Activant Business Analyzer

An Executive Information System

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Activant Business Analyzer (ABA) allows you to develop and quickly customize trending reports for your business. Through the familiar Windows interface, you can easily and quickly develop the right charts, graphs, and reports for your business without learning complex reporting tools.

Capabilities
  • Provides a snapshot of your business health
  • Summarizes key performance business indicators
  • Provides analytical drill down capabilities into the details behind the business metrics
  • Customize screens and reports
  • Create alerts that notify you of events occurring within your business
Benefits
  • Examine key areas of your business so you can make quicker, more informed decisions
  • Get information delivered the way you want it, when you want it
  • Measure the health of your business with both standard and tailored key performance indicators

Trend Analysis

Analyzing data trends is very important when forecasting future business needs or spotting potential hazards. Equally important is the ability to track actual versus target numbers that you establish. Using the features available in ABA, you can drill down into the data to more deeply analyze details and determine why trends occur. You can save the information for further analysis or share these trends with your management team via e-mail or other electronic medium available to you. From an executive standpoint, you are able to restrict access to any pieces of information that you do not wish your employees to view. For example, you might show your sales department sales figures, but you might not want to show them financial information related to your business.

As an executive, you need to look at how your business is doing at a high level, while having other critical information at your fingertips. By simply pointing and clicking or dragging and dropping fields within ABA, you can collect the information that you want and tailor your screens and reports.

ABA features a detailed reporting environment that allows you to drill down into specific information. For example, you can start with a report showing overall sales by calendar or fiscal period. To better cross-examine this data, you can easily indicate to break this report down by salesperson, customer, item, or a wealth of other measures available to you. This allows you to evaluate high and low performers, determine the impact certain factors have on your bottom line, and drill into the root causes of concerns.

Of course, everyone has their own preferred way to view data. Whereas one executive might want to look at numbers in an Excel spreadsheet, you might be a visual learner, preferring to see company statistics in a pie chart or bar graph. This is not an issue, as exporting data to Excel from ABA is accomplished by a click of a button. Once you create a desirable report, you can save its format for future use. BA refreshes the view on your PC or laptop when you boot up or connect remotely each morning.

Quick Views

All the information you collect in the ABA database is pulled from your Prophet 21 solution and presented in an attractive, intuitive display. At one glance you can keep tabs on sales, inventory, orders, AR, AP, and POs. You can drill down to get the detailed information that you need to drive your business.

From powerful data management and reporting capabilities, to a streamlined and user-friendly interface, ABA will improve your business processes while making it easier and more cost-effective to better serve your customers.

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