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PilotWorks - Reports

PilotWorks’ reports and ad hoc analysis component covers the needs of all stakeholders, from the CEO to operational managers or analysts. An easy-to-use interface enables users of diverse functional backgrounds to quickly measure ongoing progress toward objectives, while unique features such as Time Intelligence™, support for attributes and user-defined hierarchies empower them to customize analysis to their particular needs — without help from IT. For analysts seeking more depth to aid decision-making, PilotWorks’ ad hoc analysis capabilities provide virtually boundless analysis options to measure and uncover the root of performance issues. Integrated forecasting capabilities help analysts project future performance and plan ahead based on current reality.

Library of performance analysis templates can be used right out of the box or customized

Key features and benefits

• Simplified report views: Users can view reports based on specific areas of analysis for a more meaningful, in-depth measurement of performance.
• Library of packaged performance analysis templates — Ranking, Trending and Forecasting, Pareto (80/20), and Exceptions: Can be used right out of the box or customized for your particular needs to:
  • Highlight areas that are performing well and flag potential problems by displaying elements in rank order based on a measure such as sales or units produced.
  • Display trends over time for measures such as product sales, market share or average selling price.
  • Answer questions critical to overall performance, such as what are the top revenue producers and what percentage of the whole do they represent?
  • See a high-level view of under- and over-performers in product goods, sales goals, or any other measure you choose.
• Navigator ad hoc analysis: Helps analysts quickly understand the drivers of progress toward goals; slice and dice performance data any way they like; and answer very specific, in-depth questions unique to their business.
• Reporting on performance versus previous periods: Enables examination of progress versus historical performance. View performance comparing specific dates (as defined by user); relative dates (e.g., latest day, previous day, latest seven days, previous month, etc.), latest date vs. previous equivalent (e.g., current month vs. same month prior year, etc.).
• Unique time templates: Enables users to perform custom time analyses without having to redefine their data set.
• Web-based Excel add-in capability: Allows for analysis of Pilot’s multi-dimensional performance data in the familiar Microsoft® Excel interface wherever users access the Web.
• Report descriptions: Allows report owners to provide context to other users by indicating what a report is about and the source of its information.