading solutions: IBM Cognos 8 Performance Management, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, PlanDesigner.