iMANY GOVERNMENT PRICING BI

ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT REPORTING REGULATIONS

What does iMANY Government Pricing BI do?

iMANY Government Pricing Business Intelligence (BI) provides visibility into all levels of your government price calculations, including summarized results, mid-level components and underlying transactional details. Through a highly configurable reporting framework, Government Pricing BI enables robust and flexible calculation review and reconciliation processes while minimizing dependence on IT for data access.

Why is iMANY Government Pricing BI important?

Visibility into calculation details is critical for compliance with government programs. In order to mitigate your non-compliance risk, calculations must be verified for accuracy and reconciled against general ledgers and other financial and transaction systems. Additionally, you must thoroughly validate your price calculations prior to submission to government entities. Government Pricing BI offers unparalleled flexibility in its presentation and access to this critical data.

For whom is iMANY Government Pricing BI designed?

iMANY Government Pricing BI is designed for government pricing analysts and other business users of iMANY Government Pricing for self-service query and report authoring.

KEY BENEFITS

Perform robust analysis and reconciliation

When reviewing government price calculations, accuracy is mission- critical. A cornerstone of the validation process is the ability to “slice and dice” calculation results in a variety of views that align with other systems and internal control tools. Government Pricing BI not only allows for this detailed analysis, but more importantly, helps mitigate your risk through streamlined and vigorous review processes.

Robust real-time reporting capabilities without performance degradation

iMANY Government Pricing BI embeds best-in-class reporting tools for accessing and querying your data as soon as it has been captured in the system. By decoupling the calculation data from the base Government Pricing system, information is available real-time and without performance degradation.

Create and customize ad hoc reports

iMANY Government Pricing BI provides robust report authoring and ad hoc analysis capabilities for meeting disparate business needs and accommodating diverse skill sets. With its extensive presentation-layout capabilities, report authors can easily access data from the Government Pricing calculation definitions; define custom calculations and incorporate charts and other business graphics in reports. Using role-based definitions for users, your IT department can manage the administration of report authors and viewers, as well as the data that report authors can use when building reports.

KEY FEATURES

Self-Service Reporting

iMANY Government Pricing BI leverages a multi-dimensional schema comprised of dimensions and metrics represented in business terms, enabling self-service for a wide variety of business users for authoring reports.

Ad Hoc Queries

iMANY Government Pricing BI includes a robust ad hoc query capability that provides point-and-click access to calculation details. The application allows easy access to underlying transactions and audit trail information to support price calculations.

KEY CAPABILITIES

Dashboards

iMANY Government Pricing BI dashboarding capabilities help you monitor, measure and manage government price calculations. Providing an at-a-glance, factual and timely view of price calculations, users can reveal pattern, anomalies, key variables and relationships in the data leading to proactive evidence-based decisions. Government Pricing BI delivers a high degree of visualization with graphs, gauges and charts and can easily be delivered in multiple formats to suit specific needs of business users. E-mail alerts are delivered to a user’s desktop or mobile device when the status of a metric or calculation changes.

Reporting

iMANY Government Pricing BI provides a comprehensive set of reporting capabilities in a single Web-based solution for all components of the reporting lifecycle including self-service reporting; author once, access anywhere and collaboration between users enabling the sharing of queries and reports.

Analysis

iMANY Government Pricing BI enables the interactive exploration of information critical for complex analysis and reporting of trends in price calculations. No matter how large or complex, you can easily explore and manipulate your data sets with drag-and-drop techniques and drill down through increasing levels of detail across different dimensions. The solution allows you to view and analyze data relationships graphically and easily change your displays. Users can also easily drill down, rank, sort and nest information to gain greater insight into trends, causes and effects.

Seamless Integration

iMANY Government Pricing BI can be configured to work seamlessly with iMANY CARS BI, offering a cross-functional view of the government pricing inputs that are stored within CARS. This allows for the convenient drill through of calculation components to CARS contracts, transactions, and pricing information at the click of a button.