Acorn Performance Analyzer 5G Web Help

Welcome to Acorn Performance Analyzer 5G. This reporting solution provides quick, dynamic, customizable reports on multi-faceted aspects of your business. It provides a powerful analysis and communication tool, providing dramatic insight into your organization's costs and profits.

Use Performance Analyzer reports to analyze the current environment in your organization. The reports help identify the following:

• Specific customers and products that require attention
• Accuracy of the current segmentation approach
• Effect of internal and external costs on the price a customer ultimately pays for a product or service
• Acorn Performance Analyzer reports are generated as Web Parts and accessible through the Acorn Content Server, enabling users to view them through a browser. Users can generate powerful and relevant reports very quickly using the Acorn report templates and Web Parts. In addition, customized reports can be easily designed and implemented by Acorn consultants and partners.

Web Help Content

• Installation and Configuration. This section describes the prerequisites needed before installing PA5G, as well as instruction steps and instructions on how to use the Configuration Tool to connect your database with the software.
• Product Overview. This section describes the basic user graphic interface of the application, including the samples of screen shots and details of each screen's function.
• Working with Data. This section provides information regarding data upload, management, and deletion, including how to work the tables and filter options to view specific data.
• Model Properties. This section offers details regarding model set-up, including adding users, managing scenarios, and uploading new attributes of various data components.
• Developing Statements. This section describes the steps to create financial statements using model data, and how to alter or delete preexisting statements.
• Creating Business Rules. This section details the steps needed to create business rules, including business dimensions, resources and their pools, general ledger accounts and assignments, and support resources.
• Managing the Model and Its Data. This section describes advanced model actions, including adding exchange rates, sessions, process rates, general ledger amounts, and using the Universal Connector.
• PA5G Migration. This section is about migration process and migration tool, which is developed to make migration process easier.

Printed Documentation

• Click here to view the Acorn Performance Analyzer 5G User Guide in pdf format.

About Acorn Systems

Acorn Systems provides profit improvement solutions that enable clients to maximize revenue, minimize cost, and improve operational efficiencies. Acorn reveals profit improvement opportunities across the enterprise — customers, channels, segments, products, vendors and processes — enabling clients to make continuous, fact-based decisions to improve their bottom line. Acorn’s unique and proven approach to profit improvement is used by leaders in Financial Services, Retail, Consumer Products, Manufacturing, Distribution and Logistics, who have realized over $1B in annual profit improvements and created over $9B in new shareholder value.

Feedback

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