SAS® Profitability Management
Understand and manage profitability at the most detailed level
SAS® Profitability Management provides accurate cost and profit calculations based on the rule-driven allocation of expenses and revenue down to the individual transaction. By providing insight into profitability factors, the solution helps decision makers focus on opportunities for profitability improvement - such as preventing unprofitable customers from destroying up to 400% of your net income.
Benefits
- Allocate costs quickly and easily.
- Speed up budgeting and reporting.
- Import models from SAS Activity-Based Management.
Features
- Drillable, customizable reporting
- Individual or multiple behavior assignments
- Flexible driver rules
- UI-based rules creation
- Model build via import
- Multiple application support
- Dimension table management
How SAS® Is Different
SAS Profitability Management builds on our experience of implementing SAS Activity-Based Management at more than 750 customer sites. We strive to listen, learn and then develop innovative solutions that create value for our customers.
The analytic support of SAS Profitability Manager allows you to maximize the insights, utilization and value of your profitability information.
- Calculate profitability at a detailed level for substantial volumes of cost drivers and transactions.
- Calculate costs at the level of individual transactions.
- Define rules for viewing cost calculations using a rules-based engine.
- Support multiple costing and management methods for flexibility in modeling the way your business is designed.
- Maximize the insights, utilization and value of your profitability information with analytic support.
- Enhance the process of accessing, calculating and deploying profitability information by accessing the shared technology platform.
Benefits
- Allocate costs quickly and easily. SAS Profitability Management allows you to create a robust assignment model in a point-and-click environment quickly and far more accurately than traditional allocation engines. Once the rules are set up, allocation results can be used to more accurately identify clusters of customer behavior as priority segments for improvement.
- Speed up budgeting and reporting. Results can be bulk loaded into departmental budgeting and reporting systems, reducing the budget cycle and enabling a greater level of detail for planning and reporting.
- Import models from SAS Activity-Based Management. By importing models, you can get the sophistication of the SAS Activity-Based Management model with the speed and capabilities of SAS Profitability Management. You’ll have the flexibility to run profit reports daily or weekly. rather than monthly or quarterly, to see exactly how changes in your operating environment affect cost and profit by transaction.
Features
- Drillable, customizable reporting
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- Web reporting interface generates fully customizable reports showing revenue, cost contributions, total profit and other value categories in the standard vertical format used by financial systems.
- Individual or multiple behavior assignments
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- Assignment rules can match a single transaction to both single and multiple behaviors and track the values uniquely associated with each one.
- Flexible driver rules
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- Assigned values can be calculated using either unit values or total values
- UI-based rules creation
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- Numeric, dimensional lineage and string comparisons can be used in selection clauses to create advanced rules based on virtually any costing methodology.
- Model build via import
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- Entire models can be built based on tables that can be registered into the SAS Metadata Server.
- Individual or multiple tables can be registered into SAS Metadata Server.
- Multiple formats from multiple data sources can be used to build tables.
- Multiple application support
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- Reporting and analysis by all SAS solutions and analytic products, as well as many third-party products, is available through tables output and registered in the SAS Metadata Server.
- Dimension table management
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- Unlimited dimensions from virtually any data source can be stored for use in reporting and assignment rules.
System Requirements
Client environment
Operating systems
- Windows 2000 SP3
- Windows XP Professional SP2 (recommended)
Web browsers
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 (recommended)
Framework
- Eclipse RCP 3.2+
- Eclipse EPP 3.2
Java
- JRE 1.4.2_09
Server environment
Operating systems
- Windows 2003 Server SP3
- Windows 2003 Server (recommended)
- Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition is required to use more than 4 processors.
Java
- Java 2 SDK 1.4.2_05
Java Servlet container
- Apache Tomcat 4.
Note: SAS includes a reference implementation of Apache Tomcat. Sites can optionally choose to license a Web server or WebDAV component directly from the vendor.
Web-tier environment
Operating systems
Windows 2003 Server SP3 • Windows 2003 Server (recommended) • Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition is required to use more than 4 processors.Java
- Java 2 SDK 1.4.2_05
Web server
- Apache Tomcat 4.1
Note: SAS includes a reference implementation of Apache Tomcat. Sites can optionally choose to license a Web server or WebDAV component directly from the vendor.
SAS® Metadata Server environment
Operating systems
- Any SAS-supported operating system
Java
- JRE 1.4.2_09 (if SAS Metadata Console is installed)
SAS® Workspace Server, SAS® OLAP Server and SAS® Transaction Assignment Server
Operating systems
- Windows 2003 Server SP3
- Windows 2003 Server (recommended)
- IBM AIX 5.1+ (recommended)
- Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition is required to use more than 4 processors.
SAS® Transaction Assignment Server (optional)
Operating systems
- Windows 2003 Server SP3
- Windows 2003 Server
- IBM AIX 5.1+
- Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition is required to use more than 4 processors.
Note: SAS Transaction Assignment Server may optionally be moved to its own host. This is most useful for deployments that prefer a Windows environment for standardized technologies, but have existing IBM AIX servers with enhanced hard-disk subsystems for greater data throughput capabilities.
Please contact your SAS representative with any additional questions about technical requirements.
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Call us at 1-800-727-0025 (US and Canada) or request more information.
