Zap Business Intelligence

Analysis

Instant business analysis to uncover trends and issues

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Business analysis software is used for instant analysis of large amounts of data, regardless of where it is stored. Business analysis software is often used to reveal trends that might not be discovered easily by viewing standard reports – to identify trends, problems and opportunities.

Often known as “slice and dice” or OLAP (online analytical processing), business analysis lets you quickly investigate multiple dimensions, such as sales per product, per region, per year.

Zap Business Analysis Software

  • Enables users to explore multidimensional data in either graphical or tabular view from many different perspectives by filtering, drilling down, swapping, slicing and dicing.
  • Allows users to develop their own reports and save them to personal folders.
  • Enables users to email, schedule and subscribe to their reports.
  • Has a user-friendly drag and drop web interface. The intuitive "dimension viewer" shows dimensions, hierarchies, and measures into which the data is organised. Users can build highly complex reports with multiple levels of nesting simply by dragging and dropping from the dimension viewer.
  • Supports exception highlighting, thresholds, ranking, pagination, annotation, report sharing, exporting to Excel, and other important features.
  • Provides more than 21 different chart styles, including multi-measure charts to support actionable intelligence about why certain trends are occurring within your business.
  • Allows highly complex reports with multiple levels of nesting.
  • Allows any view to be saved back into portal for quick access by the user or for use in a dashboard.

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Examples of business analysis

Companies using business intelligence tailor the metrics used and business analysis performed to suit their individual needs. These analyses can be measured according to many different dimensions, such as trends over time or by geography. Some general types of common analyses performed by different departments:

Financial analysis

  • Sales
  • Profit
  • Cash flow
  • Stock value
  • Risk Asset utilisation
  • Average collection period

HR analysis

  • Employee turnover rate
  • Reduction in labour costs
  • Lost time incidents
  • Resource utilisation
  • Training rates – take up
  • Job satisfaction

Supply chain analysis

  • On time deliveries
  • Inventory shrinkage
  • Cycle time reduction
  • Quality of product
  • Supplier performance
  • Throughput per labour hour
  • Order backlog Order to cash cycle time

Sales and marketing analysis

  • Number of new customers per month versus leads generated
  • Acquisition cost for each customer
  • Sales performance against target
  • Sales pipeline by stage, product, sales person
  • Priority opportunities
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Campaign effectiveness and ROI
  • At-risk customers
  • Most and least profitable customers
  • Most and least profitable sales channels
  • Most and least profitable products
  • Cross selling opportunities

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