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We’ve all heard of ‘smart’ phones, ‘smart’ speakers, even ‘smart’ lightbulbs, where a device is drastically enhanced by technological features, such as access to the internet or Bluetooth, or a touchscreen interface. These smart devices are all designed with the goal of improving our daily lives. Well, now the same can be said about ‘smart’ […]

From ‘A Space Odyssey’ to ‘Black Mirror’, we’ve seen countless chilling examples of machines and technology gaining too much power of our lives. For years now, we’ve all heard the warnings of robots coming to steal away our jobs, and now that is starting to happen on a tremendous scale. Robot employees In April 2019 […]

You may have heard the phrase ‘blockchain’ being thrown around more and more. So what is it? While many websites use impressive data words to describe it, Blockchain is simply a shared, digital database; a digital record book. What makes blockchain different is the concept of storing copies of a database over multiple users’ computers. […]

This dashboard-style report offers rapid comparison of project labour hours/spend at the different overtime rates, labour hours/spend by Project, cumulated leave liability and attrition rates. Enables better management of overtime work, staff headcount and wellbeing through managing leave liability. Attrition rates and difference in tenures highlight corporate health/hygiene issues. Typical filters and drill down apply […]

Provides month and year-to-date labour spend and head count data (columns), allocated by Cost Centre (rows). Includes permanent and non-permanent employees. Actual, Budget and Variance data quickly highlights those areas that require managerial attention. The report can be filtered by month, budget comparison figures, and company structure (e.g. by company, plant, division, profit centre, department, […]

Provides 12 months of P&L data for the selected financial year (columns), allocated to the general ledger structure (rows). This report is used to display Actual, Budget or combined Actual and Budget data for forecasting purposes. This report can be tailored to report on specific P&L subsections (e.g. OPEX and Direct Opex) and can be […]

Provides 12 months of P&L data (columns) for the selected financial year, allocated to a company hierarchical structure (rows). Profit and Cost Centres are repositioned to above or below the Contribution Margin line to provide an accurate representation of the true Contribution Margin, Margin After Recoveries and Operational Expenditure. This report is used to display […]

Customer credit risk is accessed with visual clues being provided with stoplights and cell highlights. Value-at-risk calculations highlight the probable credit default value and its quantum is expressed as a percentage of sales and profit. (EG. a VAR to Profit Ratio of 2%, implies that you are 95% confident that your company will lose 2% […]

This is an example of a dashboard style report, which provides a holistic overview of sales performance. It shows quarterly year-on-year actual vs. budget sales, broken down by region and customer type. Top 10 customers and products are also included providing opportunities for targeted campaigns. Drill down is included on the customers and products, to […]

Labour is integral to all organisations and its performance has a significant impact on the bottom line. Empower executives and managers to monitor the ‘health and happiness’ of your employees through the following KPIs. The dashboard can be filtered by company, date and budget comparison version, with drill down providing further detail.