SAS^® Activity-Based Management for Defense

For the Department of Defense, improving the oversight and accountability for expenditures is one the Secretary of Defense’s top priorities for business transformation.   In the Spotlight U.S. Navy: A Shipshape Costing Structure U.S. Navy improves visibility with activity-based cost management. Linking ABC and the Balanced Scorecard View this archived Webcast to find out how linking ABC and Balanced Scorecard can create significant opportunities for both methods and enhance their collective value. SAS Activity-Based Management is the market-leading solution that gives organizations the level of detail necessary to make accurate, insightful decisions that will improve financial performance. Unlike traditional accounting systems geared for external reporting, SAS Activity-Based Management provides accurate financial information in a form that mirrors the day-to-day activities of the people, equipment and processes that directly affect an organization. SAS Activity-Based Management gives organizations the power to contain costs, improve operational efficiencies and accurately predict future costs and resource requirements. Armed with this intelligence, defense departments and agencies can make informed, fact-based decisions that will lead to improved performance and align resources to focus on core missions. With SAS Activity-Based Management, organizations can: Determine the true contributors to, and detractors from, financial performance. Accurately predict costs and resource requirements associated with changes in production volumes, organizational structure and resource costs. Easily identify the root causes of poor financial performance. Track costs of activities and work processes. Provide shared-service organizations such as the IT department with a clear understanding of costs associated with internal customers, so budgets and service-level agreements can be more accurately determined. Equip leaders with cost intelligence to drive improvements. SAS Activity-Based Management is the most complete end-to-end solution on the market. By transforming accounting and operational data into meaningful financial intelligence, the solution allows your organization to gain new insight into your financial health. SAS Activity-Based Management is the only solution that offers: A robust interface that quickly and easily gets financial intelligence into the hands of your decision makers. Powerful analysis and reporting tools for thorough exploration of activity-based management cost models. Flexible, open business modeling, which includes a rich set of modeling features and a highly scalable model architecture. The most complete data warehousing capabilities available, via the heart of the leading ETL offering. Unmatched domain expertise, with the resources, leadership, implementation experience and training abilities that lead the activity-based management market.

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