Accenture Pre-Contract Analytics

Accenture

Overview

Accenture Pre-Contract Analytics fills a significant gap in a pharmaceutical company's pre-deal analysis capabilities. It offers companies the foresight to shape contracts, optimize revenue and ROI, and offer the right discounts to customers before anything gets signed.

The capability offers a closed-loop solution for identifying opportunities, evaluating customer performance, forecasting proposed performance, garnering internal approvals, and negotiating and finalizing the deal.

Benefits


  • Dynamic business modeling capabilities
  • High participation analytics
  • Data-driven decision-making
  • Real business ROI

Features

Pre-Contract Analytics provides easy-to-manipulate business models to better predict financial impacts of contract terms and market conditions. When a new contract opportunity is identified, the user can open a planning model to evaluate contract alternatives and compare scenarios.

Other functionality includes the ability to:
  • Adjust market conditions and events, and create scenarios to test contracting options.
  • Automatically load historical sales and contract information.
  • Collect notes on each scenario and track all changes.
  • Conduct driver-based modeling that links to operational data to enable forecasting and planning.
  • Easily create complex predictive calculations based on multiple variables.
  • Present information as part of a contract management dashboard.
  • Monitor KPIs and contract milestones and make other users aware of these events.
  • Report on or automatically integrate contract information into PowerPoint decks for presentations using Cognos Connection.

Architecture

The solution is Web-based and easily deployed across the organization. Designed for companies with even the most complex business models, IBM Cognos 8 Planning is a fully integrated, highly scalable solution for planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

It also includes the power of IBM Cognos 8 BI, which provides decision-makers with a consistent, accurate view of information to better manage performance. It offers users a complete range of BI capabilities including analysis, scorecarding, and reporting on a single architecture.

Availability

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