Business Need

Portals & Management Reporting

Automate and streamline your reporting process.

You need to summarize performance information for various stakeholders—including the board, the management team, and customers—on a regular basis. In addition, information, in a variety of numeric, graphical, and textual forms, must be sourced from a number of people, business systems, spreadsheets, and documents. It used to be that these summaries were laboriously constructed using spreadsheets and word processors, which often limited the depth and quality of the information available, and subjected you to significant collation risks. Not anymore.

information sharing made easy.

Automatically assemble briefing books, board reports, management report packs, management dashboards, or online “planning and performance portals” with our CorPortfolio module. Using CorPortfolio, you can:

• Automate and streamline the period-ending reporting process.
  
• Reduce the cost of manual assembly.
  
• Leverage investment in existing information systems, such as: ERP, HR, project management, quality, and incident systems; portals; various documents; databases; spreadsheets; and BI applications.
  
• Define your requirements once in the provided scheduler, and automatically refresh data on-demand.
  
• Configure reports and dashboards without programming knowledge.
  
• Create printed or online summaries—containing data from disparate sources—and make them available to stakeholders regularly.

Risk Management

monitor and manage the threats and obstacles to achieving business strategy.

All organizations face some degree of risk, but many fail to put a risk management plan in place. In order to effectively reduce risk, you must:

• Assess, mitigate and manage risks.
• Link incidents—hits and near misses—to risk management plans.
• Manage the financial impact of risk management.
• Manage risks to execution of the business plan.
• Monitor and interpret key risk indicators that, in turn, can affect financial results.
• Streamline information flows and automate workflows (including reminders, escalations and approvals).
• Encourage outcome-oriented communication and collaboration across the organization.

stop worrying about risk. get proactive.

If increasing regulatory pressures have you searching for a way to better manage risk, our CorRisk module can provide some relief. CorRisk allows users to:

• Improve operational efficiency by aligning financial exposures, business operations, and risk management plans with business strategy.
  
• Monitor and manage potential risks by providing visibility into risk scenarios, KRIs, accountability, and cause-and-effect risk drivers through personalized dashboards, risk maps, and exception reporting.
  
• Anticipate and analyze the potential financial impact of risk scenarios with predictive forecasting and causal modeling.
  
• Monitor mitigation strategies by measuring inherent and residual risk—before and after risk controls—to monitor the effectiveness of risk controls and actions taken over time.

Budgeting & Planning

automate and streamline planning and budgeting processes.

For your organization’s planning and budgeting processes to be effective, you must:

• Involve widely dispersed stakeholders and contributors.
• Link a financial plan to the strategic plan, so that strategic objectives and initiatives are resourced effectively and financial objectives are met.
• Consolidate and report financial performance information.
• Investigate various planning scenarios.
• Streamline information flows and automate workflows, including reminders, escalations, and approvals.
• Encourage outcome-oriented communication and collaboration across the organization.

analyze the effects of budget on your organization.

Our CorPlanning module enables you to automate and streamline your planning and budgeting processes, which enables financial managers to spend more time analyzing the effects of the budget on your organization, rather than checking numbers. With CorPlanning, you can:

• Accelerate the budgeting and planning cycle by maximizing participation, communication, collaboration, and ownership during the process.
• Link planning to strategy by creating a financial plan that supports your strategic plan.
• Reduce the cost, time, and effort required to compile annual budgets.
• Improve operational efficiency by reversing the typical 80/20 input/analysis ratio for the budgeting and planning process.
• Drive profitability and growth by analyzing the business impact of hypothetical scenarios in real time.
• Quickly react to market, competitive, and organizational changes.
• Improve accuracy by eliminating consolidation of different budget versions, re-keying of data, and errors through centralized data entry.

Scorecards & Dashboards

is your performance up to par?

You need to consolidate, and report on, your organization’s financial performance information. You need to monitor and interpret the key performance indicators that drive financial results. You need to access detailed, relevant data from many disparate sources.  Let’s face it, you need an easy, automated way to do all of these things.

Automated scorecards and dashboards can provide you with up-to-the-minute organizational performance information by:

• Automating the distribution of relevant, timely, and reliable performance information.
• Streamlining information flows, and automating workflows (including reminders, escalations, and approvals).
• Encouraging outcome-oriented communication and collaboration across the organization.

turn insight into action.

Our CorBusiness module is designed to deliver automated, streamlined dashboard solutions that provide decision support, reporting, and advanced analytics for further insight into enterprise performance. CorBusiness enables you to:

• Empower business users by delivering simple purpose-built interfaces, allowing business managers at all levels to utilize timely, accurate, and meaningful information to make the right decisions.
• Improve operational efficiency by eliminating data transfers between systems, and reduce the time it takes to compile month-end reporting.
• Improve report quality by providing access to data from multiple sources, enabling multi-level drill down with more reliable information—and most important—extracting “one version of the truth”.
• Improve responsiveness to business needs by dramatically reducing the time required to create new reports.

Project Portfolios

seriously effective project management.

You’re up to your armpits in projects. You’re trying to execute strategic initiatives and programs, manage the pipeline of potential projects, monitor operational imperatives (like status, costs, resources and risks), and focus on your ROI.  We get it. And we can make your job easier, faster, and more efficient.

Increase data quality. Reduce stress levels.

Our CorProject module enables you to streamline your project-based processes, leading to more effective—and less stressful—project management. With CorProject, you can:

• Improve the quality of available information by combining reports and analysis with related text.
• Streamline the management reporting process by using templates, automated assembly, and collaborative workflows.
• Reduce the cost of manual assembly while fast-tracking the availability of periodic management report packs.
• Leverage investment in existing information systems, such as: ERP, HR, project management, quality, and incident systems; portals; various documents; databases; spreadsheets; and BI applications.
• Conduct online meetings, review performance results and make necessary decisions using interactive, on-line material that serves as “one version of the truth”.

Strategy Execution

There are many moving parts to the strategy puzzle.

Achieving your strategic objectives is no easy task. There are many moving parts that could stand in your way, such as:

• Communicating strategic objectives.
• Aligning the day-to-day activities of your business units, teams, and individuals with a business plan.
• Monitoring progress against strategic objectives and the business plan.
• Executing the strategic initiatives and projects that drive performance improvements.
• Monitoring and interpreting key performance indicators that, in turn, drive financial results.
• Automating the distribution of relevant, timely, and reliable performance information.
• Accessing relevant, detailed data from a variety of corporate data sources.
• Streamlining information flows, and automating workflows (including reminders, escalations and approvals).
• Encouraging collaboration across the organization.

One automated, holistic solution to your strategy needs.

Our CorStrategy module is designed to deliver strategy execution solutions that enable you to meet your strategic objectives more effectively. Using CorStrategy, you can:

• Communicate the business plan to the people who are responsible for executing it.
• Link key performance indicators (KPIs) and core initiatives to strategic objectives
• Enforce corporate governance through an automated performance management process that provides visibility, control, and accountability.
• Eliminate projects, and redirect resources where initiatives are not aligned with strategic objectives.
• Manage key drivers of business performance with personalized dashboards, scorecards, briefing books, and interactive business analysis.
• Align employee behavior to strategy execution, and provide a clear line of sight from daily activities to organizational strategy.

Decision Support, BI & Analytics

Informed decisions. better results.

Your organization has many different reporting needs, but one goal: swiftly and accurately finding “one version of the truth” to guide important decision-making processes. 

Many important elements must be sourced to get to the truth. You need to access detailed data from disparate sources, monitor and interpret key performance indicators, and investigate the performance of key business processes.

Don’t just report your data—analyze it.

Our CorBusiness module is designed to let you get to—and maintain—one version of the truth without the hassle of complex data transfers. Most important, our highly functional configuration tools involve no programming knowledge whatsoever, so your team of end-users can maintain the system as your business requirements evolve. You’ll be able to easily:

• Automate the distribution of relevant, timely, and reliable performance information.
• Report financial performance.
• Monitor and interpret key performance indicators.
• Investigate performance of key business processes through a variety of analytical tools, such as:

• Access relevant, detailed data from a variety of corporate data sources—business applications, data warehouses, spreadsheets etc.
• Streamline and automate information flows.
• Encourage outcome-oriented communication and collaboration across the organization.

Text Analytics

Gain intelligence from unstructured text.

Even companies with extensive investments in data servers and business intelligence tools are likely missing out on the bulk of their valuable enterprise data.  In fact, the majority of enterprise data does not reside in structured databases; it lives in unstructured, text-based documents. Think of the multitude of contracts, external reports, emails, and support records that pass through your organization that contain a mass amount of information from which business intelligence could be gathered. Extracting information from those assets quickly and accurately can make a big difference to your operational effectiveness, giving you a competitive edge.

Many target applications, one solution.

From contract processing to support ticket reporting to email and social media analytics, our Rocket AeroText product suite provides a fast, agile information extraction system for developing text analytics applications. Rocket AeroText is ideal for developing a core understanding of content contained within unstructured text—such as emails and documents—as well as an ability to automatically reconcile information cited across multiple sources. Such capabilities make it suited for a variety of applications, from counter-terrorism and law enforcement, to business intelligence and enterprise content management.

• AeroText’s highly sophisticated analytical engine, developed for—and heavily used by—the government sector, excels at deriving relevant information from unstructured documents and text  stored within database records.
• A versatile toolset permits AeroText to be readily customized to understand subject matter of importance, such as product names, customer types, references to business processes and procedures.
• Using AeroText, you can extract items of interest (such as customers, organizations, products, or locations), and the relationships between them.
• High-performance engine supports rapid/real-time analysis of large data volumes.

Search & Publishing

Automate content search, editing, and publishing.

Publishing content—and keeping content up-to-date and consistent—in a world of multiple outputs is a loaded task. Think of all the places your content lives: online, on CD/DVD, within corporate intranets, and more. You need an easy way to assemble, enhance, secure, and publish your high-value reference information, and you also need a tool to rapidly search and intuitively navigate the information that is currently published.

Whether you’re a corporate or commercial publisher, our Rocket Folio^® and Rocket NXT^® product suites provide everything you need to not only publish your content, but to also meet rising compliance regulations while mitigating publishing risk factors. 

Reduce production costs, speed time to market, sell more publications, and increase customer loyalty.

When you need a cost-effective CD publishing suite with simple authoring and editing capabilities, the ability to create cross-references, a table of contents, and rapid search via a thick (Windows) client, our Rocket Folio product family is an ideal solution. Built on proprietary Infobase technology, Folio enables you to:

• Reduce production costs and leverage existing skill sets—no technical expertise needed.
• Add value to your publications with cross references, commentary, fielded data, topical groups, and more.
• Utilize personalization features such as notes, highlighters, and annotations when updating publications—and keep features separate from the central data store.
• Rapidly and accurately search documents in your information library.
• Intuitively navigate your content.
• Reduce risk and ensure compliance through automatic removal of out-of-date information.
• Ensure fair payment and appropriate use through rights management.
• Reduce your total cost of ownership and lower your entry price with simple royalty-based pricing and licensing that aligns with your business model.
  

Power and streamline your information delivery.

Whether you’re a corporate or commercial publisher, the need to easily update and disseminate information is critical to your success and your customers’ satisfaction. If you need a web-based online and offline information delivery suite that will pull, organize and assemble your content from multiple sources and distribute it to the Internet, your intranet, or a CD, our Rocket NXT product suite is the solution you’re searching for. Rocket NXT indexes many content types—such as PDF, Lotus Notes and ODBC database files—and provides access to content stored in distributed locations. With Rocket NXT, you can send more frequent content updates to CD or offline users via the Internet or other electronic media, rather than having to physically distribute new information.