Business intelligence and reporting dashboards

We pull the group's numbers into a board dashboard and an operations dashboard, each built from a measure book that holds the definition, formula, owner and source of every figure. The book comes first and the dashboard follows it.

We build in the reporting tool your group already uses, and choose one with you when the group has nothing in place.

• A measure book with definitions, formulas, owners and sources.
• A board dashboard: group, entity, brand and channel margin, cash and service on one page.
• An operations dashboard for dispatch, stock and fulfilment performance.
• A data model that joins ledger, order and delivery data on shared keys.
• A refresh and sign-off calendar showing who approves which view.
• A short user guide and a walkthrough for the board secretary.

• Every figure on the board page carries a signed definition and source.
• The board view refreshes sooner after month end, measured in days from month end to the refreshed view.
• Old reports are retired as the dashboard replaces them.
• Questions from the board get an answer within the week.
• Dashboard figures reconcile to the ledger, and the share that reconcile is shown beside each view.

Most groups already have dashboards. Few have agreed definitions behind them. Revenue means one thing in sales and another in finance, delivery cost is counted differently by each team, and meetings are spent arguing about the number instead of the decision.

• Two reports show different revenue for the same month.
• Your delivery cost per order is calculated differently by operations and finance.
• Brand margins are available only after a manual rebuild.
• Dashboards are admired in the meeting and ignored afterwards.
• The board asks questions that nobody can answer inside the week.

Chairmen and chief executives who receive several reports with different numbers, and finance and operations leaders asked to produce a group view across entities, brands and channels each month.

Qasim Abbas brought more than seven companies at Nexxo Pay and QPay International onto one set of numbers. Every dashboard we build reconciles to your ledger before the board reads it, so each figure on screen traces back to its source.

We build in whichever reporting tool the group already pays for, including spreadsheet-based models, fed from your ledger, order system and dispatch platform. See how fees work.

Which tool should we use?

The tool your team will open on the day of the board meeting, with every figure drawn from the measure book.

How many measures belong on a board page?

Few enough to read in a sitting. The measure book holds all of them, and the page shows the ones the board decides on.

Can the dashboard show forecasts?

Yes. The board page shows the forecast, and we build that forecast in budgeting, forecasting and scenario modelling.

Write down the three questions you would put to your numbers tomorrow. We show how a dashboard would answer them.