Clear Analytics

What do you like best?

This is a highly flexible software that allows us to leverage our knowledge and familiarity with excel to real, valuable data and manipulate it in ways we could have never practically done before. In looking at generating usable reports using other options, getting the data we needed was just not a practical options due to the lack of knowledge on how to build database formulas. It was also easier to achieve buy in from other managers, as they fell more comfortable with excel reports.

What do you dislike?

We have integrated this with Microsoft BI and have really overcome the negatives at this time such as lack of mobile access and some of the more advanced visuals.

What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?

We wanted to create a shared services model for different divisions to better track the profitability of departments, product segments and employees. Our current software just didn't have a way to dice the data into P&L's this way, so that began our quest for a data tool to do this. We now are able to split our reporting in ways that we never could before, as well as create metrics from various programs with minimal data entry. We have since added reports and KPI's that we are using to identify initiatives and drive improvements, as well as prioritize spending and identify areas of expansion and market opportunities.