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Salient Capabilities OverviewPrecision Instruments for Management
©2009-2010 Salient Corporation
SalientETL™
WebViewSalientDashboard Creator ™
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Salient Interactive Miner
iMinder®
Load&Go™
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Salient360®
SalientAlerts™
I. Integrate II. Organize & Accelerate
III. Access & Control
Connecting Activity to Results
IV. Additional Capabilities
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Salient Capabilities OverviewPrecision Instruments for Management
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Salient ETL™ Integration Tool 5-6
Salient UXT® Universal Exchange Technology 8
SIM™ Salient Interactive Miner 10-13
Salient WebView™ Browser-based Visual Interactive Miner 14-16
Salient Dashboard Creator™ User Created Custom Dashboards 17
Salient UXT® Add-ons
Salient360® Excel plug-in enabling easy integration and ‘what-if’ analysis 19-20
Salient Alerts™ Web-Based Intelligent Messaging & Notification 21
Salient SIM™ Add-ons
Load&Go™ Access from laptops with synchronization capability 22
iMinder® Salient Web Portal 23
Geo™ Point and Click Location Intelligence 24-25
The Salient Difference 26
Client Testimony 27
III. Access & Control
II. Organize & Accelerate
I. Integrate
IV. Additional Capabilities
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Introduction
PUSHdependentlong delayinaccurateguesswork
time-consuming
PULLautonomousquick-fi reaccuratefact-basedeffi cient
A New Way to Work with Information
The Salient Difference:Salient is pioneering a whole new information paradigm – one more flexible and simpler than the old “push” method of reports. It’s a zero-overhead, self-service, facts-on-demand approach.
For the first time, managers and workers can help themselves quickly and regularly to meaningful facts. This fundamentally changes how work gets done.
Interactive data-mining technology gives you the most powerful forensic tool on the market today. Payments and events outside the norm immediately pop out at you in a graphical presentation.
You get a powerful telescope into business performance. You’ll see a clear, coherent picture of where spending works and where it does not. You’ll see details instantly, exactly customized to the situation of the moment.
Some call our technology a hybrid of the best in performance management, business intelligence, and content management.
What you’ll get from Salient:
Coherency – an ability to make sense out of all of the data generated every day by every business activity
Transparency – an ability to see immediately exactly how every action and every person contributes to the mission at every level
Controllability – a way for every contributor to use the same data to continually improve his or her practices
I. Integrate
SalientETL™
II. Organize & Accelerate
III. Access & Control
IV. Additional Capabilities
The only integration tool that directly merges structured business planning with technical design.
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I. IntegrateSalient ETL™ Integration Tool
Salient ETL™
Salient solutions are designed around your business objectives. ETL makes it easy.
Salient ETL saves the settings for all of these tasks in a single project file (.XML), so you can open the project and modify settings as necessary.
DesignThe design mode (Figure 1) of Salient ETL allows you to design a UXT solution using simple controls, drop-down menus, and data windows. You can define data cubes, keys, dimensions, data fields, data field pairings, and conversion tables. Based on the information entered, Salient ETL does the following:
Creates UXT schema files. The UXT schema files include the Master • Definition, Data Field Master, and Data Cube Master files. These files define the components of the UXT solution.
Creates a list of UXT files required to input data and descriptions from the • data source.
Populates map mode with the list of UXT files and their required fields, • including the length, type, format, and header information, as entered in design mode.
Salient ETL facilitates the creation and automation of a complete solution for Salient UXT®. Using Salient ETL, you can:
Set up the directory structure and other options for the UXT solution.
Design a UXT solution, including data cubes, keys, dimensions, etc.
Map data from a data source to the required UXT input files. This is also known as “transformation.”
Automate the transformation and other processes, so that you can run the UXT system and obtain regular data updates with minimal administrative tasks.
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I. IntegrateSalient ETL™ Integration Tool
MapOnce you have designed the solution, you can use map mode to map data from a variety of data sources so that they can be easily transformed to formatted UXT files. The resulting files include the required Acquire headers and record layout as specified in design mode. The transformation places the fields in the correct order, length, and format, in the output records, so that the files are ready to be applied to the UXT system.
For each UXT file, you set up a transformation that defines the data source, and matches the fields in the UXT file to the corresponding fields in the data source. A complete UXT solution will store transformation settings for several UXT files in addition to the schema files created in design mode. Once you have set up the transformation for a UXT file, you can run it in map mode to verify the results. After the results are verified, we recommend using automation mode to run the transformations for regular updates to the UXT system.
AutomateYou can use automation mode to run multiple file transformations, manage files, start and stop the UXT Server, run Acquire to apply files, back up the solution, and more. In other words, you can perform all of the tasks necessary to create and update a complete UXT solution in automation mode. Each file transformation or other action is referred to as a “process.” You can set up multiple processes in nearly any order and then store them in a runtime group so that you can easily run the entire group of processes by calling Salient ETL from a batch file or other automated procedure. You can also run processes from within Salient ETL.
Salient ETL Map Mode View
Salient ETL Automation Mode View
Salient ETL™
II. Organize & Accelerate
I. Integrate
III. Access & Control
IV. Additional Capabilities
SalientETL™
The only super-scalable in-memory intelligence processing & visualization technology platform.
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II. Organize & AccelerateSalient UXT® Universal Exchange Technology
Salient UXT® is a super-scalable in-memory intelligence processing and visualization technology platform.
Multi-SourcingUsing a “hub-and-spoke” model, the UXT server bolts onto multiple data sources. It then draws every kind of data useful for measuring value performance. UXT uses this data to render a true and exhaustive accounting of value that is added by transactions and/or limited by constraints.
Super Density & ScalabilityUXT stores massive volumes of data on a single PC server. It does this by leveraging advanced data compression, n-dimensional grid indexing, symmetrical multi-processing, and advanced programming technique. Distributed massively parallel processing allows extremely large data sets to be spread among many servers. This is done without sacrificing nearly instantaneous response speed, a critical attribute of the technology.
Super High Performance Query ProcessingTraditional BI has limitations (such as data explosion and lack of granularity) caused by pre-summary and pre-calculation of answer sets. The UXT multi-dimensional design avoids these limitations by means of a unique “associative” data management strategy. This data management strategy associates every entity relationship in the data and then re-associates it at query time. This way it eliminates summary hierarchies, predetermined drill paths and drill procedure.
Embedded Mining and Analysis ToolsUXT facilitates interactive mining and visualization: it eliminates the need to “set up” or “re-state” drill paths and calculations. Users can redirect their interest to higher or lower levels of detail, or to different attributes and dimensions of information.
As they do so, the full screen will refresh instantly with each click. Shifting analytical forms is just as easy: users can click on graphical icons that represent different ways of looking at data. Taking advantage of the rich suite of tools embedded into UXT, users can instantly shift between comparisons, exceptions, distributions, and correlative trends, as well as a host of combinations of these forms.
“Unlike a traditional BI approach that uses online analytical processing, the Salient platform does not pre-summarize or pre-calculate anything. Rather, it enables free association, so each user can assemble the facts that fit the situation at hand without having to think about a hierarchy.”
Ventana ResearchArticle ID: M05-29
III. Access & Control
WebViewSalientDashboard Creator™
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Salient Interactive Miner
I. Integrate
II. Organize & Accelerate
IV. Additional Capabilities
SalientETL™
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III. Access & ControlSIM™ Salient Interactive Miner
Salient Capabilities Provide Complete Autonomy and Answers
Save and share important views. Global bookmarks are available throughout the organization, or easily create your own.
Point and click tools let you zoom in on items of concern. Lists show current conditions and allow you to take immediate action.
Set your drill path on the fly; you decide what to question next. Here, we drill down into one product in a single city.
Anywhere
Choose a group of, or list individual business entities.
Any Criteria
Any Group
Bookmarks
Choose the time frame being monitored: individual days, fiscal calendar(s), weeks, months, quarters, or custom-ized business days.
Choose any performance metrics you have integrated into the management system.
Set pass/fail criteria for any metric or metrics.
Anytime
Any Metric
Any Path
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III. Access & ControlSIM™ Salient Interactive Miner
Salient Interactive Miner® – Visual Data Mining for Business
Putting You in Control of Your Business
Question Anything
Who hasn’t re-purchased in the last 60 days that was buying before?
Which accounts contribute less than $__ in Gross Profit per Month?
Where am I making less than $__ per stop or per invoice / and visiting more than once a month?
Which customers have not purchased a particular new high-margin product yet?
Should this new product stay in this part of the market; c-stores or just restaurants?
Are we establishing new customers in a particular segment while retaining existing accounts?
How strong is this brand; are consumers buying it again or just trying it once?
Is the sales initiative successful? A graph of customers over time answers questions about a new product. 1. How many customers tried the new product at least once?2. How many customers are buying it again?
1. How many customers did buy each brand vs. those who didn’t buy. 2. List non-buying customers, and then drill down on any one to learn more
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III. Access & ControlSIM™ Salient Interactive Miner
Optimize Trading Terms
Are our inventory levels optimized for each discount; do we really want to fully stock-out for that event?
Should we trade-off volume for a better price to improve margin?
Are we visiting each key account with the right frequency to keep inventory balanced right?
Did this new product help or hurt the over-all mix?
But what about this particular customer class – restaurants?
Are some customers getting unjustified discounts for their volume?
Where are my low margin distribution points?
Which products and customers are over or under-performing?
Did the promotion or introduction of one product affect other products or the category as a whole? A graphic shows volume performance of related products over time.
A scattergram shows under- and over-performing products. Select any group to create actionable lists
Was the event successful? A view of price and volume over time shows the factors affecting promotional efficiency. Look at the time before, during & after the promotion to compare profit performance.
before during after
discount levelfrequency discount level
duration
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III. Access & ControlSIM™ Salient Interactive Miner
Support Better Execution
How elastic is that price in that channel?
How did the price to consumer (PTC) affect volume sold?
How are we doing with Mix Management?How can we prove to our Retail Chain clients that we are making the best use of the space?
What is the Profit & Loss (P&L) bottom-line for the month on each key account, supplier, major package, team, region, or the entire business?
Price Range Shows price range distribution by sales representative. Each bar shows how many units each rep. sold at each price.
P&L Format View
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III. Access & ControlSalient WebView™ Browser-based Visual Interactive Miner
Question trends visually to see what’s behind the numbers; finding the specifics you can act on
Rubberband to list exactly which products, customers, assets or other business entities are out of range from the norm
Visually select items to investigate why; for example, one may use this chart to see which key accounts are driving growth in the territory in question
Choose any performance metrics you have integrated into the management system
Set your drill path on the fly; you decide what to question next. In this example maybe you want to list the customers not meeting margin expectations
Choose a group of, or list individual business entities
Choose the time frame being monitored: individual days, fiscal calendars, weeks, months, or quarters
Anywhere
Any Trend
Any Detail
Anytime
Any MetricAny Path
Any Comparison
For Hands-on Interactivity and On-the-fly Business Flexibility While Salient Dashboards offer a simplified view and standard measurement of business performance, Salient WebView™ provides a more flexible web-based solution that enables business professionals to see business facts in any context, compared to any other indicators without having to predict what question or what direction someone may want to go in a dashboard.
Introducing WebView™
Salient WebView™ lets you find the answers to all your daily business questions, with no boundaries.
WebView
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III. Access & ControlSalient WebView™ Browser-based Visual Interactive Miner
Salient WebView.™ Get the information you need via the Internet, from any computer...anywhere in the world!
Connect to the facts from anywhere, anytimeSalient WebView provides access to the powerful UXT® in-memory analytical compute engine through an interactive web application developed by Salient Corporation. Simply log in to Salient WebView in a web browser, and connect over an Intranet or Internet connection. No special software is required on the user machine, so Salient WebView is available on nearly any device that can connect to the Internet… laptops, handheld PCs, etc*.
Comparative - Compare two different time periods, including difference and percent change. As always, a graphical view is available to quickly spot positive or negative changes.
Trend - Correlate changes in multiple data fields over time.Scattergram - Rubberbanding is available to select items of concern. This example lists customers who are receiving low prices despite low volumes.
WebView
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III. Access & ControlSalient WebView™ Browser-based Visual Interactive Miner
Easy tools for interactive analysisSalient WebView offers more than just dashboard access to the information. The web application provides an interactive, intuitive feature set similar to Salient’s desktop workstation (SIM). So, users can easily transition back and forth when working in the office or traveling. For example:
Drill down from a high level view to a single customer, product, • recipient, asset, etc., in just a few clicks. Organize the data using simple drop-down menus. • Use collections to selectively filter results. • View performance with analyses such as comparative, distribution • (scattergram), and time-series (trend). For any of these, click a button to switch between numbers and graph formats.Change the time period to see days, weeks, months, periods, or year-to-• date. Create bookmarks of important and frequently used views.• Print or export for access to the data from other applications.• Much more.
Speed and scalabilitySalient WebView scales to the size of your data, so you can always see the whole picture. And Salient WebView delivers answers as fast as the Internet or Intranet connection allows, usually in just a few seconds.
Simple panels and views provide constant and easy access to bookmarks and measures.
Salient WebView Toolbar provides functionality and appearance similar to Salient’s desktop workstation.
WebView
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III. Access & ControlSalient Dashboard Creator™ User Created Custom Dashboards
NEW CAPABILITY!
Link any dashboard to a Salient interactive miner for the best of both worlds! Exactly the Way You Want ItFor executives who require a certain perspective of consolidated performance facts, all options are now available!
Performance Summary for Any and All AreasWish you could see a performance summary across multiple parts of the organization - then drill into details - now you can!
Maximum Web-Based InteractivityUnlike most dashboards, Salient runs on a database optimized for data delivery (UXT®), resulting in higher speed and greater interactivity - now linkable with the Salient Interactive Miner and in 1st Qtr. 2010 - linkable with Salient WebView™.
No New Burden on Your ITWe have staff who often have worked in your industry and provide consulting around measuring and improving business performance. Share your requirements and ideas and we’ll make things happen and fast.
Easy, Accessible, & don’t forget SECURE!The Salient Security Administration Utility helps keep facts in the hands of only authorized users, while providing a simple and fully customized source for fact-based management.
SalientDashboard Creator™
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The only tool that enables managers to independently create their own dashboards.
The only tool that enables users to explore beyond the boundaries of an ordinary dashboard into one of our Interactive Mining applications.
IV. Additional Capabilities
iMinder®
Load&Go™
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Salient360™
SalientAlerts™
for UXT®
for SIM™
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II. Organize & Accelerate
III. Access & Control
SalientETL™
WebViewSalientDashboard Creator™
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Salient Interactive Miner
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IV. Additional Capabilities (UXT®)Salient360® Enhanced Forecasts and Enriched Analysis
Add-On for Salient Performance Management Solutions:
Providing new insights and improved forecasting through flexible data access.
Salient360TM is part of a new breed of Salient products that provide access to UXT® technology outside the traditional Salient Graphical User Interface (GUI) client. By linking the powerful UXT engine to Microsoft Excel®, Salient360 brings unlimited “What If” analyses for new insights into pricing, purchasing, forecasting and other business activities.
Salient360 is the fast and easy link between the powerful Salient UXT data engine and unlimited analysis capabilities. With Salient360, you can easily extract data from the UXT data store into Excel®; investigate, utilize, tweak, or re-work the data; and then bring data back into Salient to continuously track the accuracy of “What-If” assumptions.
Salient360 at Work – The possibilities are endless:
Forecasts and budgets - Use real-time, transaction-level data to improve forecasts and budgets. Instantly bring exactly the right information into Excel®, where you can calculate budgets using your preferred method of statistical analysis. Incorporate soft knowledge, such as unusual events or circumstances, for better results. With Salient360, you can repeat and refine this procedure every day, week, month… whenever you prefer… to have modeling coefficients that are current and precise (without repeatedly paying large consulting fees for the same information). Tweak forecasts to perfection.
The Salient360 ExperienceSalient360 eliminates the need for special queries or programming expertise. An intuitive, tabbed interface presents all of the options in simple drop-down menus and buttons. In addition, Salient360 saves your settings, so subsequent data extractions can be performed, literally, with the click of a button.
Get Salient360 Today!Salient360 ships with UXT Version 4.0 and higher. There is no charge for the capability. There may be licensing fees for new measures that may be created using Salient360. Salient’s consulting group can assist you with the implementation and use of Salient360. Contact your Salient Sales Representative or call (607) 739-4511 for details.
Salient360™
Salient UXT®
Microsoft Excel®
Salient360™
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IV. Additional Capabilities (UXT®)Salient360® Enhanced Forecasts and Enriched Analysis
Salient UXT®
How it works:
Microsoft Excel®
Access Salient360 through your Excel® toolbar.
Salient360 moves data at any level from UXT into Excel®.
Microsoft Excel®
Incorporate soft knowledge (events, conditions, etc.) Refine budgets with calculations and statistical analyses.
Salient360 transforms the Excel® data into files you can bring back into UXT to monitor the accuracy of your assumptions.
Salient360™
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IV. Additional Capabilities (UXT®)Salient Alerts™ Web-Based Intelligent Messaging & Notification
SalientAlerts™
Add-On for Salient Performance Management Solutions:
Let the data alert you to potential problem areas.
Automatically notify your sales force who is and who isn’t buying products in their region. Alert branch locations when the Days of Supply for that critical product is low. Salient’s new web service application, The Web Alerts, provides the ability to match sales reps to customer information, ensuring that exactly the right people receive exactly the right information.
This customizable system will allow managers to create exception criteria to alert a targeted group of users. These alerts can be delivered daily, weekly, monthly or whenever and wherever critical information is needed.
The Alert Wizard guides you through the process of creating alerts. Choose to have alerts forwarded to your PDA, laptop, cell phone, or third party application. As long as you can access the internet, Salient’s Web Alerts will keep you informed.
Define your subscription time period. Send out daily alerts to your sales force giving them direction to start the day, or deliver monthly status reports to traveling executives.
The answer can be sent to those who need the answers via the internet to their PDA’s, cell phone’s or e-mail.
Salient has deployed a complex combination of technology to provide you instant access to your data wherever you go.
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IV. Additional Capabilities (SIM™)Load&Go™ Mobile Utility Add-on
Load&Go™
Salient Performance Management Hits the Road
Every day, Salient Performance Management provides business professionals with the vital information needed to make important decisions, but sometimes busy users don’t have the time or the means to connect to the corporate server or Internet.
That’s why Salient created the Load & Go™ Mobile Data Analysis Utility. From representatives in the field to executives away on long trips, Load & Go users can “load” any section of the master database on nearly any computer and “go” mobile, without any network or Internet connection.
Fast Start-Up: Load & Go takes just a few minutes to install and run, providing a fully-functional system (including customized database, Server, and Minder Viewer client) on nearly any machine.
Full Mobility: Once the database is “loaded”, users can run the Salient Management system anywhere...at home, in a car, on an airplane...without any access to the Internet.
Customized, fully-secure data access: Load & Go selectively grants access to different parts of the database. For example, provide the regional manager information about his region, grant an executive access to the whole database, give sales people access to sales data while restricting cost of goods sold and margins.
Easy remote synchronization: The latest information is just a few mouse-clicks away, over nearly any network or Internet connection. Load & Go does all of the work, determining exactly which information the user needs.
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How it WorksInstalled on a corporate server, the Load & Go Replication Server manages and optimizes requests from client machines. Any number of users can quickly load information through a local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), or dial-up connection, either directly or through a port in the corporate firewall.
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IV. Additional Capabilities (SIM™)iMinder® Remote Web Access for the SIM™ Desktop Client
Share, Collaborate, and Synchronize with Trading Partners via a Web Portal
Share Business Activity Facts over the Web with Suppliers and Trading Partners
Provide Tailored Access to Relevant Business Facts for Suppliers
Collaborate with Usable Feedback with Usable Feedback for Retailers, Suppliers, and
Sales Partners
Help Suppliers Forecast for timely and accurate Inventory Replenishment
Create a Portal on a Corporate Website for remote employees & trading partners
Why i-Minder:
It is a single point of support for many users, simplifying IT•
Full power of the Salient Interactive Miner (SIM) •
Delivered over the web via thin client•
While Salient does offer a pure browser-based solution called Salient Web-View, many individuals still want the full capability of our installed client delivered via a web portal. For them, i-Minder is the perfect fit.
iMinder®
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Salient Interactive Miner
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IV. Additional Capabilities (SIM™)Geo™ Point and Click Location Intelligence
Add-On for Salient Performance Management Solutions:
Geo-spatial intelligence for new insights and improved efficiency
How are we doing geographically, do any warehouses need more product?
Should we consider re-routing because of where certain accounts are in proximity to one another?
Which accounts geographically are “in the yellow” or “in the red” – not meeting expectations?
Geo connects to mapping web sites You can link points on the map to popular mapping sites on the Internet (for example, Google™ Maps). This integration provides several capabilities. For example, click on a point on the map to get driving directions, satellite images, related web sites, and more. You can even include your own labels, such as customer names, on the resulting maps. The functionality is available with InfoShare and may be licensed separately.
Location by Volume – Here markers show volumes for each location. The largest, darkest circles represent the highest volumes.
Location by Margin – Just click to change the data field. Now, the largest circles represent the greatest margins.
Geo connects to mapping websites The circle tool lets you select locations within a certain radius and then list them out.
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IV. Additional Capabilities (SIM™)Geo™ Point and Click Location Intelligence
Mapping by attribute Location markers typically indicate magnitude or change, but you can easily switch to a view showing location attributes (for example, type, territory, etc.). Different types of markers indicate characteristics of the location. These maps can reveal inconsistencies, inefficiencies or areas of opportunity.
Thematic maps View averages and totals for areas within the map. Shades of color can indicate the average, total, difference, or percent change for all the locations within each region, state, county, town, etc. Spot areas with unusually high or low results, compare percent change across counties, get an easy overview of geographic trends. Thematic mapping is available together with or instead of mapping by location.
Demographics Map layers oftentimes contain valuable statistics about demographics (income, sex, age, family size, ethnicity, etc.). Salient Geo can use this information, plotting it on the map for easy integration with your data. Like thematic mapping, each area within the map is shaded bases on its demographic average or total. This provides valuable new insights for marketing, planning, product assortments, penetration, etc.
Then use one or more of the following tools:
- Select an individual location or area - Select locations or areas within a square, circle or polygon - Reverse the selection (i.e. select all locations not currently selected)
Once you’ve selected locations, click to list them out along with their performance metrics, or turn them into a collection for further analysis.
To find out more about a single location, just right-click on it. A pop-up window shows its attributes and description.
Highlight Characteristics – Highlighting makes it easy to spot locations with significantly decreased volumes.
Spatial Relationships – Customers (circles) and assets (red squares) appear together on the map.
Attributes – Mapping by channel.
Thematic – Average price across counties. The darkest counties have the highest prices.
Demographics – Average age across county subdivisions. The darkest counties have the highest average age.
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The Salient Difference
How Salient Technology is DifferentAt Salient we understand economics and we know how business-minded individuals need to relate to business activity to measure and improve results.
Typical Business Intelligence (BI) Tools
Tool-Kit
The views, analytical capabilities, and more need to be built
by an IT team before a solution is ready
Flexible Report Writing
Inflexible resulting views are pre-determined – assuming
the business question is always the same
Built for the Information Producer
Typically the solutions are built so that technical staff can
create and maintain reports for management.
Reporting-Based, Pre-Set Hierarchy
If you may want to see it, it needs to be thought of and
created ahead of time or redesigned on an ongoing basis
Partially Interactive
Has some visual interactive capability; but most interactive
capabilities are too technical and difficult that they are
reserved for IT report-writers to develop views
Departmentalized
Most reporting-based solutions summarize or
departmentalize data to increase speed / response time
Required Set-up
Depending on the number of individuals being served,
technical resources are needed to create all potential views
Modification Assistance
Services are needed from an internal or external technical
resource to create new or modify existing drillable report
views on an as-needed basis
Salient Performance Management
Business-Ready
The solution is already built to be “business-logical” enabling rapid deployment, and greater
ease-of-use
Flexible Business-Driven Capability
Business users know what question they want to ask, how to frame the question, and what
they want to ask next
Built for the Information Consumer
Instead of traditional “push” reporting, Salient enables situational “pull” access
Associative, Flexible Drill-Path
Built the way people think, performing new context selection and calculations on-the-fly
rather than having to pre-set
Fully Interactive
All the visualizations let you list items of interest, see more about them, focus in on them,
or change how you framed your “Bookmark” or business question
Immediate Access to Details
All un-summarized details are easily available; it is the details that make facts actionable.
Scalable without sacrificing detailed facts
Minimal Consulting or Technical Services
Consulting focuses on logically grouping your business information and then “Mission-
Based” training
Complete Autonomy vs. Ongoing Set-up
Requires no consulting or technical services to create or modify views once data is loaded
in the application. It is business-user driven; simply “Bookmark” standard views
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Client Testimony
“The Salient application is very fast. You don’t lose continuity. You don’t lose focus.”
Rick Cottingham, Havell’s SLI
“Salient gives us a good window on how we’re doing in the supermarkets and it allows us a great deal of flexibility in how we look at the data.”
Carvel Ice Cream
“On a day-to-day basis, we can get a gross profit report by product packaging… It used to take 8-9 days.”
Curt Root, Controller, Gillette Group
“Volume used to be king. It’s not anymore. It’s profitability and margin. Salient has a great product. It’s quick. It’s easy. It’s just virtually maintenance free. Would I recommend it to others? In a heartbeat.”
Salient Client of 10+ Years
“It’s revolutionary... It’s a real client-server system with on-line, real-time information that we get on a daily basis.”
Silver Eagle Distributing Co.
“The system exceeded our expectations. The result is a 3% recovery in the operating margin.”
Neuri Amábile F. Pereira, Spaipa S.A. Industria, Brasileira de Bebidas
Over 35,000 users now in 53 countries
Consider what a few of them are saying.
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