Profitbase, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, is a technology leader in delivering rapidly deployed business intelligence and planning solutions to manufacturers, retailers, healthcare providers, and many other markets throughout the world. Their solutions deliver a rich set of pre-defined metrics and key performance indicators that empower decision makers with the information they need to easily monitor and optimise their operations. Profitbase solutions are quickly deployed using their software tools and out-of-the-box templates enabling project deployment times, cost and risk to be significantly reduced. Their solutions provide businesses with one consolidated view of information resulting in 360-degree visibility to all aspects of business performance and accelerate planning cycles enabling users to plan, track and act on performance based on their roles in the organisations.

Profitbase solutions also ensures continuity of business insight as new business systems are added through acquisition or system upgrades, protecting a company’s investment in existing business systems and turning the hard to access data they hold into an asset. Businesses that deploy Profitbase solutions have access to better, more current information enabling them to be more agile and to make better and faster decisions.

Profitbase, a Microsoft Global Alliance Partner, helps manufacturers improve supply chain performance by providing them with a rich set of metrics that enables decision makers to track and optimise performance.

The Profitbase BI for Manufacturing solution delivers actionable performance information on financials, sales, purchasing, inventory, account receivable, account payable, OEE and delivery. Information is delivered to users based on their roles in the organisation. Plant managers can track production, work-in-process, and inventory by area, line, department and operator. Management is able to monitor top performing plants, vendors and track inventory. Regardless of their role, everyone from the CEO to the line supervisor can monitor performance.

Profitbase solutions are quickly deployed using Profitbase Studio, a data warehouse deployment acceleration tool that is used to create, manage and deploy their manufacturing business and data source connector templates. The business templates capture standard manufacturing metrics and key performance indicators common in the industry. Connector templates enable quick connection and data retrieval from many of the most popular enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems including the Microsoft Dynamics family of business systems.

The Profitbase solution is built on Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 and delivers performance information to scorecard, dashboard, and reporting systems, like Microsoft SharePoint.

Profitbase helps retailers improve performance by providing them with a rich set of metrics that enables decision makers to track and optimise vendors performance, inventory and store performance.

The solution delivers actionable performance information to users based on their role in the organisation. Store managers can track sales, promotions, inventory turns, out-of-stock SKUs, and margin by category, department and store clerk. Regional or chain sales executives are able to monitor top performing stores, categories and inventory. Category managers can see product line and vendor performance. Regardless of their role, everyone from the CEO to the store manager can monitor performance anytime, anywhere. Using a browser and role-based self-service business intelligence (BI) interface, empowered users are able to sort, filter and drill to detail to root out problems and solve them quickly.

Profitbase Retail BI solutions are quickly deployed using Profitbase Studio, a data warehouse deployment acceleration tool that is used to create, manage and deploy their out-of-the-box retail business and data source connector templates. The retail business templates capture standard retail metrics and key performance indicators based on the NRF’s Association for Retail Technology Standards data standard. Connector templates enable quick connection and data retrieval from many of the most popular ERP and POS systems, including the Microsoft Dynamics family of products.

The Profitbase solution is built on Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 and delivers performance information to scorecard, dashboard, and reporting systems, like Microsoft SharePoint.