Business Intelligence
Helping Publishers and Distributors Make Informed Decisions with Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software
Over the last decade, Business Intelligence Software tools are helping businesses access the mass of data hidden in disparate systems and departments. Business Intelligence tools now allow enterprises to easily gather all related data and turn it into coherent information. The information can then be analyzed properly, used for decision making and then quickly acted upon.
This is where Bookmaster's integrated Business Intelligence module will help your business unlock the hidden value stored within Bookmaster and can be easily accessed by executives with little or no computer expertise.
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Business Intelligence is a standard solution within Bookmaster
It's important to note that Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software is a standard solution supported 100 per cent by IBS and comes with over 175 pre-defined templates so that you can start using Business Intelligence from day one. And because Business Intelligence is an integrated part of Bookmaster, you will only get a 'single version of the truth'.
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software is also quickly and easily implemented for several reasons: it is a pre-built application and not just a tool and it comes with a set of pre-defined templates, views and business rules.
FEATURES
Areas of your business you can analyse include:
- Debtors
- Deferred
- Financial management
- Inventory
- Sales (returns, gross, profit, discounts, demand, budget)
- Subscriptions
Business Intelligence allows you to analyse trends, contributions, aging and ratios such as:
- Achievement against budget
- Discount analysis
- Front list/back list contribution
- Market Share
- New release contribution
- Price trends
- Profit net of rebates
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- Returns aging
- Returns contribution
- Sales & gross margin contribution
- Sales & gross margin trends
- Sales by rep by ISBN
- Stock turns
- Supply ratios
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BENEFITS
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software provides a significant leap in information accessibility and manipulation across the Bookmaster system. It arms you with knowledge that is no longer just based on gut feel or experience but on sound and verifiable information.
Make proactive decisions based upon accurate and consistent information
The ability to analyse various areas of your business such as sales and financials will help you optimise revenue, increase product and customer profitability, boost market share, maximize sales and increase turnover as you will be making proactive business decisions based upon accurate and consistent information.
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Use Business Intelligence for strategic planning
Bookmaster's Business Intelligence can play a key part in the strategic planning process of your business providing timely and accurate information whether it's for marketing competition, customer retention, inventory control or financial modelling.
Business Intelligence allows you to analyse by various dimensions. Some of these include:
- Channels
Buying Group
Customer
Head office
Type of business
- Sales Force
Branch / State
Region
Rep – current
Rep – previous
- Order
Front/back list
Returns reason
Source of order
Type of order
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- Product
ISBN
Publisher
Subject
Packs & components
- Period
Daily
LTD (Life to Date)
MAT (Moving Annual Total)
Weekly
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Data warehouse
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software incorporates a data warehouse. The transactional information is extracted from the ERP and loaded into the data warehouse which is designed for easy analysis.
Pre-defined Templates and Views
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software contains over 175 pre-defined templates and any of the templates can be changed and saved by users, immediately providing literally thousands of ad hoc enquiries and reports. All of the predefined templates can also be used as the basis for additional user-defined enquiries or reports.
OLAP Viewer and ODBC Interface
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software has its own viewer as well as interfaces to any ODBC tool, for example, Excel or COGNOS.
The Bookmaster OLAP viewer provides easy data manipulation, data display and drill 'anywhere' capability. For example, you can:
- perform intuitive 'what-if' analysis and get immediate results
- change views to see information in a format that suits you
- drill anywhere (down, up or across) for more details to pinpoint problems
- use 'traffic lights' to highlight exceptions and areas of concern
- filter out irrelevant or unwanted information
- display the top or bottom 'N' in any column (eg, top 20 customers by return rates)
- save your own analysis for future use
- automatically post your results on the Internet
- choose from many types of graphical displays (eg, bar charts, pie charts, etc)
- export your results to Excel, Access, etc
- add columns as required (whether data, description or calculated fields)
- perform two dimensional analysis (ie, cross-tab analysis)
- use multi-level reporting (9 levels)
Administration Facilities
Bookmaster Business Intelligence Software has its own administration tools to ensure performance is monitored and optimised and allows high level security to be implemented.
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