The Excel Overhead
Many Construction and House Building Companies are overly reliant on Excel to provide operational and management reports. SPS are the Construction Business Intelligence and Reporting experts. We enable clients to reduce the Excel “overhead” by providing data directly to the end user in the format they want at a click of a button.
Can you afford not use accurate, up to date data to drive your business decisions?
Current Situation:
- The data in your ERP System is not easily available and you are heavily reliant on Excel to collate, process and produce key company reports.
- Some of your data exists outside of the ERP solution
- Numerous spreadsheets are in place that result in data governance being difficult to implement and maintain.
- Reporting across all areas of the business is difficult and often sporadic due to the time and resource required to generate the reports.
As a result it is difficult to see a timely and accurate view of your business performance.
Solution: InsightsControl
Data is extracted from your ERP System into an Azure SQL data warehouse. The “operational” based system data is then transformed, in line with Business logic, validation and business requirements, to create a series of datasets that can drive all the reporting and Business Intelligence requirements across the business.
This single governed data source then becomes the source for all end user reports and dashboards.
InsightsControl™ is built on the Microsoft Fabric Platform. Using our extensive knowledge and expertise in Construction and data, we gave built a suite of Power BI reports that will provide key insights that will help shape the future decision making and then help to monitor and control the results of these decisions.
Result:
InsightsControl™- Visuals – Is a suite of Power BI Reports and dashboards that provide key metrics and actionable insights, available to business users at the click of a button.
The reports are available to PC’s, tablets or mobile devices. Users can consume and interrogate the data to suit their own requirements, secure in the knowledge that the data is being driven from a governed datasource.
From a senior management perspective, full transparency of the build up of reported figures becomes available and thus improve process and data governance across the organisation.
Key Benefits:
The key benefits of implemeting InsightsControl™ are:
- It will increase transparency and control across your organisation by providing automated delivery of key business metrics at the click of button.
- It will speed up the “time to market” for delivering end user reports and dashboards across your organisation.
- It will provide robust, scalable and supportable end user solutions.
- All end user solutions are based on collective Industry wide knowledge and best practice.
- It will leverage the data held across your entire data landscape.
- It will optimise data and process governance by creating an automated transparent reporting process.
- It will reduce the use of Excel and current expensive internal overhead needed to produce reports.
- It is backed by specialist dedicated analytics support program, tailored for your organisation, to include solution updates and version controls, as part of your onward analytics.
- As with any software solution it will save you time and money against trying to do it internally yourself.
- It will help you move from a position of measurement to one of control.
SPS believe that the size and scale of a Business should never be a barrier to good Analytics and Business Intelligence!