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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Benefits

• Focus on today’s needs and take appropriate action. Regardless of the amount of data or number of applications in your organization, SAS Strategy Management lets you spot problems and opportunities quickly through customized filters, alerts and navigation. SAS software’s award-winning data integration provides a single repository for your enterprise, so you can be confident that performance information is consistent, regardless of who is viewing it.
• Align the use of resources to maximize profits. SAS Strategy Management lets you establish a hierarchy of dashboards and scorecards, diagram cause-and-effect relationships between metrics and build custom navigation to facilitate the communication necessary to move members of your organization toward common goals.
• Adapt quickly to market changes. With SAS Strategy Management, you can identify trends and patterns to determine why things happen and which issues happen more than once. The Web interface allows you to reach the widest audience possible in the shortest amount of time so your employees can adapt quickly to new strategies. Then you can monitor those strategies to be sure they achieve enterprise goals.

Features

Easy-to-use interface and scorecard creation

• All user interaction, including data entry, is through an easy-to-use, Web-based interface.
• Wizards drive the creation and maintenance of scorecards.
• Parent scorecards indicate underlying problems at the child scorecard level.
• Include hierarchies in user scorecards and copy data between various scorecards.
• Formula Editor includes more than 60 industry-standard SAS formulas to help you connect various projects, scorecards, time periods, element types and elements.
• Drill down and through any element in the interface to investigate problems.

Personalized display options

• Use customized images to indicate thresholds or range values, including KPI status.
• Users can create, modify and maintain many parameters, such as formulas, ranges and thresholds, in bulk.
• Users can receive customized alerts based on personal thresholds.
• Set the column order, content and format in any table view.
• Display any time period for any metric and choose to display values, colors, range icons or descriptive text.
• Choose from five display views, including simple table view, aggregate table view, dashboard graphs, diagrams and element association tables.

Data and metadata management

• Access data from virtually any source system, including Excel, Oracle, DB2, SAP and legacy systems.
• Maintain consistent metadata between SAS solutions with a common data store.
• Administer the technology underpinnings of SAS applications (i.e. metadata resources) using a centralized management framework.

Dynamic diagrams

• Create strategy maps and process flows using a diagram editor that reads from, and writes to, the underlying database dynamically.

 

Integration with Microsoft Office

• Use Microsoft Excel or Word for reporting and analysis from the SAS Strategy Management database.

Security and role-based authorization

• Establish security permissions for specific elements or rows, as well as templates, projects and scorecards.
• Assign one or more role to each user. Roles determine which actions a user can take.