SAS® Performance Management Solutions
SAS Performance management refers to how an organization leverages its assets (people, money and technology) to achieve short-, medium- and long-term strategic goals. Through an approach intended to improve value creation, performance management requires you to:
- Control cost without sacrificing future growth objectives: Given the nature of current incentives (meeting quarterly or annual targets), the challenge is to meet short-term targets while preserving strategic growth initiatives.
- Understand what drives cost and profit (or value): Without this understanding, managers are unlikely to allocate resources appropriately and know where to make improvements. At best, it may generate suboptimal results; at worst, it could inadvertently and irreparably destroy value.
- Improve agility: Organizations that can identify opportunities and threats more easily than their competitors, understand the implications, update strategy quickly and then execute that strategy consistently across the organization will be the winners.
- Identify and respond to environmental, social and economic risks and opportunities: A focus on the “triple bottom line” of people, profit and planet drives increased brand value through innovation, improves internal efficiencies and accountability, and engenders the loyalty of consumers, employees and other stakeholders.
Driving profitable growth through activity-based management
SAS® Activity-Based Management is an analytic application that models business processes to determine cost, profitability and drivers. With this solution, organizations can make informed decisions that streamline processes, deliver revenue growth and reduce costs across the organization. By providing process, cost and profitability insights, SAS Activity-Based Management reveals how unprofitable customers may be destroying up to 400 percent of your net profit – and helps you understand how to prevent this.
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Understand and manage profitability at the most detailed level
SAS® Profitability Management provides accurate cost and profit calculations based on the rule-driven allocation of expenses and revenue down to the individual transaction. By providing insight into profitability factors, the solution helps decision makers focus on opportunities for profitability improvement – such as preventing unprofitable customers from destroying up to 400% of your net income.
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Improve the accuracy and timeliness of financial plans, budgets and reports
Overview
SAS® Financial Management is a comprehensive solution for enterprise planning, budgeting, consolidation and reporting. With a proprietary calculation engine and accounting logic, this remarkable solution consolidates planning or historical information on demand, ensuring that the latest information is always available for decision makers and regulatory agencies.
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Improve performance with a powerful, Web-based solution for dashboards, scorecards, and strategy maps
SAS® Strategy Management helps organizations manage their strategy and supporting measures and initiatives to build alignment and better execute on their goals and objectives. From this application, business managers can track progress against objectives, understand underperformance and impacts, prepare for the future and take action when needed. SAS Strategy Management is a Web-based application for strategy management including the design, building and management of scorecards, dashboards and diagrams, including strategy maps.
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Predict and respond to environmental, social, and economic risks and opportunities
Organizational performance now requires sustainability measures across social, environmental and economic factors, which in turn requires the vital steps of integrating and analyzing data to achieve new goals and transform internal organizational cultures.
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Analyze the work force to optimize human capital
SAS® Human Capital Management helps organizations analyze workforce strengths and vulnerabilities, while surfacing opportunities and strategies that allow business leaders to proactively manage human capital. By providing a holistic view of your work force, the solution gives you the consistent and accurate answers needed for strategic decision making.
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