Arcplan Selected By Japs-Olson For BI Analysis And Reporting

Online, March 23, 2011 (Newswire.com) - arcplan, the leading provider of innovative business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced that Japs-Olson, a national commercial printing company, has selected arcplan Enterprise® for its BI needs.

Japs-Olson sought a BI solution to further the management team's ability to analyze and report on the company's end-to-end printing and mailing services operation. The new system will automate reporting in a new management dashboard, thus eliminating the need to manually compile data in order to populate routinely required reports. At the same time, the management team will get a powerful way to generate custom, specific reports, which otherwise might require as much as a week to complete. The arcplan Enterprise solution will allow Japs-Olson to systematically access, collect, aggregate, analyze and interact with meaningful information across the entirety of its operation.

"We wanted arcplan because we needed to move away from simple reporting ­­- we needed a tool for analysis," said Gary Petrangelo, Chief Financial Officer for Japs-Olson. "With arcplan Enterprise, we'll be able to spend our time on more valuable analyses rather than data gathering. This will allow us to be more proactive in our decision-making. We'll be able to quickly generate more sophisticated reports and focus on better identifying and taking advantage of opportunities."

Japs-Olson will leverage arcplan Enterprise to perform analyses such as profitability drivers, sales activity analysis, machine and platform utilization and trends, and costing analysis. As a result, the company will be better positioned to take advantage of sales trends and efficiency opportunities as they arise. These data will also be presented within an arcplan-powered visual dashboard that the finance team and other executives can use for custom analysis.

"We are pleased to be selected and are very much looking forward to helping Japs-Olson maximize the benefits it can achieve from arcplan Enterprise," said Jerry Varnum, Vice President of Sales for arcplan in North America. "We believe arcplan Enterprise can help Japs-Olson improve everything from budgeting and forecasting to operational efficiency to cash flow - all leading to greater profit."