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Dashboards

Think about today's cacophony of information; getting your arms around it can be daunting. You and others in your organization likely spend too much time finding, organizing and presenting information.

A dashboard is the savvy knowledge workers command central. It rolls up information from an array of internal and external sources in a cohesively organized, graphically meaningful way. You get just the information you need to effectively monitor your business, make more informed decisions, and drive the actions that bring success.

Carefully defined dashboards open your world to opportunity. Concurrency has deep dashboard experience. We're diligent about analyzing the business behind the dashboard. We work with you to clearly identify your business requirements, and apply effective project method to ensure a solid outcome. Your dashboard will be a power-tool that adds real value.

Concurrency creates dashboards that:

• Provide executive access to key performance indicator information (KPI's)
• Illustrate trends in key business areas to see where time and attention is most needed
• Share at-a-glance information that drill-down into further reporting detail
• Monitor industry news, competitor news, recruiting/employment postings, SEC filings, trademark & patent updates, etc.
• Show real-time shifts in key business performance metrics
• Provide visual cues about important internal or external forces

Scorecards

Effective strategies. Successful companies develop and implement actionable and effective strategies that are tied to measurable goals. These companies also ensure the entire organization understands and conforms to them. And, when necessary, change is managed to properly align the organization.

Companies that have a differentiating advantage above their competitors, however, use tools such as Scorecards to measure their progress toward the complete implementation of these strategies. Concurrency can help you measure, monitor, and manage business performance. Concurrency's Scorecard efforts fully support the Balanced Scorecard methodology. They a) provide a means for consolidating analysis data from multiple sources, b) define and measure performance metrics and c) let users visualize performance relative to defined business strategies.

Important features of Concurrency's Scorecard solutions include:

• Scorecard Web Parts: Visualize scorecards and KPIs within a cogent, integrated portal environment.
• Scorecard Builder: Capture unique business needs in a fully Web-based scorecard management and administration environment.
• Strategy Map Builder: Create a visual representation of your business strategy with visual indicators driven by actual data.
• Data Sources module: Centralize disparate source systems to enable advanced reporting functionality, such as drill-down and drill-up.
• Data Entry capabilities: For metrics not captured in existing systems, you can easily automate data collection and management.
• Scorecard Engine: Manage scorecard definitions and data source mappings through a centralized engine that can be exposed as a Web service and extended by partners.

Reporting Services

In today's economy, companies cannot afford to squander their information and people assets. It's more common to hear customers who "want to do more with less" or "focus resources on the most profitable activities". However, often employees do not have access to the vital information that they need to make timely decisions, resulting in missed opportunities. Effective reporting services enable the creation, management, and delivery of both traditional, paper-oriented reports and interactive, Web-based reports.

Concurrency Reporting Service solutions support advanced processing features such as charts and graphs, matrix, drill-down, drill-through, sub-reports, forms, and more; features that go beyond traditional reporting and deliver interactive analysis capabilities. Concurrency Reporting Services solutions offers best-in-class business intelligence solutions developed specifically to address the needs of your business. This low cost, high-impact solution minimizes the intensive time report requirements needed to power the organization, such as:

• Desktop reporting. Organizations often use Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Access to develop manual reports and distribution processes.
• Custom reports. Developing custom reports using a development tool is a time-intensive operation and modifications must be made by highly skilled staff.
• Third-party solutions. Often third-party reporting solutions are not as flexible as desired to meet the changing capabilities of today's rapidly changing organization.
• Geographically dispersed users. Decentralized organizations that use desktop reporting systems or custom reports often describe issues with distributing updated reports in a timely manner.

Concurrency Reporting Services solutions provide the ability to access information from a variety of other sources. As a result, customers enjoy benefits such as:

• Reporting Services processes reports centrally and distributes them through e-mail and over the Web.
• Integration with Microsoft Office System enables further analysis using familiar tools.
• A rich development environment that enables custom capabilities without custom code.
• Quick time-to-market through ease of integration and comprehensive capabilities.
• Integration with business applications enables managers to react proactively.
• Lower administrative costs through the elimination of manual data assembly.
• An attractive cost when compared with competitive solutions such as Crystal Enterprise.
• Reporting Services can provide a quicker report development time with a much shorter learning curve as well as a full report-processing environment.

Data Management

With the speed of business ever increasing, companies must find ways of capturing and analyzing business data in the most efficient and timely manner. Concurrency provides complete, end-to-end data management reporting and analysis solution to help improve organizations by providing business insight to all employees leading to better, faster, more relevant decisions.

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