Epicor® Vantage® / Vista™ - Business Performance Management
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Every business measures performance to some degree, but business performance management is more than measurement. Business performance management is both passive measurement and active performance management. Vantage/Vista includes the tools you need for reporting and analysis, and real-time monitoring and triggers to generate alerts when a metric or process is outside a pre-established tolerance.
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE Shortening time-to-market. Reducing costs. Achieving zerodefects. Improving customer service. These forces have created a new level of urgency for clear understanding of your company’s performance. Business Intelligence (BI)0-powered by the CorVu™ business intelligence engine-emphasizes the active use of the right information at the right time for the right person, to proactively guide and adjust the course of the business, rather than passively measure its progress.
BI can transform your data into actionable information. Quickly access and analyze your company’s data. Disseminate critical information in easy to read formats. Isolate pertinent information from a sea of data. Review data analysis from several perspectives (e.g., financial, production, internal, external). Create indicators to measure progress against strategic goals.
WORKFLOW MANAGEMENT Vantage/Vista takes into account the real-life circumstances that define your complex and dynamic manufacturing environment, both during planning and the actual process. Embedded within Vantage/Vista is a comprehensive and flexible workflow solution that gives you the tools you need to respond quickly to critical business requirements. The workflow facilities available within Vantage/Vista enable you to quickly begin managing and automating even the most complex business processes, including working toward ISO certification.
BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT Business Process Management is all about identifying and improving processes to make your business more efficient, more disciplined, and better able to adapt to change. Many of today's businesses have already spent the time and effort to document and outline their business processes, some to meet strict regulatory and quality standards for their industry (ISO,TS,AS for example) and others for improved business efficiency. Epicor Business Process Management(BPM) augments your current efforts of continuous improvement by allowing you to more closely tailor your Epicor solution to reflect the best practices you have developed. Common usages of Epicor BPM include building in strict approval requirements for inventory part management or customer credit limit management as well as automating shipment delivery email messages to customers.
INFORMATION WORKER According to current industry surveys, desktop productivity tools are used by 95% of business workers, with Microsoft Office as the standard for desktop applications. Epicor Information Worker provides a secure, seamless interface to your Epicor application within Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Excel, or Microsoft Word. Imagine the productivity and business visibility you will gain by using Epicor Information Worker as an interface for both traditional and non-traditional Epicor users.
Yes, your estimator can keep his Microsoft Excel spreadsheets!!
Yes, your sales proposal templates, now in Microsoft Word, can provide all your proposal conditions in ready format.
Yes, the temp you hired can be up and running in a matter of minutes.
Yes, your tasks, contacts, e-mail, and more can be accessed via Microsoft Outlook and synched automatically when you return to the office.
SERVICE CONNECT WORKFLOW AND BUSINESS INTEGRATION PLATFORM Epicor Service Connect is a business integration platform, functioning as a central integration point for secure workflow orchestrations within Epicor® applications as well as external connectivity to Epicor and non-Epicor applications. Users can automate tasks and processes within the application to promote lean principles, continuous performance initiatives and Six Sigma quality within the organization or across the supply chain. Service Connect lets employees focus on value added activities and management by exception instead of repetitive data (re)entry tasks. Built to support collaborative processes, Service Connect links different business entities, applications or users using open, industry wide standards and technology that enables businesses to deploy solutions-confident that their investment will remain in tact for the future. Service Connect harnesses the openness of XML and includes service-bus functionality for Security, Messaging, Orchestration, Transformation, Scheduling, Notification, and Exception Handling to deliver rock-solid reliability combined with ease of use.
DASHBOARD™ Dashboard encompasses multiple different capabilities such as inquiries, ad-hoc reports, workbenches, graphical analysis, tactical business intelligence, alerts and business monitoring in a single entity. It is a robust one-stop interface that replaces traditional menu systems with personalized role-or context based views and links into core transactions of the system. In addition, it puts the visual indicators and functions you use the most right at your fingertips. Tooled with unique flexibility, the Dashboard enables users to develop their own workbenches using a series of online views of information such as a tracker.
Epicor® Vantage® / Vista™ - Business Performance Management
