Collaborate

The knowledge your business needs in order to plan effectively is divided between individuals who are spread throughout your organization. The Vanguard System frees you from having to rely on the analysis of a single planner with second-hand knowledge of critical operations. Instead, it directly involves key individuals in a collaborative planning process.

Vanguard's collaboration abilities go well beyond simple communication strategies like Web conferencing. Rather, Vanguard is based on principles of knowledge capture. Individuals throughout your organization use our innovative model-based approach to describe to the Vanguard System how they make decisions or perform particular tasks. In doing this, users capture knowledge, or know-how, that is specific to your business. The Vanguard System can combine the knowledge captured by many individuals to create a Collective Intelligence that is useful for testing business plans and automating routine operations.

Analyze

Vanguard's powerful modeling and simulation technology allows you to test business alternatives in a virtual world where mistakes are inexpensive. Instead of helping you know only what happens, Vanguard will help you understand why. What's more, Vanguard can help you anticipate future risks and opportunities so that you can act rather than react.

There are a number of business modeling tools available on the market. What's unique about Vanguard is that it does modeling on an Enterprise scale. From the ability to coordinate the work of hundreds of individuals to the ability to run simulations at 1,500 times the speed of spreadsheets, the Vanguard System's power is unmatched.

Automate

Many management processes were once considered too complex or too fluid to automate. As a result, routine business planning in most companies involves copying and pasting data between spreadsheets, re-building old models, and a significant amount of gut-feel decision-making. Although this process can work, it is very inefficient and expensive.

Vanguard improves the speed, reliability, and quality of routine decisions by combining its business modeling capabilities with Expert System technology. Instead of having your management team repeat the same analysis monthly, you have people in the team describe how they perform their analysis to the Vanguard System. Then, in effect, the Vanguard System learns the process and can repeat it for you.

You get business automation via an easy-to-use Web interface without the need for an expensive IT development.

Improve

Whether it is knowledge-based collaboration, simulations at 1,500 times the speed of spreadsheets, or advanced Expert Systems technology, each of these Vanguard capabilities is a technological breakthrough in and of itself. However, taken together, Vanguard sets a new benchmark in management systems.

It will improve your company's decision-making by improving the analysis on which these decisions are based.

It will improve the quality of your analysis by encouraging collaboration and the application of state-of-the-art techniques.

And, it will improve your productivity by simplifying the modeling process and by encouraging reuse of prior work.

Vanguard has the potential to transform your business by improving management team decisions rather than simply analyzing operational data.