| With dashboards, scorecards and web- and | | | | their business,” said Crispin Read, CMO of |
| Excel-based analysis capabilities, Cartesis Analytics | | | | Cartesis. “With Cartesis 10, if a user spots an |
| combines intuitive visualization with powerful analysis | | | | unexpected condition, action is a mouse click away. If |
| to meet the diverse business performance | | | | plans do not fit current business conditions, they can |
| management needs of executives, managers and | | | | immediately be changed. If an entity submits new |
| operational users, all of whom need timely | | | | actuals during a financial close, they are available for |
| performance data in easy-to-digest formats to | | | | analysis and re-forecasting in real time.” |
| facilitate financial consolidation, planning, budgeting and | | | | In addition, Cartesis Analytics can be configured to |
| forecasting. | | | | access data sources outside of Cartesis applications. |
| A fully integrated component of the Cartesis 10 | | | | Companies can embed Cartesis Analytics within |
| software suite, Cartesis Analytics shares a single | | | | Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server and |
| database with Cartesis Finance and Planning | | | | Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005. |
| applications and can access that database to pull in | | | | This flexibility and smooth integration allows users to |
| data from either application. There’s no wait, as | | | | remain within familiar working environments, |
| Cartesis 10’s zero-latency capabilities deliver | | | | promotes rapid adaptation, and encourages |
| real-time business performance management data to | | | | application use and collaboration with colleagues. |
| Cartesis Analytics users, enabling earlier visibility into | | | | And as a result of Cartesis’ unique partnership |
| results, thus reducing closing and planning cycles. The | | | | with EDGAR Online, Cartesis Analytics customers can |
| suite’s financial intelligence ensures that conflicting | | | | benchmark their own actual and forecast figures |
| data and other discrepancies, such as different | | | | against competitive and peer-group BPM data. This |
| currencies, are standardized so that users get | | | | enables them to identify areas where they are falling |
| consistent information in the manner that they | | | | behind industry peers or competitors, such as |
| expect. | | | | revenue growth, gross profit margin, inventory turns, |
| Real-Time Analytics, Inside and Out | | | | cash position and key ratios such as performance |
| Cartesis Analytics offers a variety of drill-down and | | | | activity and liquidity. |
| drill-through options as well as sophisticated exception | | | | “Most business performance management |
| monitoring to allow users to investigate business | | | | systems are too internally focused or are unable to |
| performance and identify specific organizational | | | | deliver market data in real time to the people who |
| dynamics, trends and events and the drivers behind | | | | need it as the basis for better decision making,” |
| them. Business users can create Cartesis Analytics | | | | remarked Trevor Walker, vice president of |
| applications without IT intervention and access | | | | marketing, Cartesis North America. “Cartesis |
| statutory, operational, financial and non-financial | | | | Analytics puts this critical benchmarking data in the |
| information including industry benchmarks. | | | | hands of users with the same rich set of features |
| “Traditional business intelligence software | | | | and zero latency with which it delivers internal data |
| solutions provide scorecards and dashboards that let | | | | for true externally focused performance |
| users observe the static, historical performance of | | | | management. |