5 reasons why SSP’s business intelligence solution will help you make better business decisions

With our business intelligence solution, we can help you really understand what’s driving the performance of your business, and take steps to improve that performance.

1 Get the specific information you need

Our business intelligence solution gives you a complete graphical ‘dashboard’ view of your business – at the click-of-a-mouse. It gathers up all the data in your backoffice systems and lets you analyze this data in seconds, compare actual figures to budget, and spot trends. It’s all there.

No one size fits all, and so each of your employees can set the dashboard up to show the Key Performance Indicator's and other graphs and reports they need.

Chief executives and finance directors can get an overview dashboard, giving them the big picture straightaway. Business analysts get to see more of everything from the start, without rigid restrictions to work around. And sales people or advisers get quick access to account or prospect information, making their calls more effective.

2 Understand what’s driving your business

Do you want to address areas that are not performing well? Identify areas of opportunity and growth? Understand the likely consequences of your decisions? Reward staff who are performing well? Educate staff who are performing less well?

Our solution pulls data from your core SSP system already in place. You can identify sales trends by product, region, office or broker, spot cross-selling and up-selling opportunities, and adjust marketing, sales and service resource as necessary.

And as the data is downloaded overnight, you can analyze and interrogate large volumes of data without slowing down your systems when your colleagues most need them. So there’s no negative impact on system performance.

3 Flexible, simple to use and unique to the industry

Our business intelligence software is powerful, simple to use and designed specifically for the business user. It requires no specialist knowledge, IT or otherwise. You simply click on the data to cut it however you want to. 

Our solution offers all the features you’d expect from a powerful analytical tool, like dashboards and alerts, multi-dimensional analyses, and slice-and-dice of data. But it comes without the limitations, complexity or cost of traditional reporting tools. It can be deployed in days, users can be trained in hours, and they can get answers to their questions in seconds.

Our packaged business intelligence solution is unique in the industry. It’s easy to set up, fast, powerful and flexible to use. It can take you wherever your mind takes you. And it helps you make the right decisions quickly, and gain long-term business advantage.

4 Control business planning and beat the burden of compliance

Doing business is tougher than ever. Competition is intense. Customers are shopping around. And margins are under pressure. These issues combined with ever tighter and more detailed compliance regulations make the need for intelligent business analysis today crucial.

Our business intelligence capability allows users to perform what-if scenario analysis to help budget control, identify better management information and business planning as well as permitting the display of close-to-real-time data feeds for spotting trends in frequently changing data.

It is held securely and can provide better service levels by proactively identifying areas for service improvements and Service Level Agreements measurements. It assists compliance with streamlined reporting, from Key Performance Indicator's down to individual transactions at the click-of-a-mouse and increases productivity with multi-dimensional performance metrics.

5 Trust ‘one version of the truth’

Just having a suite of standard reports and spreadsheets is not good enough. They’re static. They can take too long to produce. They need to be cross-checked with each other. And if you ask a new question, you need a new set of reports.

Reporting tools are useful to a point. But to be able to drill down into your data and find answers to a myriad of questions fast, you need dedicated analytical capability.

Our business intelligence solution  supports interactive analysis over large volumes of data. It can interrogate all data in multiple data sources and multiple branches whereas using a standard spreadsheet can result in missing areas. And it can analyse masses of data in seconds thus giving all employees the same one version of truth.