spring 2017 sage 300 (accpac) users group

4/28/2017

http://info.gma-cpa.com/watch-the-recording-for-the-sage-300-users-group-in-april-2017

The ability to effectively aggregate, analyze, and decipher

dynamic data sets from disparate sources is a game changer.

Business Intelligence – The New Normal




Employees and stakeholders at all levels can now:

1. Be empowered with the ability to garner valuable insights.

2. Better allocate resources and respond to internal and external

demands at the speed of business.




Employees and stakeholders at all levels can now:

1. Be empowered with the ability to garner valuable insights.

2. Better allocate resources and respond to internal and external

demands at the speed of business.

A number of businesses understand this in theory but fail to act.

Oftentimes it’s due to lack of resources, time, and the perceived

complexity of using BI.

Assumption Data driven behaviors and controlled outcomes

Data Analysis ContinuumFinancial Reporting | Business Intelligence | Advanced Analytics

Financial Reporting

Static ad hoc financialreporting of current and historical data. The ability to create joins, custom design layouts, and consolidated financials with automated report distribution.

BI (Business Intelligence)

The filtering and transformation of current and historical business data to produce performance reports across multiple environments. Offers OLAP (online analytics processing), real-time dynamic dashboards, key enterprise statistics.

Advanced Analytics

The analysis of all types of data using sophisticated quantitative methods such as statistics, descriptive and predictive mining, predictive modeling, and optimization of prescriptive solutions.

Sage Intelligence

Sage Enterprise IntelligenceAll three are functions that CANoffer measurable business impact by using data to uncover opportunities, mitigate risks, acquire customers, and improve operational effectiveness.

Sage Intelligence Reporting

Excel-based reporting tool

Ready-to-use reports and

existing layouts

Designing Financial reports

Creating new reports from

other sources

Collaboration and auto

distribution

Excel-based reporting tool

Ready-to-use reports and

existing layouts

Designing Financial reports

Creating new reports from

other sources

Collaboration and auto

distribution

Sage Intelligence Reporting

Sage Enterprise Intelligence Multi Source Data Access

OLAP: On-Line Analytical Processing and cube is another word for a multi-dimensional set of data. An OLAP cube is a staging space for analysis of data. Basically, a cube is a mechanism used to query data in organized, dimensional structures for fasteranalysis.


OLAP CUBES



OLAP CUBES


USER INTERFACE OPTIONS: WEB

MOBILE

EXCEL

The Financial Impact Of Leveraging Your Data

Where Do You Fit?

Industry focus | Top 8 Industries that can monetize the value of their data. Industries that have the ability to innovate and build out better products and

services by leverage their customer’s usage, behavioral, and transactional

data.

Companies that can effectively leverage analytics and BI can develop and

improve strategy more effectively.

Industry Monetizable Data WHY – The assumed outcome

Retail/B2C Product sales patterns | Customer spending frequency, average spend, and timing

Predict demand | Competitive edge | Better targeted marketing | Identify upsell opportunity | Measure marketing performance

Utilities/Energy Meter usage data | Weather data | Smart home device data

Design of energy efficient buildings | Better value and increased sales | Predict revenues | Usage based pricing

Manufacturing** On-demand 3D printers

Data from sensors built into equipment | Freight carrier data

Preventative eq. maintenance | Throughput efficiency | Faster distribution | Inventory optimization | Improve sales performance

Logistics/Transportation Geolocation and speed data Monitor and track fleet utilization and performance

Hospitals and Healthcare Location data from medical devices | Usage data from medical devices | Historical patient data

Inventory control | Improve operational metrics | Improved quality of care and speed of access to care

Government Patron and member data | Services data Compliance and regulatory reporting getting more government funding | Benchmark service performance | Better resource allocation

Commercial Real Estate Business data Construction process | Workforce productivity | Contractor performance | Project metrics and scorecards

Travel and Hotels Customer behavior data | Sales data Predict demand | Create targeted ads and messaging | Better sales resource allocation

Avon Rubber PLCIndustrial Manufacturer of specialized respiration equipment

About

Headquartered in the UK, Avon Protection manufactures respiration equipment for the

military, law enforcement, firefighters, and industrial organizations. With diverse

international operations, dozens of physical locations, and a large distributed workforce,

Avon needed a solution that could position them to achieve better overall business

outcomes through faster, more accurate, flexible, and intuitive data analysis.

The verifiable business impact of Sage Enterprise Intelligence

Improved human capital resource allocation

Relief of internal IT resources – redeployed to other strategic initiatives

Significant increase in workforce enablement

Concurrent user access for over 250 users

Mobile workforce enablement – mobile access to relevant data

Reporting application consolidation (combined from 8 to 1)

Eliminated the limitations of excel-based reporting for larger data sets

“If you understand the power of data in your business

decision making, you’ll instantly see the value in this tool ”.

Mike DePasqualeGroup Enterprise System Manager, Avon Rubber P.I.C.

ConcentrixBusiness Services

About

Concentrix is a leader in high-value global business services. It partners with clients to deliver

end-to-end customer engagement services, technology innovations, analytics, process

optimization, and business improvements. With a presence in 25 countries and a staff of more

than 90,000 who speak 40+ languages, Concentrix works to make its clients more competitive.

The verifiable business impact of Sage Enterprise Intelligence

Improved human capital resource allocation

Relief of internal IT resources – redeployed to other strategic initiatives

More than 200 concurrent users

Better management of large data sets

Migration from disparate systems to a single, scalable BI application with robust functionality

Reporting and analysis autonomy

Security and governed access to data

“Sage Enterprise Intelligence makes our vast quantities of data easily

and quickly accessible to our teams around the globe”.

Jeremy Cheetham

Finance Director – Europe, Concentrix

4/28/2017

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