One of the most imposing hurdles to successful business management is the inaccessibility of up-to-date information by those who need it fast to make important business decisions. Decision makers require this information and financial analysis to understand their companies’ profitability, how they are measuring against plan, which products or regions are most profitable and how best to lead the business. Every user has individual analysis and reporting needs so the delivery process must be adapted accordingly and incorporate analytic capabilities where appropriate.

Cartesis Analytics combines intuitive visualization experiences with powerful analytic capabilities to meet the diverse needs of executives, managers and operational users. It provides financial intelligence with zero latency yet is simple to use and deploy quickly.

• Intuitive visualization experiences for executives, managers and operational users

• Powerful and intuitive analytics

• Open and standards-based

Intuitive visualization experiences for executives, managers and operational users

 

With dashboards, key performance indicators (KPIs), scorecards and web- and Excel-based analysis capabilities, Cartesis Analytics enables organizations to easily and quickly deploy the trusted information from Cartesis applications to large numbers of distributed users.

Executive dashboards
Often executives like to see a complete view of their business in a single dashboard where they can drill down to access more detailed information. Cartesis Analytics dashboards provide executives and managers with a clear and immediately comprehensible visual representation so that they can see how their business is performing at a glance. Dashboards can be created directly by business users without intervention from IT.

KPI visualization including scorecards
KPIs are presented with a value, target, trend and status indicator and may be visualized as gauges, thermometers and arrows. Typical KPIs include profitability metrics such as operating and pre-tax margin, cash-related metrics, measures of liquidity or leverage, or other financial metrics, but can also include non-financial metrics such as ratio analysis on headcount. KPIs can be grouped together in dashboards to provide scorecards that can be rolled out on a large scale to give people a consistent view of their performance against goals. This facilitates alignment between day-to-day operations and corporate strategy.

Financial analysis from a web browser or Excel
Financial analysts require intuitive yet powerful analysis capabilities. With a variety of drill-down and drill-through options, Cartesis Analytics provides users with the means to analyze data to isolate specific organizational dynamics, trends and events, pinpointing the triggers and sources of significant activities. A synchronized graphical view can be presented at the same time as the numbers to further increase productivity. Cartesis Analytics allows users to access information from any combination of dashboards, web-based analysis, Excel and even PowerPoint.
 

Powerful and intuitive analytics
 

Cartesis Analytics provides powerful and intuitive analytic capabilities while ensuring that information will always be presented as users expect. A variety of drill-down and drill-through options as well as sophisticated exception monitoring allow the user to investigate performance and identify specific organizational dynamics, trends and events and the drivers behind them.

Financial intelligence
Cartesis Analytics understands financial information. Users can interact with and explore the information with the knowledge that the financial data they are exploring will always be presented as users expect — for example, Cartesis Analytics recognizes that variance calculations between actual and plan or current-year and prior-year financial data must be treated differently for income statement accounts and balance sheet accounts. With built-in intelligence, currency calculation and inter-company eliminations, handled as part of the consolidation process, are available for analysis and are correctly calculated without special intervention. This ensures that users are always looking at the correct data.

Sophisticated exception monitoring
When analyzing overall performance, issues at lower levels can be concealed by good overall performance, rendering manual detection of improvement opportunities time-consuming. By automatically alerting users to exceptions that result in missing high-level targets as well as exceptions at a lower level that would be otherwise hidden, Cartesis Analytics considerably speeds both financial and non-financial analysis.

Analytical reporting
Cartesis Analytics provides a single, unified and user-friendly interface that enables users to move seamlessly between discovery and formatting. This prevents users from wasting valuable time and effort manually reworking data into the required format and actively encourages further insight and action by allowing them to pursue new avenues of inquiry as soon as they are identified.
 

Open and standards-based

Cartesis Analytics applications are built on an open, standards-based infrastructure that can access statutory, operational, financial and non-financial information including industry benchmarks. Zero latency enables earlier visibility into results, thus reducing closing cycles.

Zero-latency finance
Enterprise stakeholders are requiring more analysis, based on complex models and in shorter time periods. Cartesis Analytics delivers information to users on a real-time basis with information updates occurring automatically from the Cartesis Integrated Data Model. With faster closing cycles, Cartesis Analytics gives back what every finance department requires: more time. By providing immediate availability of performance management data during financial closing periods, organizations are able to perform more in-process analytics. With this information, enterprises can respond more rapidly to business events and focus on profitable products and regions and better overall business planning.

Access to information beyond Cartesis applications
Cartesis Analytics can be used to access data sources outside of Cartesis applications. Any source that can be accessed by Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services can be accessed from Cartesis Analytics, including the Oracle relational database and many other popular data sources. This enables wider visibility to other key data necessary for performance reporting and analysis such as top customers, key HR metrics and even external benchmark information against industry peers through Cartesis’ partnership with EDGAR Online.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform
Cartesis Analytics is based on the Microsoft SQL Server 2005 platform, resulting in a simple, elegant, standards-based infrastructure that any IT department will be comfortable with. Unlike applications that depend on legacy and proprietary technologies, you can be confident that any investment you make in Cartesis Analytics is based on a modern technology that’s here to stay. It’s the safe choice.