1. Event Driven Information Systems
Al Conway President
AGC, Incorporated

2. Event Driven Information Systems
Bringing Business Intelligence to Your Company

3. “The machine then selects the likely equations from a complicated pattern of theoretical probables. It calculates these, and the correct answer is printed on a card. Then our Miss Swenson files them God knows where, and we can never find the damn things again.”

4. What is Event Driven IS? Data Monitoring with Automatic Delivery
Create queries against company data
Automatic delivery to proper individuals to make decisions with real time information

5. This transforms your organization from rear-view mirror to windshield-based management

6. This means the right information is delivered to the right person at the right time for the right decision

7. “Well, being single and a robot, I’m able to put in a lot of overtime

8. Examples
Accounting
Sales
Production
Human Resources

9. Accounting Accounts Receivable Traditional
Task Scheduled (example: 1st of the month)
Run Aging Reports Monthly 30, 60, 90 day buckets
Unscheduled task if cash flow crisis
Event Driven – Automatic execution
sent to AR, Salesperson & customer when invoice becomes past due
sent to salesperson on orders placed when customer is on credit hold or is put on credit hold

10. What would that do for your cash flow?

11. “We have lots of information technology
“We have lots of information technology. We just don’t have any information.”

12. Sales Traditional IS Generated
Sales reports are manually created or spreadsheet driven
Time consuming, sometimes late do to other pressing matters
Orders are confirmed on delivery to customer
IS Generated
Automatic report creation and delivery (weekly, monthly)
Report created with security logic (create one report with multiple output results)
Automatic /fax delivery of order confirmation/invoices

13. How much time would this free up to concentrate on business performance?

15. Production Traditional IS Generated
Manual tracking of open orders and customer/vendor delivery dates
Customer calls when orders are late
IS Generated
to Purchasing and Production daily on new customer orders and expected vendor deliveries
on this week’s promised deliveries

16. What would this do to your backlog and customer satisfaction rating?

17. “No, the computers are up. We’re down.”

18. Human Resources Traditional IS Driven
Paper form delivery or word of mouth on new hires and terminations
Performance reviews managed by supervisors or managers
IS Driven
notification to proper parties on all new and terminated employees (Executive, Managers, IT Staff)
report to Supervisors on performance reviews due next days

19. What would that do for employee morale and system security?

20. So, at the end of the day: What if
All of your standard management reports were always delivered on time and didn’t have to rely on staff to create?
Critical data that upset your defined processes were immediately known when they occurred?
Had the information to be proactive and anticipate problems before they occur?

21. Good News! Event Driven IS Systems are one of today’s hot markets
Many Players
Business Objects
Global Software
SAS
Hyperion
Cognos

22. Questions?

23. Event Driven Information Systems
Al Conway President
AGC, Incorporated