What are Business Intelligence solutions?
Business Intelligence (BI) solutions are strategic reporting and analytic tools used to gain competitive advantage. In increasingly competitive environments, companies succeed based on their ability to execute and adapt. BI solutions effectively monitor important business processes – processes such as Sales, Supply Chain Management and Customer Retention – so managers can see where they are executing and where they need to adapt. Start with the key performance indicators on an executive dashboard and quickly identify top and bottom customers and performing and underperforming regions. Access a raw materials cost variance report that refreshes with the most recent data every time it's opened. Monitor fill rates tracked by warehouse and drill into details such as customer and product specific information all within one interactive report.
BI solutions make use of tools designed to let you easily access and analyze your data so you can monitor what is happening to your business, understand why it is happening and react accordingly.
Implementing a BI solution from Vizion Solutions means you’ll spend less time finding, filtering and formatting your data and more time analyzing what your data is telling you so you can make informed decisions.
Benefits of a Business Intelligence Solution
- Better decision making – Leads to improved business performance
- Faster more flexible reporting
- Reliable information – Single point of access to multiple data sources = Single version of truth
- Reduced complexity when working with your company’s data
- Reduced IT costs for report generation and data analysis
- Identify data integrity issues
Why are Business Intelligence solutions better than the reporting and analysis capabilities you have today?
Your business collects volumes of data, everyday, that can be useful to managing your business. But, the back-end systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), finance, payroll, sales, manufacturing and point-of-sale, where most of this data resides, are designed to help you run your business processes. They are not designed for reporting and analytics. Accessing data from an ERP system for reporting and analytics purposes is a complex process. Imagine trying to access and integrate data across all your back-end systems, organizing that data and formatting it for one report. Doing this is extremely time consuming, expensive and the results are often unreliable when done without the help of a BI solution. Without a BI solution much of the value of the data you own can go unrealized.
BI solutions offer decision makers self-service access to more of their company’s data with less effort, more reliability and at a faster pace than traditional reporting and analytics methods.
With a business intelligence solution from Vizion Solutions:
- Executives have access to dashboards and scorecards featuring key performance indicators and reports customized to their business
- Managers are able to dive deeper into problem areas using interactive reporting and easy to navigate report portals
- Employees of all skill levels are able to navigate through the reporting framework with minimal training, increasing their efficiency and business knowledge
Business Processes and Industries
Our solutions provide impact across a variety of business processes:
- Customer Service
- Executive management
- Finance
- Manufacturing
- Marketing
- Operations
- Product Development
- Purchasing
- Sales
- Supply Chain
Our solutions have been implemented within the following industries:
- Aluminum Fabricating
- Automotive
- Combustion Systems
- Education
- Food/Beverage
- Garage Door Opener
- Gas Appliances
- Industrial Machinery
- Lawn & Garden
- Lighting
- Minerals and Mining
- Nursery and Garden
- Outdoor Power Equipment
- Printing and Publishing
- Real Estate
- Recreational Transportation
- Sealants and Adhesives
- Shipping