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To know which actions will improve your organization's performance, you need a deep understanding of the factors that influence it. That understanding requires much more than a pretty dashboard sitting on top of basic reporting applications.
Organizations that rely on a few shallow capabilities for performance management often find it difficult to pinpoint the root cause of performance issues, identify business opportunities, make agile decisions or sustain profitable growth.
SAS provides the broadest, deepest range of offerings for performance management. Our performance management software helps you bring context and direction to your business intelligence initiatives and supports a continuous process for improvement.
In short, we let you do more than manage the performance of your organization – we help you improve it.
Key benefits
SAS offers the flexibility for you to implement any number of performance methodologies, from a balanced scorecard to Baldrige, Six Sigma or any other customized framework. Whether or not you choose to adopt one of these methodologies, SAS' capabilities for performance management provide a number of powerful benefits:
Better align resources with strategies. When you understand which measures drive your business, you can begin to align operations toward those drivers. Predictive scorecarding capabilities let you tie traditional scorecard features such as traffic lights and speedometers to powerful predictive analytics.
Synchronize financial and operational strategies. Collaborate on the development of scenarios and associated budgets. With one integrated solution for financial planning, budgeting and reporting, SAS gives you the ability to create more frequent, accurate forecasts, ensure financial transparency and publish reports more quickly. Dynamic consolidation also ensures that the latest information is always available for decision makers and regulatory agencies.
Quickly respond to business and market changes. At-a-glance dashboard visuals ensure that you have the most efficient access to your organization's current status. Automatic alerts inform you immediately of important events. You can also view cause-and-effect relationships between events, which help illustrate results in the proper context. A diagram editor makes it easy for you to visualize strategies and process flows. All these capabilities are offered through one integrated solution.
Ensure a single view of enterprise information. To ensure a clean, consistent view of information within each department, SAS' performance management offerings are all built on the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform. This platform offers unmatched data integration, storage, business intelligence and analytics, so you can always be confident that your choices will deliver the expected results.
Identify the true value of customers, products and channels. Profitability management creates highly accurate profitability metrics from detailed transactional data that drive strategic decision making and instill confidence in your performance management programs. SAS creates drillable P&L reports that allow you to choose the level of detail needed to make your most critical business decisions.
Reduce costs without compromising profitability. SAS provides activity-based management to let you get a complete operational view of cost and cost drivers.
Focused departmental solutions
SAS provides a number of focused business solutions to enable performance management
in various departments within your organization:
- IT – Clarify
the real costs and value of your information assets, and identify the best
projects and strategies to maximize that value.
- Human resources – With
a holistic view of your workforce, analyze and optimize human capital.
- Finance – Create
a cohesive, holistic perspective of true costs, profitability, regulatory
compliance, forecast scenarios and optimization strategies.
- Customer intelligence – Understand
customer behavior, risk and profitability, then drive more effective offers
and marketing campaigns.
- Marketing performance management – Understand, align and improve the performance of your marketing efforts, as well as quantify how marketing contributes to your company's overall success.
- Procurement – Analyze
spend and supplier performance, so you can make strategic sourcing decisions
and optimize your supplier base.
Framework
To realize the full vision of enterprise-wide performance management, organizations need to integrate their management systems and improvement initiatives. Only SAS has performance management capabilities built into each of its solutions.
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Industries
Activity-Based Management
