In every company a lot of data were produced every day. Data a collected
on paper, excel, ERP and finance applications, and often with a lot
of additional applications.
Those data are pure gold to drive your business, but often
it is impossible to get adequate business reports. Sometimes the
reporting capabilities of your application does not support easy
reporting or not the way you want a report. Sometime it isn't efficent
to do reporting, means its takes a long time to get reports out. Somtimes
the data are spread over a varitety of applications and can not be analysed
together. In this case data has to be collected "by hand" with all the drawbacks:
mistakes, slow, static.
There is a solution: A Datawarehouse ist an application
collecting data from several other application. You get a
consolidated view to your business.
Visualizing Data - with BDM bluecube .
Example: Sales analysis with profit margin
Which customer buys which products, which products generate wich profit margins,
which customer group gain which profit margin, or which sales channel generates
which costs.
Your ERP delivers that report? Does it consider real paid amounts and year based reimbursements?
We often see that ERP systems can not combine date comming from sales
directly with data comming from accounting. Especially in production business
there is a needs to know the profit margins. Standard ERP supplies those reports
just fragmentary.
Example: Sales rep and commission reports
Which sales rep generates which turnover, what did the sold products cost -
does your report consider expences, customs, and freight charges?
Example: Totlal cost of deliveries with average quantity at each break
You deliver small quantities to a large amount of customers with your own trucks?
Is each break at a customer profitable? Should you combine delivery tours? Or use another
distibution channel?
Example: Dunning - Open items on the delivery tours
Your truck drivers are often by your customers. Supply you drivers with a list
of open items on his tour that he can talk directly to your customer!
Example: Cash Management - the total business overview
Your business is very capital-intensive? You import or export to other countries and
have to consider currency exchange rates? You need to know at which point in time
your fincancing costs?
Cash management ist the absolte highlight of bluecube applicaions.
You get a total overview of your financal situation including expected payments and costs.
Now you have a foundation for your business descissions.
Example: Find mismatches between sales, stock, accounting, and other areas
Example: Improve quality of master data (business partners, products, ...)
The inqiry of your customer data is decentralized? Duplicates?
Categories for reports are not managed by someone? Is it impossible
to settle you master data because there are so many polluted areas and
the effort would be much to high?
From the beginnen of the design of bluecube
there was one aspect in the center: Never loose data, even if the quality of the base data is poor or partly inconsistent.
For those the categories "Not assigned" and "Wrong assigned" are automatically used. Those extra categories
will be added to each hierarchical categoried report - if there are some data falling into those categories.
Now it is easy to find "uncategorized" records which may be missing in other reports.
How does it perform with large amounts of data?
ERP systems store data transaction oriented. That means data can fast be read and stored for transactions.
But often this is unafordable for reports. They become slow. Did you wait a weekend to get you sales report.
And afterwards you see that there is the wrong filter applied? Now it is time change.
bluecube
enables you to get your reports fast - even on a typical office PC - within some mouse clicks. It
is also fast and effiecient enough to be used over slow GPRS access!
For large businesses we offer also the typical datawarehouse and business intelligence applications:
consolidation over sub companies (sub company A uses other numbering
then sub company B) or consolidation over heterogenious systems.
There is just one single limitation: bluecube
can only analyse data which are recorded electronically! But therefore we offer business consulting
to help you to improve you structures and processes.
This chapter shows just a small part of the possibilities of bluecube.
Contact us or one of our partners. We have the knowledge and experience in business and also
technical subjects to gain your business efficiency.
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