Take Control of your Business!

Many of the organizations I speak with don’t feel they’re doing enough with their business data.

SMB’s should ask themselves:

- What types of analyses and reporting would you ideally like to be able to do in your organization (e.g., data mining, performance metrics, and/or interactive reporting)?
- How do you deliver business insights to all levels of your organization?
- How do you currently control access to your data?
- Are you able to access it in real time?
- Is Export to Excel most used function in your ERP?
- Do you find difficulty to access data from diverse data sources and compile in a single report?
- Reports asked for take too long time to deliver and become outdated?
- Reports are in-flexible and not available when & where needed?

SMBs should educate themselves understandings of what functions aren’t delivered by ERP systems. ERP systems generally cover most of the straightforward transactional processes, which are good enough for most users. However, their managerial and reporting processes may be relatively weak and may not further the goals of more-strategic use of reporting. Compare the reporting functions included in ERP & a typical MIS Server.

ERP comes with a reporting toolset and predefined set of reports with general purpose query tools to generate reports with data within ERP database. These tools are difficult and confusing to use and rely on IT team to deliver the on demand report which will take time where only thing that matters user is answer question of the moment. ERP provides acceptable day to day operations reporting but if business requirement changes these static ERP reports needs to be changed. While changes in the required report may take developers weeks, month or years or may never change and users demand it now.

Business is ever dynamic with new product lines, new production methods, new distribution channels and ever demanding customer needs cannot be fitted in a rigid ERP system. Since it is impossible to predict the business it is impossible to define reporting needs for next coming years today. By using BI and getting reporting done from an external system you are giving powers to user to define and generate ad hoc reports while freeing valuable IT resources. It will quench the ever demanding thirst of users and empower them to turn data into meaningful business decisions.

With MIS Server connected to multiple applications, multiple database:

- Get a complete view of your business
- Expand your business and customers
- Take proactive control of your business
- Streamline your MIS
- Support your ever changing reporting needs
- Trust in a solution you can count on

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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by Vikram Kole
Filed under: Business Intelligence, Emerging Trends, View Points & Perspective