MIS OVERVIEW

Single Source of Truth

Key business information is usually stored in relational databases for each of your organisation’s transaction processing systems (ERP, CRM, Payroll, etc) which are not well suited to advanced planning and analysis. Furthermore these databases often have complex interactions, inconsistent hierarchies and data.

MIS DecisionWare manages the whole extraction, transformation and loading (ETL) process for data from multiple sources. Our solutions provide a consistent, reliable view of the business.

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One Platform for all Analytic Needs

All solutions based on MIS DecisionWare, whether out-of-the-box or custom designed, access the same software platform. That means fewer interfaces, less work, lower costs and better information for you.

MIS software is fully scalable, which means no matter what your needs, you are ensured a perfect fit. With MIS you only need to invest in the components that you need right now. As your needs change you can easily extend the functionality through additional custom solutions or packaged applications (e.g. enterprise planning). So the road to streamlining your corporate performance management is shorter than you ever thought possible!

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MIS and Microsoft

Excel; SQL Server Analysis Services; Reporting Services; Sharepoint Portal. If your company already banks on Microsoft technologies, you can leverage this investment to create best-of-breed solutions with MIS DecisionWare

Having worked together with Microsoft for the past decade, MIS belongs to its exclusive group of Gold Certified Partners specialising in Business Intelligence.

Custom solutions tailored to your organisation’s specific needs or out-of-the-box applications. With MIS, the choice is yours! MIS DecisionWare provides a central platform for gathering and modelling of business data, including:

Enterprise Planning - A pre-built application for sophisticated budgeting and forecasting that eliminates the risk and complexity associated with traditional spreadsheet approaches. It supports best practices like continuous budgeting, rolling forecasts, what-if scenario planning, unlimited versions and workflow controls.

Custom BI/Reporting - Do you need an intuitive reporting and analysis solution that focuses on quality, not quantity? Looking to build a tailored, self-service information management system for various target groups? MIS DecisionWare provides a highly configurable, intuitive environment for delivery of important information - anytime, anywhere!

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STRATEGIC PLANNING

Strategic planning software, budgeting and forecasting – all on one application for improved performance management

Planning and budgeting aligns the activities of departments and units within the organization. Managers need to understand how their operating plans relate to those of other managers. Part of the process of planning is aligning your budgeting and forecasting.

TM1 enables you to develop your strategic business planning collaboratively with your budgeting and forecasting across your enterprise. You can monitor your performance against the key indicators of your financial and operational plans. TM1 allows you to interpret past results and take the appropriate actions to achieve your desired outcomes. Fixing the whole process on one application will save you time, ensure consistency and improve your business performance management.

Key Features:

Excel and Web interfaces - Perform analysis, view reports, and update data using either Excel or Web user interfaces
A highly automated planning process with a pre-built financial database
Flexible real-time modeling to meet rapidly changing business plans. You enter your numbers, change them, and immediately see the changes to your budget and the possible impacts.
Workflow, including alerting, to manage the process and keep plans current
Standard templates for planning reports
Versioning so that as your planners, financial analysts and line-of-business managers prepare plans, your organization can work with several versions of a plan
A unified customizable application - addresses not only your planning but also your budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, reporting and analysis.

Benefits:

More time on valuable analysis while improving business performance across your organization
Elimination of the errors typically encountered when relying on linked spreadsheets for planning and management tasks
Fast time to value – among the top BI vendors, Applix rates first in implementation time and faster, more accurate reporting, according to the recent OLAP Survey 6.
Views into your planning at all levels with top-down and bottom up planning

Components:

TM1 Planning Manager with workflow to track progress on your plan’s status. This TM1 module provides control to the planning process by allowing plan managers to assign responsibility for portions of the plan, enabling contributors to submit their numbers, and empowering reviewers to accept or reject plans.
TM1 Planning Template, capturing best practices for planning, includes documentation to walk you through setting up a plan. With a variety of front ends such as Microsoft Excel, and Web and third party reporting tools, you have a single view of data and advanced capabilities for ad hoc reporting.
TM1 Web enables users to quickly and easily create real-time web-based reports and charts directly from Microsoft Excel
Turbo Integrator, TM1’s capability for data integration, streamlines the process of loading disparate corporate data by performing fast, flexible data loads
TM1 multi-cube OLAP engine with the horesepower for quickly developing plans, viewing possible scenarios, and for modeling complex, multifaceted business.