BUSINESS ANALYTICS: REAL TIME, ACTIONABLE BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
SuiteAnalytics gives growing and midsize businesses built-in business intelligence combining power and ease for smarter, faster decision making. NetSuite delivers operational, tactical, and strategic intelligence in real-time from a single system of record negating the need for a complex, expensive data warehouse. Best of all, SuiteAnalytics is included in all NetSuite software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering at no charge, delivering powerful business analysis that is easy enough for any executive, line-level manager or individual user to leverage.
One System — Built-in Business Intelligence
- NetSuite acts as central repository for the core business data of a company acting as a de-facto data warehouse.
- SuiteAnalytics tools enable employees at all levels of the company to mine data and turn it into knowledge with pre-built key performance indicators, simple saved searches, and now Excel Spreadsheet-like embedded formulas.
- Unlike data warehouses, the analytics are presented in real-time on users' dashboards, giving them up-to-the-second information to better do their job and manage their operations.
- SuiteAnalytics give business intelligence to everyone matching the appropriate power with the role and sophistication of each user.
- Standard and easily customizable tools meet your exact BI needs for your employees, teams, the business and your industry.
Dashboards – Operational Intelligence
NetSuite Dashboards drive individual productivity by providing every person in the company with the real-time intelligence they need to make day-to-day decisions with confidence.
NetSuite Version 2009.0: Excel-like Formulas in Scorecards & Reports. SuiteAnalytics lets you embed Excel-like formulas in any NetSuite Performance Scorecard. Now Excel jockeys can leverage the full range of formula operators as their basis, ranging from simple mathematical calculations — such as add, subtract, multiple and divide — to complex analysis involving functions such as UPPER, LOWER, TRIM and ABSOLUTE to name a few.
Sales professionals now have the new Sales Performance Scorecards with sales and opportunities ratios with period comparisons. These Sales Dashboards can be tailored giving sales reps and managers at-a-glance analysis. And with all SuiteAnalytics KPIs, users direct drill-down allows for easy analysis of customized metrics.
The new Financial Ratios Scorecard gives executives the real-time and historic operating ratios they crave to effectively run the business and manage for growth. The Financial Ratios Scorecard includes metrics that are built using embedded formulas against core NetSuite data providing insight into key business drivers such as Days Sales Outstanding, Asset Turnover, Profit Margin on Sales and Debt to Equity ratios.
Sales professionals now have the new Sales Performance Scorecards with sales and opportunities ratios with period comparisons. These Sales Dashboards can be tailored giving sales reps and managers at-a-glance analysis. And with all SuiteAnalytics KPIs, users direct drill-down allows for easy analysis of customized metrics.
Key Performance Indicators: KPIs are instant measures of critical metrics of a company's operation. Examples include inventory, outstanding cases, new leads, payables, new orders, cash flow and many more.
- KPIs are presented in a portlet with user-designated period comparisons and threshold flagging noting positions requiring attention.
- Direct drill-down takes the user to further detail and/or transaction pages directly from the Dashboard.
- Over 30 KPIs can be point-and-click selected each role.
- Users can easily define custom-built KPIs and publish those as well.
- With a click of a button, a user can display a trend graph for visual assessment of that KPI's metric over time.
- Users can convert any KPI into a visually distinguishing KPI Meter including comparison, time periods and threshold values for at a glance recognition of performance and identification of issues requiring rapid action.
Performance Scorecards: Highly configurable Performance Scorecards allow comparison in multiple dimensions.
- Compare between different KPIs or between different date ranges of the same KPI (ex: Quota 30, 60, 90 and Forecast 30, 60 ,90) within one portlet on your Dashboard.
- A useful comparison provides relative measurement — Ratio or Variance — against KPIs.
- This KPI type compares one KPI to another, and displays either the Absolute difference or the percent difference.
KPI Meters: Users can convert any KPI into a visually distinguishing meter including comparison, time periods and threshold values for at a glance recognition of performance and identification of issues requiring rapid action.