Business Intelligence

Information At Your Fingertips

Providing Business Critical Information

Business decisions based on accurate data are always the most successful, meaningful, powerful and influential for any organisation. In order to assist bulk cash handling organisations develop the best strategic decisions, De La Rue has created ECM Business Intelligence, a software solution that consolidates all of your business critical information into one easy to view analysis tool. Activity, from all of your cash centres, irrespective of their location, is continually uploaded giving your management team immediate and continual access to business critical information, thereby allowing for improved and immediate decision making.

Proven Benefits
Speed and ease of implementation on industry platforms Increased operational efficiency through enhanced visibility into key metrics and processes Improved response times to changing market and operational dynamics Remote monitoring of all business critical data Flexible reporting structure enabling reports to be as strategic or as tactical as the business requires Analysis of historical data assists in defining future trends Alignment of best practice methodologies

Informed Decisions, Build Robust Processes

By understanding the flow of activity around your cash centres and having complete visibility of the current processes, your senior management have the tools they need to observe any areas of potential concern. The usage of ECM Business Intelligence can assist in highlighting these areas and provide information to mitigate any risk or to realise improved operational efficiencies. Armed with accurate information, this gives your senior management team the control they need to develop best practice methodologies with greater ease across all of your cash centres. These improved processes make it easier to realise efficiencies in your cash centres by optimising the performance of your available resources, ie your hardware, software and staffing levels.

Customer Profile
ECM Business Intelligence has been specifically designed by experts in the bulk cash handling industry to assist those customers with multiple cash centres. The rationale for ECM Business Intelligence is to obtain improved levels of control for all cash processing activity across the globe. This analytical software consolidates the myriad of data from all regions into an easy to view database that can be interrogated to produce management information with real meaning.

Institutions who have gained value from ECM Business Intelligence are: Commercial banks with multiple cash centres Casinos with multiple soft count rooms Central banks

Planning and Control

By utilising the quantity of historical data made available, ECM Business Intelligence becomes a powerful analysis tool. This software has been designed to be flexible enough to create ad-hoc reports, according to your business needs. Usage of this information can be used to assess potential business trends and future activity levels. These trends can then be aligned with the necessary resources required to meet the demands of cash flow peaks and troughs; thereby ensuring that your cash centres continually run to their optimum and remain within their legislative stock levels, giving you complete control of your business needs. As part of your management information, De La Rue understands that you need to impart information to a number of sources, therefore all data taken from ECM Business Intelligence can be exported into a number of third party applications for use in management reports.

ECM Business Intelligence Solution Architecture

ECM Business Intelligence is a server-based application. Source data is loaded from banknote sorters and vault management systems. De La Rue has designed ECM Business Intelligence on an open architecture so that third party applications and hardware can be connected and the information captured. The central server can be hosted within your organisation and existing firewall, or alternatively we can host the server and provide your nominated users with access to the information.

DE LA RUE
This leaflet is for general guidance only. De La Rue International Limited is pleased to give detailed specifications of its products in this leaflet. As the companys products and services are continually being developed it is important for customers to check that the information contained herein includes the latest particulars. This document is not part of a contract or licence save insofar as may be expressly agreed. De La Rue International Limited acknowledges the proprietary rights in the trademarks and product names of other companies mentioned in this document. De La Rue International Limited 2008

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