Presentation Views & Data Visualization Options:
- Strategy Maps & Visual Maps
- Dynamic Drill Downs
- Balanced Scorecards
- Displays trend charts, gauges, spider charts, control charts, and other user-configurable chart types
- KPI/Metric Detail Pages
- Displays user-specific views (based on ownership and preferences)
- Users may upload images, links, and other content
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- ActiveViews for fully customizable, interactive views
- Dashboards
- Six Sigma Dashboards
- Measure ImpactViews
- Stoplight Charts
- Support for linked & grouped Perspectives, Objectives, Measures & Initiatives
- Tracks and displays commentary from owners and managers
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Metric & Data Management Features:
- Automated Measure Roll-Up with support for formulas
- Measure hierarchies may be based on mathematical, as well as causal relationships (where leading measures do not mathematically roll up)
- Configurable stoplight indicators
- Automated data loading
- Secure (128 bit SSL encryption) mass data loading—even over public networks
- Unlimited Parent/Child/Sibling Measures
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- Multiple targets available for each measure (YTD, QTD, Benchmark, etc.)
- Support of numerical and non-numerical measures (Good, Very Good, A,B,C, etc.)
- Multiple data upload options including: CSV, Tab delimited, XML, ODBC directly from other systems (requires DBA), fixed-length data sources, ActiveStrategy iRound, and manual data entry
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Initiative & Project Management Features:
- Initiatives may have tasks, milestones, and action items
- Initiatives may be linked to any ASE object and displayed on scorecards, dashboards, etc.
- Indicators for budget, timing, quality, risk, and scope available
- Gantt chart
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- Unlimited Parent/Child/Sibling Initiatives
- Program Groups collect multiple initiatives
- Phases allow additional grouping of initiatives and program groups by category, timing, responsible department, etc.
- Calculated fields (% complete, cost, and effort)
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Usability Features:
- User-specific email alerts and subscriptions
- Ad-hoc reports
- Many built-in administrative and management reports
- Administrative audit logs to track changes
- Security based on ownership and organizational hierarchy
- Built-in user help
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- User-defined "favorites" page
- Single-sign-on capable
- Distributed administration features for domain-level administration
- Administrative capability to copy scorecards, objectives, and measures
- Cross-browser support
- Supports internationalization
- Save to PDF included
- User-level viewing preferences
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Performance Management Areas Supported:
- Strategic Planning
- Strategy Deployment & Strategy Management
- Scorecard Cascading and Deployment
- Cascaded, Leading/Lagging Measures and Key Performance Indicators
- Customizable Scorecard Exception & Business Plan Reports
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- Performance Improvement
- Balanced Scorecards
- Lean Six Sigma Management
- Initiative and Project Management
- Baldrige Performance Excellence Framework
- Employee Goal Alignment
- Budget Integration
- Operational Dashboards
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Simple to Get Started:
- Web-based and quick to deploy (available as a cloud-based service or ASE 10 may be hosted on your premises)
- ActiveStart implementation packages combine training and workshops to effectively transfer knowledge and best practices to your team
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- GSA schedule listed
- Scalable from 10 to 1000s of users
- ActiveStrategy expert strategic consulting teams available to help you build scorecards, metrics, or other performance management content
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Though we've tried to cover key features here, this list is
certainly not exhaustive. Please contact us if you are
looking for functionality not listed here.
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