Multidimensional data analysis

This module of the EURECA system offers various analyses concerning planned and actual data. It can be used independently on the budgeting module.
Many users need proficient tool for analysing phenomena that occur in the company that will allow them to gain insight into information necessary in management. The demand for this type of information is huge.

Lots of questions that usually occur in typical company are very difficult to answer.
“Which product has the biggest participation in EBIT? Are they sold at the same level in every region or period? Which selling teams make best sales? Which clients buy them in greatest amounts?
What influences most on their production cost? How much we spend on their promotion in comparison with other products? Who are our top 10 suppliers? What is the influence of our top 10 products on EBIT? What our general costs consist of? Which component mostly influences company’s profit and who manages it?”

This kind of questions are asked by management of almost every company. Usually systems store large amount of data but they have no tool for turning them into useful information and knowledge. The EURECA system fulfils the gap in the transactional system of the company.

Owing to the technology used in EURECA, it is possible to make any filters and analyses we wish. It is fascinating to see how synthetic information about e.g. level of sales can be expanded into structures by regions, assortment groups, sellers, sellers and assortment groups, assortment groups and distribution channels etc. Thanks to the system, stored data can present the mode of the company’s activity, its strengths and weaknesses, causes of failure and success etc.

EURECA enables also, important for managers, analysis „from total to detail”. It is possible to define hierarchy of dimensions e.g. “index – product – assortment – category” or “unit
- department - division”. Owing to that during the analysis of data we can see its structure
and relations on every level. According to needs it is possible to analyse even the most detailed data.

The Managers Desktops
In specific situations the standard form of presentations data is not sufficient method for correct interpretations of results. In this way EURECA is equipped with a specific tool – Managers Desktops. They actually help in analysis process or to estimate fulfilment of individual budgets.
Thanks to Managers Desktops a Financial Controller can share with managers their data in easy and readable graphic form.
Using Managers Desktops You can quickly define range and way of presentations data about realisations of individual budgets. During projecting a Desktop for individual users You can also evaluate analysis results.
Range of undergoing data analysis helps to identify analysed situations as unsatisfactory, average results and very good results.
Using Desktops managers responsible for execution their budgets can observe all their data with an easy to interpret graphic form.
The Desktops can have various forms. It can be indicators or clocks similar to cars desktops, imitations of road signalisations, smiling or sad icons etc. Thanks to simple imaging the results we can observe when individual position in our budget reach desirable or bad values.
Further more users of Managers Desktops can at any moment reach particular report. In this report they can observe numbers and charts presenting all of information about an interesting phenomenon.

AD-HOC queries
Ad hoc queries are a very useful tool in searching for non-typical information. We usually know which products have the best sales. But are they sold at the same level in every region?
What is the sales in particular distribution channels or groups of clients? Are there any sellers that can bring good results in sales of not so popular products? If so, how they do that? If we know answers for such questions, the risk of losing market opportunities is reduced.
Very important feature of the ad hoc queries module is its intuitive and user-friendly interface.
User employs language very close to natural – he doesn’t have to waste time on learning ad hoc query language. Once created queries can be saved and used again, also by other users.

Local Cubes
Interesting functionality of analytical part of EURECA is possibility of making Local Cubes. They are parts of OLAP cubes (multidimensional database). They contain information e.g.: about costs, incomes, share of markets, storage states etc.
Why do we create the Local Cubes? The reason is that we do not always want to share data accumulate in Data Warehouse with every participant of decision taking process. Its enough for some users of EURECA to have possibility only to analyse this information which concerns their responsibility area. The Local Cubes are defined by EURECA’s administrator. They save defined information and share them with individual user without necessity of permanent connection with EURECA’s base.
All of defined cubes are located in the repository on server. User can download them on her / his computer e.g.: by web site and than on his basis do various analysis. Users who have access to define range of data have possibility to connect with the Local Cube also by EURECA’s client application.

Drill – Through analysis
The Drill – Through mechanism allows presentation of individual components of values. It allows drilling in details and knows actual reasons for observing state of matters.

EURECA OFFLINE
Offline EURECA’s module served work with control analysis and ad – hoc analysis. Its possible because we can download and save Local Cubes on a drive. There is no necessity to connect with SQL server or OLAP cubes.
There are two modules of EURECA’s Off – line:

Control boards
Ad – hoc questions

To use this functionality its enough to choose suitable module, factor an application and download Local Cubes. Then You can do Your analysis and after that save them in a multi – hierarchy tree form.