Infor Program Cost Ledger - Overview
The project managers require a reporting tool, that generates both Budget cost, revenue and schedule reports at different levels to evaluate the performance of a project and to view the overall project performance, using graphs and reports.
Business intelligence (BI) refers to software-based techniques used to identify, extract and analyze data related to the project and the contract. The common functions of BI reporting technology are analytics, forecast analytics, and so on.
The BI Reporting tool facilitates graphical representation of the analysis based on the data that the tool receives from Infor LN, such as expected costs, actual costs, planned dates, actual dates, expected schedule, actual schedule and so on. Using the tool, the manager can view, study and analyze the data in different forms, at different levels and based on different parameters.
The tool also generates alerts, in case of a deviation in any of the business values. The record with the deviated value in the report is highlighted, to alert the user.
The metrics and reports can be generated using the Infor ION BI Reporting tool in these dashboards: