Easy Business Intelligence Visibility

In today's business environment there is little room for costly mistakes or oversights. Most companies track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the health and performance of their business. Typically, these measurements are analyzed in monthly reports and only indicate how well or poorly the organization performed over a given period. These organizations lack the visibility to critical business information and find themselves reacting to business problems. The challenge is the ability to see and use real-time metrics and information to be able to anticipate and act on business needs before they become business problems.

Too much data - no information?

In business, we are inundated with data every day from e-mails and reports to mountains of data stored in ERP systems. Most companies are confident their ERP system contains the vital information they need, but most users lack the "know how" to retrieve that information in a timely and consistent manner. For the most part, ERP system users must continually shift between applications to get the information they need to make key business decisions. The challenge is to provide a simple method that allows any user to quickly and easily extract key information and to create personalized views of that information.

Business Wizard is a new breed of information application that provides fully interactive views into all areas of a company's enterprise. It is a multi-purpose, vertical software tool designed to be a user interface focused on the needs of manufacturing companies. Business Wizard provides users with a suite of powerful tools to view and act on information from your ERP system. By incorporating standard templates and processes designed around the needs of manufacturing companies, Business Wizard is a powerful business tool that is quick to implement, simple to learn, and easy to use.

How Business Wizard can Help Your Company:

Strategic Focus on Information

Information is a company's most powerful resource. Yet, in most cases, it is gravely underutilized. By providing Executive Dashboards, pre-configured templates, and flexible views, Business Wizard provides critical information that allows you to operate your business more effectively, increasing your profitability and competitive advantage.

Get More out of your ERP System

Business Wizard acts as a mantle over your ERP system, providing a simple, real-time consolidated view of your data and highlighting information that is critical for key business decisions. Quick Wizard allows any user to quickly and easily create a custom view of information in seconds. Another key feature is the ability to launch an ERP application directly from highlighted data, allowing you to render complex data into actionable information.

The Business Wizard Family

Today there are many software products that provide information extraction and reporting from ERP systems such as Report Writers, Data Mining tools, Executive Dashboards, and Business Intelligence tools. The Business Wizard Family was designed from the "ground up" to provide all of these capabilities - but within one product family - using one product architecture. The Business Wizard Family is comprised of three main components: Business Wizard, Dashboard Wizard, and Quick Wizard.

Business Wizard

Business Wizard is a fully interactive information portal and business management tool available to all segments of your enterprise. This tool provides executives and managers the ability to access information from ERP data and use it in a meaningful way. Business Wizard is designed to overlay the entire enterprise system and to create specific views of the information needed to make key decisions. It provides the ability to render complex data from any department within a company into an understandable, real-time format. Furthermore, it allows for the execution of tasks and activities at both the strategic and tactical levels.

Executives using Business Wizard can manage strategically important information on their desktop, obtain instant access to timely financial and operations data, and access extensive research capabilities through dynamic drill-downs, graphs, and displays.

Department managers using Business Wizard can monitor the performance of their organization in real-time, supporting "Management by Exception". Business Wizard provides alert capabilities through user-defined filters, enabling managers to view key information and thereby solve more problems quickly.

Workers at the line level can benefit from the data-rich environment Business Wizard presents as well. Views of all open issues give users a quick snapshot of the day's work and allow direct access to the transactional sessions within the enterprise software to address these open issues.

Information is displayed in advanced grid form and other graphical formats, providing the user a clear picture of operational status. Research is easily accomplished by using links to drilldowns, maintenance programs, displays, and reports. Users at all levels will find that the information management features in Business Wizard offer a desktop environment that will improve productivity. All the information they will need is at their fingertips.

Business Wizard Key Features:

In this sample Business Wizard, the top panel is displaying Firmed Requisitions. The left lower panel is displaying all Receipts, which contain delivery and quality performance by vendor, for the highlighted part in the top panel. The right lower panel is displaying all qualified Vendors and their current ranking. This information can assist a Buyer/Planner determine the best Vendor and Price for an item.

Dashboard Wizard

An Executive Dashboard displays key performance metrics to quickly and easily identify the current state of your business. The Dashboard Wizard allows you to create and display a personalized Executive Dashboard highlighting key business information that's important to you.

Dashboard Wizard Key Features:

In this sample Executive Dashboard, we are displaying an example of a Quarterly Bookings Dashboard. The chart dashboard displays Sales Order Booking Dollars by month. This information compares your business performance in the current month to past monthly performance, indicating whether Sales Order Bookings are on track.

In this sample Executive Dashboard, we have incorporated additional charts displaying Revenue by Region, Salesperson, and Product Class. The number of floating panels is unlimited, and the details that support the floating panels can be hidden or exposed when the user chooses to drill down.

Quick Wizard

Business Wizard Family templates are easily built using the Quick Wizard by accessing "pre-configured" Business Wizard Views. The user need not know the underlying ERP system and the names associated with the tables. These Business Wizards can be built using terminology familiar to any user in seconds.

Quick Wizard Key Features:

In this example, we used Quick Wizard to create a Business Wizard that displays Purchased Items to be delivered and identifies any outstanding Work Order Shortages for those items. By simply selecting the Topic, Subject, and Screen for each Panel, the following Business Wizard Family was dynamically created in less than 20 seconds.

This Business Wizard displays PO line details for Open Purchase Orders that have parts to be delivered, Shortages, and Work Order Operation details. This way, a user can easily identify where a work order is in the manufacturing process, which can help determine the priority of a shortage fulfillment.

Summary

Business Wizard offers a unique opportunity for superior, enterprise-wide information management by combining instant access to multiple levels of vital business data with an "easy-to-use" business intelligence management tool. Visibility of information from the plant floor to the boardroom and access to meaningful, timely, and accurate information aligned and applied with business rules, policies, and metrics are crucial business requirements. In this way, "Readily Viewable Critical Information" is always available from Business Wizard.

Business Wizard Key Advantages

Cut through the clutter with Business Wizard

For more information regarding Business Wizard, please call 800-473-5382 or see the Business Wizard Data Sheet.

Business Wizard: Cut Through the Clutter

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