Developers: | SAS Institute Inc. (SAS Institute) |
Technology: | BI |
SAS Strategy Management increases management efficiency and provides coordination of organization activity for the purpose of more effective strategy implementation. Unique analytical opportunities allow to reveal and estimate the factors affecting results of organization activity. Information for effective management decisions allows to receive SAS Strategy Management quickly necessary.
Advantages
- Control of performance indicators of activity. SAS Strategy Management allows to create an analysis system and efficiency of activity both the organization in general, and each division by means of creation of strategic maps, charts, metrics. The solution allows to estimate efficiency of interaction of organizational divisions within corporate strategy and to display
- Operational distribution of information. Through SAS Strategy Management heads will be able to distribute information on the current activity and strategic tasks within the divisions, to estimate activity of each of them and to define resources - people, money and technologies – necessary for achievement of strategic objectives.
- Graphic display of communications between indicators, metrics and the purposes. SAS Strategy Management allows to control the organization activity indicators, factors influencing them and to define opportunities and threats by means of strategic maps and charts. The functionality of automatic notifications provides timeliness of obtaining necessary information. The solution also allows to leave comments on the reporting for the purpose of feedback and documentation of different actions.
- Identification and quantitative assessment of potential strategic threats. The built-in statistical procedures allow to estimate the factors influencing the strategy of the organization and to reveal potential threats and opportunities.
- Increase in accuracy, quality and timeliness of information. The possibility of creation of the diagrams of loading, cleaning and data translation used for measure calculation allows to reduce reporting terms, and its quality allows to raise procedures of data scrubbing. SAS Strategy Management also gives an opportunity of creation of Web forms for data entry that allows to use the data which are absent in information systems.
Specific Features
- Built-in industrial sets of indicators
- SAS Strategy Management allows both to create own performance indicators, and to use industrial sets of indicators which are built in the solution
- You will be able easily to set communications between indicators, to create calculation formulas and graphic charts, allowing to construct the reporting system meeting any requirements
- The built-in templates for control of indicators of risks
- SAS Strategy Management supports: Balanced Scorecard, EFQM, Baldrige, Value-Based Management, Six Sigma and others.
- Instruments of creation and visualization of strategic maps
- Reflection of all reporting structure: communications of strategic objectives with performance indicators and metrics by means of graphic charts.
- The solution automatically creates hierarchies of indicators in different tables and display formats.
- Use of broad set of graphic instruments of data mapping, including: traffic lights, signals, flags.
- Use of hyperlinks and analytical procedures for navigation in multilevel reports.
- Management of indicators of complex structures
- Control of the fact that all purposes and indicators within the organization are dynamically connected among themselves and are controlled with observance of required security measures.
- Creation structure of the purposes, the including purpose of each division and their connection with the strategy of the organization.
- Use of automatic rules for prevention of removal of objects of a system (structural divisions, purposes, indicators etc.).
- Access rights restriction as to strategic maps in general, and to specific indicators as a part of cards.
- Data integration
- Automation of data collection allows to save time, to increase quality of the prepared reporting.
- Use web forms for data collection in electronic form.
- Auto eject, conversion and to clean practically any data in any format, on any platform.
- After setup the solution provides complete transparency of how data are used.
- Frequency of collecting of data - monthly, weekly or even daily.
- Use of analytical tools for detection of suspicious data before their getting into the reporting.
- Interactive dashboards
- Reflection in the reporting of both digital, and text data.
- Broad functionality for creation of hierarchical structures of indicators, strategic maps, charts and reports.
- The organization of joint work with the reporting by means of creation of comments.
- Possibility of comparison of indicators from different score cards in one report.
- Determination of threshold measure values and automatic informing by means of e-mail at their exceeding.
- Ample analytical opportunities
- Correlation analysis of influence of indicators of activity on strategic objectives of the organization
- Scenario analysis of organization activity.
- Determination of the factors having the greatest impact on organization activity.
- Optimization of quantity of the used indicators by means of determination most and the least important.