Many
companies have embraced the notion of Balanced Scorecards
and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). To this
end many Business Intelligence (BI) providers are generally
pitching more or incrementally improved reporting of these
metrics. While better reporting has merits, one must understand
its limitations. Reports simply publish and track metrics
and views that are already known and thought to be important.
By definition they are limited to pre-programmed snapshots
unable to respond to changing business dynamics, complex
relationships or new opportunities.
When your KPI's are "in motion", you have to know more
than which way they are going. You need to understand
what's driving them. Reporting solutions can help you
with the direction but they simply don't support the analysis
to identify the cause. That's why PolyVista picks up where
reporting leaves you hanging.
PolyVista can greatly enhance the value of your existing
KPIs by enabling a multidimensional approach to analyzing
these performance indicators. Interactive capabilities
allow analysts to explore relative business performance
across numerous dimensions such as Time, Geography, Customers,
Business Units, Products, Services, etc. In addition to
interactive query, PolyVista provides automated analysis
in the form of algorithms designed to surface interesting
new patterns or anomalies. Advanced graphics can also
be used to visualize interesting features using multiple
measure models such as the PolyStar (3-d Radar plots)
as shown below. It is even possible to animate this graphic
using any other dimension like sequencing through time
or customer geographies.
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