Benefits


Executive Dashboards




Trends and Challenges

 Executive Dashboard is a powerful web-based executive information system (EIS) that provides a consolidated view of an organization's performance, making it easy to:

  • Take advantage of a balanced scorecard approach to management.
  • Measure and understand an organization's key performance indicators and performance metrics.

Executive Dashboard provides a management tool for setting expectations for every organization at every level, with easy-to-understand reporting of the status of progress throughout the year. Their executive software measures set at each level roll up to higher indicators, creating a means for gauging the status of your organizational progress. Areas such as sales, production, efficiency, effectiveness, and product quality all affect an organization's financial performance.

SEEinfobiz provides industry-leading strategic and technical expertise to customers through all phases of an Enterprise Web deployment. SEEinfobiz provides full lifecycle strategy, design and implementation service, co-deployment services, portal performance tuning, upgrade services and a series of business and technical workshops aimed at helping companies build rich, high-ROI applications. Using the SEEinfobiz's Enterprise Web Deployment Methodology helps customers realize their portal vision, from establishing business value and building the technology foundation, to implementing the solution and driving enterprise adoption.

As part of the services offering, the dashboard solutions team engages with both business and technical teams to identify business drivers, processes and systems involved in the dashboard initiative.

An executive dashboard provides a simple way for executives to monitor key performance metrics from across the business. While dashboard ROI is difficult to quantify, SEEinfobiz have observed that the qualitative improvement in executives’ ability to drive strategy is often enormously valuable to a company.

To deploy an executive dashboard, organizations must not only provide basic database reporting, but also support drill-down into different systems integrated into the portal, and bring together key documents from across the business, with enterprise-wide search across many content repositories and the ability to collaborate on key issues.


This solution has been designed to help organizations with the following issues:  

  • Tardy and inaccurate access to key performance indicators
  • Inability to spot negative trends early
  • Human errors and eliminating duplicate data entry
  • Generating detailed reports to show emerging trends
  • Identifying operational efficiencies
Identifying and proactively applying preventive measures






Our Solution

With SEEinfobiz's Executive Dashboard solution, the executives access real-time performance metrics such as net sales, cash, operating expenses, headcount, and business milestones from the company’s back-end financial systems. The executive dashboard has enables the companies' leadership to identify potential problems early and save time and effort previously spent on analyzing hundreds of pages of financial data.

SEEinfobiz deploys an executive dashboard based on the SEEinfobiz's Corporate Portal to offer executives a real-time view of performance across its worldwide business units. From a single Web platform, over n number of executives can access real-time performance metrics such as net sales, cash, operating expenses, headcount, and business milestones from the company’s back-end financial systems, such as Oracle, DB2, SAP, Microsoft Excel, etc or a homegrown legacy system. Executives can also review a series of reports that show color-coded business unit metrics to indicate which units are on target for sales and budget. The dashboard is built to provide information that is actionable, forward looking and diagnostic to help companies manage its worldwide business more effectively.

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With SEEinfobiz’s Executive Dashboard solution, executives can have a single dashboard access to sales reports, financial, operational, and purchasing data, competitor news and collaborative workspaces. It is an Enterprise wide Web solution that could adapt to the company's growth, increase employee productivity and collaboration, and improve traditional industry processes.

SEEinfobiz's Executive Dashboard solution includes:

  • Sales bookings and forecasts
  • Monthly close data compared against plan
  • Marketing programs results and costs
  • Upcoming company events and press releases
  • Company announcements
  • Customer call center queues and satisfaction data
  • Research and development schedules
  • Inventory levels and manufacturing production updates
  • Competitive intelligence briefing, with news articles and analyses
  • Systems availability and up-time statistics
  • Employee attrition rates and training schedules

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Along with the above mentioned templates, building on the best practices gained through engagements, SEEinfobiz is now offering a structured program to help companies deploy a variety of dashboards including:

  • Executive Dashboards – to compare quantitative data to enterprise-wide objectives, for better accountability
  • CIO Dashboards – to monitor the availability of key systems throughout the organization, for better service
  • Finance Dashboards – to monitor financial data from operating units, providing greater transparency to executives and board members and timelier month- and quarter-end closes
  • Sales Dashboards – to monitor sales metrics across regions and operating units, allowing companies to improve forecasting and react to shortfalls earlier
  • Customer Support Dashboards – to highlight call center metrics, customer issues and customer satisfaction data for better customer service
  • Production Dashboards – to contrast real-time production figures with projections and averages, for better operational visibility and agility.




Benefits:

  • SEEinfobiz’s executive dashboard is giving executives increased control over business direction and results.
  • The executive dashboard has enabled the company’s leadership to identify potential problems early and save time and effort previously spent on analyzing hundreds of pages of financial data.
  • Data could be collected from various backend sources and reports are delivered through the portal, eliminating the need for management to learn and open several different applications.
  • An executive can log-in to one Enterprise Web site and access not just an executive dashboard or scorecard, but all the other Web applications he or she needs to run the business, avoiding the cost and hassle of separate sites with separate security.
  • The new applications help organizations actively monitor performance, respond more quickly to new opportunities and potentially, gain competitive advantage.
  • Executive Dashboard helps you:
    • Set performance goals at each level.
    • Track key performance indicators.
    • Establish measures and criteria for monitoring progress.
    • Identify, track, trend and correct problems.
    • Design and print key performance indicator reports.
    • Understand your organization's financial health.
    • Meet regulatory requirements