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 Enterprise Performance Analytics (EPAs), is a series of analytical applications that provide a base for business performance measurement. Sales Analysis, the first product available in this series, allows businesses to analyse all aspects of sales from effectiveness of sales and distribution organisations to product and customer performance.

Utilising the best practices in Cognos e-Applications, the Sales Analysis solution converts raw data into meaningful sales information. Thc solution is comprised of 52 pre-defined reports and live multi-dimensional cubes for: sales, orders, distribution, promotions and forecasts. Sales Analysis is part of the Cognos e-Applications Business Performance Management Foundation (BPM). This is a suite of analytical applications based on a common foundation allowing organisations to implement the solution that meets their immediate departmental requirements and incrementally employ the solution across the entire enterprise.

SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) A fault tolerant peripheral interface from IBM that transfers data at 80 and 160 Mbytes/sec. SSA uses SCSI commands, allowing existing software to drive SSA peripherals, which are typically disk drives.  GT and Cognos also offer applications in the following areas: General Ledger General Ledger

A company's accounting records. This formal ledger contains all the financial accounts and statements of a business.

Notes:
The ledger uses two columns: one records debits, the other has offsetting credits.
 Analysis, Accounts Receivable accounts receivable n. the amounts of money due or owed to a business or professional by customers or clients. Generally, accounts receivable refers to the total amount due and is considered in calculating the value of a business or the business' problems in paying  Analysis., Accounts Payable Analysis, Inventory Analysis and Procurement Analysis. Once available, these products will include pre-configured reports for generating key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action.  (KPIS) and business critical analyses. BPCS EPAs provides a low-risk solution eliminating the business analysis, development and integration phases required in traditional implementations. Each product will pull information from an existing BPCS database to a SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server.  platform. The information will create a data mart which will allow BPCS customers to perform business performance analyses. Each data mart can be deployed at a departmental level for reducing implementation time. When introduced together the data marts form a coordinated data warehouse, to deliver an enterprise view of the business.

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Date:Jan 1, 2002
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