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		<title>Get a Reporting, Analytics, and Planning Edge with Allevo</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2016 14:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>By Gunnar Steindorsson Success Story - global manufacturer with multiple lines of business and dozens of facility locations . With Allevo, they reduced their planning cycle time by 60-65% by eliminating steps that were not adding value. Time previously spent on tedious data extraction, transformation, loading and reconciliation was now available for more value-add  [...]</p>
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<p>By<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunnar-steindorsson-142b068b?authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=hQLS&amp;locale=en_US&amp;trk=tyah&amp;trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A322248002%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-6-6%2CtarId%3A1468334970465%2Ctas%3Agunnar"> Gunnar Steindorsson</a></p>
<p><strong><u>Success Story &#8211; </u></strong> <strong><u>global manufacturer</u></strong> with multiple lines of business and dozens of facility locations .</p>
<p>With Allevo, they <em>reduced their planning cycle time by 60-65%</em> by eliminating steps that were not adding value. Time previously spent on tedious data extraction, transformation, loading and reconciliation was now available for more value-add analysis and optimization efforts.</p>
<p>Moreover<em>, better data quality</em> and timeliness <em>has improved reporting</em>, allowing for<em> better analysis and insight,</em> which ultimately <em>boosts overall business performance</em>. By managing what matters, the result is measurable and valid to your business.</p>
<p><strong><u>Success Story Food &amp; Beverage Conglomerate –</u></strong></p>
<p>The results achieved covered both a <em>cycle time reduction of over 50%</em> as well as <em>significant improvement to data and process quality</em>. As a result, this customer was able to move from annual to quarterly – and in some areas monthly – planning, since <em>Allevo’s real-time bi-directional integration with SAP </em>eliminated the lengthy and cumbersome ETL process.</p>
<p>This real-time integration also allows planners to see how certain changes affect the results in financial statements, something that was impossible before. <em>Planners now have the ability to create multiple budgets quickly and can model scenarios with different underlying assumptions</em>.</p>
<p>Finally, Allevo was able to provide the flexible reporting needed to cover the needs of all eight business units as well as satisfy some pretty tricky legal and regulatory requirements.</p>
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<p><strong>The Reporting , Analytics, and Planning Edge</strong></p>
<p>Over 64,000 companies rely on SAP to manage their business operations, making it the most widely used ERP platform in the world. If you work in finance for one of these companies, you know how powerful and effective SAP is. If your role includes budget planning and forecasting, you can also attest to how difficult and painful this process can be in SAP. A transactional system, SAP can make it difficult to aggregate and consolidate data, create projections, and deliver views able to provide the insight needed for effective analysis and decision-making. Moreover, the system can be very inflexible and its user interface far from intuitive.</p>
<p><strong><em>This is where Allevo comes in.</em></strong> Allevo takes the tedium out of complex budgeting, reporting and analytics processes, allowing professionals to work within their familiar planning environment – such as Excel worksheet – while providing real-time access to all business data within SAP. An enterprise-level budget planning, forecasting, and reporting solution, Allevo integrates directly with SAP to provide planners with easy access to all data needed for effective planning and controlling.</p>
<p>Far more than just a data integration tool, however, Allevo also provides well-structured processes and workflows so users can keep track of budgeting processes and efficiently map even complex budgeting structures.  Thanks to the optimization Allevo provides:</p>
<ul>
<li>decision makers are better informed,</li>
<li>the workload of the planning team is greatly reduced, and</li>
<li>the overall data and analysis quality vastly improves.<strong> <a href="http://blogs.amickbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Allevo-Smart-Financials.jpg" data-caption=""><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-291" src="http://blogs.amickbrown.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Allevo-Smart-Financials-300x169.jpg" alt="Allevo - Smart Financials" width="300" height="169"></a></strong></li>
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<p><strong>Risk-Free Trial</strong></p>
<p>Confident in our  technology and value proposition, Allevo offers prospective clients not only customized demos but also a one-day workshop and 60-day trial of their solution free of charge. This makes the decision for Allevo virtually risk-free since clients can test the software in their own environment, using their own data, processes, and planning worksheets to ensure it meets their needs before they commit to a purchase.</p>
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		<title>Data Driven Decisions improve your business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2015 16:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Fact Based Decision Making For many companies the first reporting and analytics question that they ask is, “What specific items should my company measure?” However, what you measure should be based on how to get results from your data that make measurable change in the organization. The first question really is, “What are my business  [...]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><u>Fact Based Decision Making</u></strong></p>
<p>For many companies the first reporting and analytics question that they ask is, “What specific items should my company measure?” However, what you measure should be based on how to get results from your data that make measurable change in the organization. The first question really is, “What are my business goals and what measurable components can help me achieve or miss this goal?</p>
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<p><strong>Some examples are:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>Churn reduction</li>
<li>Retirement possibilities in the next year.</li>
<li>Employees that leave in less than a year</li>
<li>Departments with the highest attrition</li>
<li>Supply chain service improvement</li>
<li>JIT miscalculations by department or location</li>
<li>Customer service complaints, late deliveries to customers</li>
<li>Staffing variations and what affect this has on production<strong><u> </u></strong></li>
</ol>
<p><strong><u>Why fact based is important… </u></strong></p>
<p>Another huge common occurrence in the reporting world is decisions made without trackable, measureable fact. Unbelievably, companies still make decisions with historical process, experience, and their “gut” to some degree.</p>
<p>With the availability of big data, your competitors are not only going to have access to information about themselves, but also about your customers and your ability to perform. If this data is not used well by your company – you will lose business.</p>
<p>So how exactly does your company aggregate data, produce reports, or glean insight to meet goals? If you are like the vast majority of companies out there, it is a big data dump into a spreadsheet that is picked through and interpreted by the individual who requested it.</p>
<p>Many have very slick Reporting solutions, but they are not leveraging them to the full potential – not by a long shot. Why is this? The pervasive gaps are that people are creatures of habit and continue to want to report like they have always done and change management/training is not factored in. The poor IT Manager put in charge of the BI project is inundated with data dump requests and help requests on-going.</p>
<p>Circling back to Data Driven Decisions, the very first things that must be carefully and completely determined are:</p>
<ol>
<li>What are the challenges that prevent me/my company from beating the competition, increasing revenue, operating smoothly, etc?</li>
<li>What people drive the resolution of these challenges?</li>
<li>What data and report metrics do these users need to show the golden road to overcoming the challenges?</li>
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<p><em>Beginning with what decisions need to be made, which people will drive goal attainment, then what data and metrics will roll up to an answer – the first big hurdle to Business Intelligence success will have been overcome.</em></p>
<p>For more on this subject, watch this space… <a href="http://blogs.amickbrown.com/%20%20%20">blogs.amickbrown.com/  </a></p>
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