Zap Business Intelligence Software

Version 5.3 release

Version 5.3 of Zap Business Intelligence software is focused on improved usability, with significant enhancements to the user interface, dimension browser and installer. New functionality includes auditing capability and modules for relational reporting and analysis via an Excel® interface.

Why choose Zap Business Intelligence software?

Zap Business Intelligence software offers the advantages of new generation technology – powerful, simple and practical.

User friendly and designed to be used from the CEO to the shop floor, Zap Business Intelligence software requires minimal training to use.

Web-based with everything you need in one portal. Zap Business Intelligence solutions contains all your BI functionality – performance dashboards, business analysis, business reporting and performance scorecards – with no software to install or maintain for end users.

Low maintenance for your IT department. As a web-based BI solution, Zap is fast to roll out and maintain.

Highly scalable to grow with your business. Zap Business Intelligence solutions are used by small to medium businesses, right through to enterprises with thousands of users in multiple geographic locations.

Analyse any type of data from your business systems. Zap Business Intelligence software takes data from any system, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Finance, Payroll, Sales, Manufacturing, Point-of-Sale, and Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and presents a unified picture of how your business is doing.

Microsoft-based and affordable. You don’t pay for proprietary tools, and you can make use of your existing investment in Microsoft® technology.

A total BI solution for all your business intelligence and performance management needs. Zap Business Intelligence software can provide your single source of management information and reports.

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Benefits for your business

Zap Business Intelligence software unites your business with a common picture for understanding and improving corporate performance. Your business can benefit in many ways:

Focus your business through a centralised information portal. Zap Business Intelligence solutions allows you to define business objectives that are visible and measurable across the whole company. This brings your plans and budgets to life with a central system that can be reviewed hourly, daily, weekly – not just once a month or once a quarter.

Proactively detect issues and opportunities at the earliest possible stage. When objectives aren’t met, the system will alert you and allow you to analyse, understand and report on the underlying problems.

Provide a shared understanding of performance across the organisation. Present a clear, consistent view of corporate information to help all your employees make better decisions and improve performance. Improve the way your business accesses, analyses and presents one of your most valuable assets – your data.

Reduce manual reports and processes with automation. Many businesses spend a huge amount of staff time and money on creating manual reports and spreadsheets, particularly for end-of-month financial reports. Zap Business Intelligence software lets you automate the reporting process in a central system that can be accessed across the business.

Provide self-service information. Managers and executives can access information anytime, anywhere. No longer do they need to make successive requests through others who may have alternate priorities or limited resources at peak times.

Enable fact-based decision-making. With accurate company information at their fingertips, employees at all levels can make more informed decisions to maximise performance.

Improve data accuracy and minimise errors. Offline, decentralised reports and spreadsheets are prone to errors that can affect your business performance. Find a smarter way of working by using an online, automated and centralised system for reporting and improve the accuracy of your reporting and analysis.

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Benefits for your department

Executive managers: Once the CEO has set the vision, budget and plan for the year, key performance indicators can be set and communicated across the business to provide a tangible measure of success. Executive dashboards provide visibility into every department, and scorecards indicate how the business is achieving against plan, with any problem areas highlighted immediately. Managers can drill down further to analyse issues and make more informed decisions. With this top level view of the business available at any time, board reports become easy, automated and accurate.

Finance: The finance team streamlines the reporting process to cut down manual administration and the inconsistencies of spreadsheets. At any time, finance can easily produce snapshots of the company’s financial position, such as accounts receivable, profit analysis, cash flow, inventory turn, credit control and expenses. Manual reporting processes are reduced, leaving the finance team available to focus on strategic work and advanced analysis.

Sales: Sales managers use dashboards and reports to analyse how the team is performing against forecast, which opportunities to focus on, how each member of the sales team is tracking, and whether the forecast needs to be adjusted. This view of the world can be shared with the sales team to ensure a common understanding and focus on performance.

Manufacturing and distribution: These departments can better forecast demand and allocate resources, with more visibility into the rest of the business. Advanced analysis can highlight inefficiencies, report on cost effectiveness, and examine vendor performance.

Marketing: The marketing department can better respond to pressures for improved reporting and justification of marketing spend. Marketing managers can analyse campaign effectiveness and lead generation, and report concrete statistics to management. On-the-fly analysis also allows campaigns to be monitored and adjusted according to results. Better access to customer information enables advanced profiling of customer segments and profitability, and for campaigns to be better researched and tailored.

IT: The IT department can support the business’ reporting needs and provide secure, consistent, reliable information throughout the whole company and to partners and customers. IT can standardise on a single business intelligence and reporting tool to streamline administration, cost of ownership, training and maintenance.

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