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Enterprise Performance Management

Four fundamental sources of noise cause difficulty in determining true market demand: current data, such as orders and inventory; market assessment, such as intelligence and consensus on how appealing products and promotions (and competing products) might be to the market; market objectives, the goals the company has for its products, such as unit sales, average price, market segment share, and product leadership; and, strategic plans, such as the decisions about which products and stock keeping units (SKUs) to sell, how to price them, and how to take advantage of manufacturing efficiencies.

Computing power has increased while data storage capacity and costs have fallen dramatically, and end-user information access has seen a pervasive change through the rapid adoption of Web-based reporting and analysis solutions. As a result, the software market is converging as vendors from each of the three classes are rushing to capitalize on these technology advances. The trend is toward integrated product offerings, commonly referred to as enterprise performance management suites, which respond to the growing demand for more integrated and robust performance management tools.

Intsolvers assists clients to develop a fully integrated solution based on a single, common reference data repository. Our efforts would bring an equally important consensus building around certain "state-of-the-discipline" principles, which will implement the best designed and implemented EPM systems. These principles include:

Business Intelligence

As businesses started automating more and more systems, more and more data became available. However, collection often remained a challenge due to a lack of infrastructure for data exchange or due to incompatibilities between systems. Reports on the data gathered sometimes took months to generate. Such reports allowed informed long-term strategic decision-making. However, short-term tactical decision-making often continued to rely on intuition. A set of concepts and methods are required to improve business decision-making by using fact-based support systems.

Business intelligence (BI) refers to computer-based techniques used in spotting, digging-out, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.  The business intelligence solution use EPM as an extension of reporting and analysis. Performance management builds on a foundation of BI, but marries it to the planning-and-control cycle of the enterprise - with enterprise planning, consolidation and modeling capabilities. Thus Business intelligence aims to support better business decision-making.

Intsolvers use a set of methodologies, processes, architectures, and technologies that transform raw data into meaningful and useful information used to enable more effective strategic, tactical, and operational insights and decision-making. Macro level and micro level business requirement analysis are carried out during engagement. We find the following crucial success factors for the implementation of a BI project, they are as follows:

Decision support systems

A decision support system (DSS) is a computer-based information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance. Business Intelligence (BI) reporting tools, processes, and methodologies are key components to any decision support system and provide end users with rich reporting, monitoring, and data analysis.
There are three basic components in a DSS:

Depending on the system, each of these components may be very simple or highly elaborate. The database, or in advanced systems, a database management system(DBMS) or a data warehouse, consists of structured, real-life information, such as customer account records, product sales history, employee schedules, or manufacturing process statistics. The model base, or model base management system (MBMS), contains one or more models for the kind of analysis the system will perform. For example, if the purpose of the system is to supply sales projections under different conditions, one model might be a linear regression formula derived from past sales and other factors. The user interface integrates the two into a coherent system and provides the decision maker with controls for—and possibly feedback about—managing the data and the models.
Intsolvers assists organizations to develop customer driven managerial decision support systems. The customer-driven managerial decision making process is similar in design to the operations
research and system analyst communities classical decision making process. The prime driver for
the customer-driven decision making process, however, is realized in the actual needs of the
Customer that the organization as a whole must satisfy As the decision making process is implemented, continual validation and verification of the models and proposed solutions is made against the customer requirements to ensure successful solution implementation. The main stages of developing and implementing  DSS are as follows

Integrated Business Planning

Recent developments and successes in the areas of business intelligence and performance management are accelerating the adoption of integrated business planning. Integrated business planning (IBP) refers to the technologies, applications and processes of connecting the planning function across the enterprise to improve organizational alignment and financial performance. IBP accurately represents a holistic model of the company in order to link strategic planning and operational planning with financial planning.
By deploying a single model across the enterprise and leveraging the organization’s information assets, Intsolvers assist corporate executives, business unit heads and planning managers use IBP to evaluate plans and activities based on the true economic impact of each consideration. Intsolvers help companies implement  IBP to translate insight into financial impact by providing analyses such as

Business Process Management

A business process comprises a series or network of value-added activities, performed by their relevant roles or collaborators, to purposefully achieve the common business goal.  These processes are critical to any organization: they may generate revenue and often represent a significant proportion of costs. As a managerial approach, Business Process Management (BPM) considers processes to be strategic assets of an organization that must be understood, managed, and improved to deliver value added products and services to clients.

Intsolvers assists organizations to improve and optimize their business processes. We believe that business is a human driven activity and it is necessary to integrate all human-driven processes in which human interaction takes place in series or parallel with the use of technology. Business process management activities can be grouped into five categories: design, modeling, execution, monitoring, and optimization.
After effective implementation, our BPM tools allow users to: