Performance Management

Do you know how your organization performing right now? Can your managers and employees connect their day-to-day work and job performance to your company's key objectives? Probably not.

Dashboards can give you that critical information. And performance management can give your managers the ability use it.

Tightly linked, dashboards and performance management tools let your key people see vital data, set and manage goals, and perform sophisticated analysis. In short, the combination gives your managers the information they need to make smart decisions and take action in support of your organization's top-line goals and strategic initiatives.

More specifically, advanced performance management tools (like Business Objects Performance Manager) let users develop and set goals, manage goals dynamically, track progress, set thresholds, monitor trends – and then deliver results in scorecards and alerts via the dashboard interface.

Going further, performance management tools link business activity to strategic goals, helping to ensure alignment. And looking at the bottom line, performance management maximizes your existing investment in business intelligence analytics and enterprise reporting.

Real Benefits and Real ROI

With a performance management solution by Dunn Solutions Group, your organization can:

Closely monitor key performance indicators (KPIs). Critical business data is presented on dashboards in easy-to-understand speedometers, dynamic graphs and tables. Scorecards and alerts tell you when performance is above, on or below target.  And because all information is presented against time, trends are more visible. All this helps your users work more proactively, allowing them to stop small problems before they become big trouble.

Align execution with strategy. Performance management dashboards highlight business metrics that are critical to achieving your organization’s strategic goals.And the insight they provide helps managers stay focused on key initiatives, makes it possible to make more accurate decisions and, ultimately, improves organizational performance.

Manage enterprise performance effectively. No matter what performance management methodology your company uses, dashboards can be custom-built to support your needs.  Strategy-focused dashboards can be deployed throughout the organization, improving performance by putting powerful analytic functionality into the hands of business users.

Ultimately, improved KPI monitoring, greater data visibility, better measurement against goals, and a consistent view of the organization’s performance lead to better decision-making and optimized business operations.



Process Starts with KPIs

Performance management starts with identifying key performance indicators (KPIs). At Dunn Solutions Group, we use our proven Assurity™ methodology to guide a step-by-step approach that identifies, develops and delivers those KPIs. Once KPIs are identified, we help you determine which ones your managers need to see, who needs to see them, and how often.

The question, then, is which dashboard/performance management solution is best? Different organizations have different information needs. And each organization has a different business intelligence environment and IT infrastructure.

Dashboard/Performance Management Options

For companies with existing Business Objects tools, the Dashboard Manager/Performance Manager combination is the obvious choice. Solutions based on these Business Objects products offer easy integration with the company's advanced analytics, and the combination is, plain and simple, one of the industry's most sophisticated performance management tools.

For companies with heterogeneous reporting environments, we offer a number of flexible solutions utilizing Business Objects, Theoris, Microsoft and other third-party tools that allow you to distribute both Business Objects and other information streams within the same platform.

Theoris' Vision dashboards are easy to implement, offering a "snapshot" of vital business information. Microsoft Reporting Services pulls data from SQL Server applications, and dashboards built on it offer excellent functionality and flexibility. Both solutions offer simple, but effective, performance management capabilities.


For more information about dashboards and our advanced performance management solutions, contact us at info@dunnsolutions.com or by phone at 800-486-DUNN.