Ascendancy Software now provides BusinessObjects XI consulting and development services. BusinessObjects XI is the flagship product of Business Objects, a French company specialising in business intelligence (BI).
BusinessObjects XI and XI Release 2 allow reporting, query and analysis, enterprise performance management (EPM), and enterprise information management (EIM) on available data in your data warehouse.
Dashboards and key performance indicators (KPI) can be tracked from a single location, pulling in disparate data to obtain a single view of the client.
Managing director of Ascendancy Software, Sascha Mohr, says: "With Business Objects, executives as well as all levels of the organisation can quickly obtain insight into how their business is performing on an operational level.
"Ascendancy Software offers the expertise to communicate to your organisation the most efficient way of obtaining the required information when your company needs it, namely right-time data. We can assist with choosing the optimal systems; developing reports, universes and dashboards; and transferring the knowledge to your employees in order to obtain the greatest benefit from your BI platform."
In many cases, BI implementations are already in place but the organisation is not deriving much value from it, either due to lack of employee participation or lack of knowledge on how to fully harness the application. Mohr says: "Many companies have invested in BI platforms, and similarly, many of them have been disappointed with the value derived from such an implementation. The software is expensive so it is understandable that they have been discouraged with the lack of ROI. "Employees are not using the available tools, perhaps insisting on using existing spreadsheet tools such as Excel that they are more familiar with. It all comes down to how involved the employees were when the system was first rolled out. Were the reports and dashboards created together with the employees, finding out what they wanted?
"Ascendancy Software works closely with employees as well as management to ensure that not only are the key metrics available when they are needed, but that the interface and reports can be intuitively accessed. Customisation and special-needs can always be catered for once the groundwork is in place. If large numbers of employees are using the system for making decisions, management will see value in expanding the available reports."
Once a system is in place to allow key decisions to be made regarding the operations of a company, management often gets hungry for something else. The organisation can determine how it is performing at any given time, but executives want to determine what could happen in the future. Here is where analysis skills and the prediction capabilities of the BI platform are key.
"With BusinessObjects XI, Ascendancy Software is able to predict trends and points of interest for management. Analysis of historical data yields the patterns which provide ongoing alerts into company performance. Determine whether your business is not only meeting KPIs now, but what the likelihood is of you meeting them in the weeks to come," concludes Mohr.
For further details, please contact Sascha Mohr on (011) 609 7911 or visit Ascendancy Software's Web site at http://www.ascendancy-software.co.za.
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