ERP End-User Reporting Implementation Services Package
Getting the Most From Your ERP Investment
You've invested plenty of money in ERP packages such as SAP and PeopleSoft to streamline your business processes. It stands to reason that plenty of key information resides in those packages – real-time information your managers need in order to make strategic decisions. In fact, for a complete view of the business, they need not just ERP information, but also the information locked in your other systems. The only way to accomplish that is to integrate ERP reporting into a sophisticated enterprise-level business intelligence system that can be used by intelligence workers and programmers alike.
WebFOCUS for ERP can access virtually any information source and deliver it in a variety of formatted reports to browsers, wireless devices, and e-mail addresses.
To help your company meet this challenge, Information Builders offers a flexible and scalable enterprise reporting solution to access your ERP packages as well as the rest of your enterprise data. This solution, together with our ERP Reporting Implementation package, combines to quickly give you full access to up-to-the-minute information and a clear window into your business operations.
The ERP Reporting Implementation Services Package provides you with a quick-start End User Reporting Foundation. Here's what the package includes:
- Report Templates – Choose from a list of WebFOCUS standard analytical report templates for ranking, metric division, business segmentation, dependency analysis, trending, and variance
- Configured Reports – Have our expert consultants design customized reports based on your unique business needs<
- Ad Hoc Requests – Allow users to create their own ad hoc requests from a business-oriented view of the data, and slice and dice data with simple graphical tools. You can also let them share information with others using common business formats such as Excel, Excel PivotTables, PDF, and HTML
- Scheduled and Alert-Based Reporting – Have our experts design scheduled or alert-based reports that automatically notify users via e-mail when critical business issues arise
Process
Step One: Needs Assessment
In the first step, we'll conduct a thorough and comprehensive needs assessment to gain an initial understanding of your ERP data accessibility and reporting issues, and ensure that we provide you with a solution that will best address them. To help reduce your risk, maximize your ROI, and minimize deployment time, we will:
- Assess your information requirements
- Define standard and customized reports
- Estimate ROI
- Create a detailed project plan
Step Two: Report Development
In step two, we'll create technical specifications, then develop and test the reports defined during the needs assessment. The result – a dynamic business discovery environment that will give your company a competitive advantage!
Step Three: Integration, Testing, and Deployment
After your reports have been developed, we'll conduct a formal review and user acceptance evaluation, and make any needed changes. We'll also supply documentation and knowledge transfer, to ensure that your technical staff can provide ongoing maintenance and support for your new reporting application.
As part of Operation Complete Client Satisfaction (OCCS), Information Builders performs a complimentary two-day Business Health Checkup to ensure satisfaction with the outcome of the project outlined above. The checkup occurs approximately 60 days after completion of the project and will be coordinated between Information Builders Consulting and the client.
