Capsules: simulation and support of business processes
The ability to effectively manage business processes
requires the unification of BI and CPM capabilities. Traditionally,
BI initiatives and tools are separate systems from planning and forecasting.
The next generation of BI needs to close this gap and not only improve
the capability of representing and measuring business processes but
also the capacity of predicting the impact on business performance
of potential future events. BOARD has been unifying BI and CPM
for ten years.
Supporting a vast range of methodologies, metrics
and processes with great simplicity,
BOARD provides an ideal solution for business
processes modeling and simulation.
Concurrent multi-user write back and embedded
simulations functions make BOARD a unique and
innovative solution for company-wide budgeting,
forecasting and planning.
With the embedded database function called Splitting & Splatting,
BOARD makes it possible to modify data at all
aggregation levels (e.g. Budget per Division)
and automatically allocate changes back to the
lowest level of detail (e.g. per Article and
Customer). In this context, it is possible to
verify immediately the impact of change made
from all levels (e.g. per Agent), thus offering
excellent support for interactive simulation.
More generally, the programming-free creation
of procedures and the use of dedicated objects
for representing processes and validated data
entry enable users to very quickly build extremely
sophisticated models for simulation and support
of corporate processes. These procedures can
consist of a free series of actions of various
types such as multi-dimensional cube calculation
operations, selection, printing, data import
and export, conditional branching, links to
other screens, etc.
With these capabilities, organizations can
implement CPM and BI solutions with BOARD
in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional
BI approaches, which are often rigid, template-driven,
hard to implement and costly.
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