Vanguard System Overview

Across the Enterprise

Vanguard's flexibility enables it to be used in any functional area from Finance to Marketing and Sales to Operations. More importantly, Vanguard's collaborative capabilities enable these groups to work together on enterprise planning and analysis efforts.

For many companies, "collaboration" is when one group simply throws information over the wall to another group. That group then manipulates the information and throws it over another wall to another group. With this type of inefficiency and disorganization, critical details get lost in translation. Assumptions get taken out of context. And decision-makers lose confidence in the results they receive.

Vanguard breaks down silos of segregated departments that do not integrate strategies by unifying and streamlining planning and analysis activities. With Vanguard, individuals simultaneously contribute in their areas of expertise, creating a real-time Collective Intelligence that is otherwise unachievable. Vanguard improves your enterprise productivity and the quality and reliability of your analysis.

From Analyst to CEO

Vanguard lets individuals at all levels within an organization work with planning and analysis models in a way that makes most sense for them.

• Analysts and consultants use Vanguard’s modeling interface to collaboratively build and analyze models for business decisions.
  
• Individuals throughout an organization apply the models as interactive Web applications.
  
• Stakeholders from across the enterprise can view the models, explore assumptions, and play their own “what-if” games - all from a Web browser.
  
• Executive managers use their Web browsers to access real-time reports such as the latest profit forecasts or corporate risk profiles.