Manage Your Entire Business

There's more to manufacturing than machinery and equipment. To get the most from your business, you need to effectively manage valuable non-plant resources, such as people and information.

Glovia provides two solutions to help manage your enterprise:

• Glovia Project Manangement
• Glovia Business Intelligence

Glovia Projects enables you to profitably manage resources, people and activities for complex projects.

Glovia Business Intelligence helps you manage your business by turning raw data into valuable, actionable information.

Glovia Project Manangement:

• Improves profitability of service offerings
• Increases on-time project completion
• Optimizes use of valuable personnel and equipment
• Decreases project management costs and inefficiencies
• Improve accuracy of service-based estimates and quotes

Whether your business is services-driven or has a major services component, Glovia Projects can help. It enables you to profitably manage customer projects and contracts by coordinating program resources and activities. The end-to-end solution manages all aspects of projects – from defining the project and developing realistic estimates and quotes to optimizing the use of resources and managing costs.

Glovia Projects provides you with total visibility into the status of your project. Dedicated accounting tools help you evaluate project status, avoid runaway costs and ensure profitability, whether you are managing a single project or a complex, multi-project program. Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Project, Glovia's solution helps you develop and analyze project plans, create reports and coordinate activities. The solution also enables you optimize project resources, planning activities and tasks, synchronize dates and determine the impact changes will have on project completion and profitability.

Glovia Business Intelligence:

• Decreases decision making cycle times
• Increases organizational responsiveness
• Improves decision making accuracy
• Identifies and tracks key performance indicators
• Manages critical business information and documents
• Improve information accessibility

Who are my most profitable customers? What is my best selling product? What's my on-time delivery performance? Have inventory turns decreased? Have customer service levels dropped? Executives ask these and thousands of similar questions everyday to manage their business.

Glovia Business Intelligence takes data, collected and stored by your organization, and turns it into meaningful, actionable information. Our solution helps you improve business performance by making faster, more informed decisions.

Glovia's solution helps you gain valuable insight into the performance of your business. It includes a powerful event and exception management tool, a web-based document management system and leading business intelligence applications from Cognos.

Cognos Impromptu delivers managed reporting for consistent, fact-based decision-making. Managed reporting enables report authors to create reports drawn from any data source. These reports can then be delivered to report consumers.

Report authors use Impromptu to create business-context reports. Report authors can author virtually any report using Impromptu's superior frame-based reporting interface. Report data can come from any source, and reports can be deployed to Impromptu users across LANs and WANs, as well as to mobile users.

Cognos PowerPlay, the world's best-selling OLAP (online analytical processing) software, enables users to explore large volumes of summarized data with sub-second response times in a Web, Windows, or Excel environment. With Cognos PowerPlay, users at any business or technical skill level in a company can perform their own multidimensional analysis, create reports, and share them for better decision-making.

Cognos PowerPlay provides both a multidimensional data store and a feature rich end-user experience. Its multi-server, load-balanced architecture is easy to install and manage, and it scales to thousands of users.