What you will probably find is that you don't have an information warehouse, you are more likely to have a data warehouse. What many of our clients have found is that data is not by itself very useful. Additional processing is needed to make it accessible and useful to potential users. Alacrity Results Management can provide that additional value added and can source its information from an existing data warehouse. What we often find with customers is that the data warehouse is a useful place to get clean data from, but that what they are really interested in are the relationships between the data.
Most accounting systems provide the ability to compare actuals to budgets.
What they don't do is provide a process for developing a hiqh quality budget quickly. They also generally are not very good modeling tools. They also have difficulty with large organizations where a one size fits all approach is inappropriate for different divisions at different stages of development. Our view is that the Budget vs. Actual reporting in accounting systems is only one destination for the kind of information created by an Alacrity Results Management Budgeting process. Others might include comprehensive activity based budgeting and enterprise models, Balanced Scorecard Reporting, Customer Profitability Systems, Statistical Quality Control Reporting, and HR Staffing Models.