Your business changes daily. Before you can do something about it, you need understand what’s happening, why it’s happening and what is at your disposal to do something about it. Businesses can’t just react, they need to plan, forecast, evaluate performance and adjust—all on the fly. You can’t stop change. But you can understand it and act quickly to keep performance on track.

The faster and more efficiently you can monitor, analyze and plan, the more capable you are of staying on top of change. The key to effective performance management is a single platform that can aggregate relevant data, deliver rich and powerful analytic capabilities, produce realistic forecasts, and track execution against plan.

Blackfin can help you move beyond stale reports and plans built on offline or proprietary tools by implementing tools that bring together three core performance management components:

Monitoring
Easily see what is happening now in your organization with advanced visualization tools that help you gain insight into your data faster. Measure against your objectives, and understand how your actions impact corporate goals.

Analytics
Quickly discover what is--or is not--driving performance and look at what adjustments you might make to take advantage of new opportunities.

Planning
Efficiently build budgets, forecasts, and plans in the interface everyone knows—Microsoft Office Excel. Integrate this familiar tool with ProClarity and PerformancePoint Server 2007 offer auditing capability, centralized control, enhanced security, and the proven data platform of Microsoft SQL Server 2005.