Enterprise Performance & Risk Management

Effective enterprise performance and risk management techniques often play a major part in the overall success of a public and private sector organisation.

SPAR.net delivers a host of risk and performance management capabilities that enable auditing to be conducted quickly and effectively to provide qualitative and quantitative assessments and analysis. These two key product features make the capture of risk and performance data a simple process by maintaining detailed assessment against multiple user-defined objectives.

SPAR.net provides a performance management system that can deliver all performance management data through a single point of access to any user, based on their profile and needs; from high-level graphical indicators, to low level details about each measure, with links to associated projects, risks, budgets, strategy documents, action plans and comments.

This easy to implement software allows you to quickly map your existing performance and risk management processes. However, the real power of SPAR.net is its ability to see the organisation's direction and communicate your performance in real time. Balanced Scorecards enable a strategic line of vision, with the ability to drill-down to specific projects and indicators that are linked to your overall objectives.

The identification, evaluation and control of risks should form a central part of any performance management strategy. It is essential that you have a mechanism in place to help bring severe risks into acceptable tolerances. With fully-featured risk management functionality, SPAR.net helps you to ensure that you have the tools to do everything possible to identify, mitigate and eliminate potential risks.

Integrated Budget & Project Management

The SPAR.net activity based budget and project management features integrate neatly with the performance indicator and alert system. This allows authorised personnel to quickly and easily get a "snap-shot" of the progress of each project. This helps you to make confident and informed decisions based on real-time and historical information.

Simple process adjustments using SPAR.net budgets and project management tools will give your organisation substantial benefits in terms of responsiveness and capability. Unifying your projects, budgets, risks and performance information into one application streamlines collaborative enterprise performance management.

The provision to react quickly to events makes it simpler to achieve constructive change and hit both financial and service delivery performance targets.

SPAR.net provides features that are designed to integrate with your PRINCE2 project management framework, helping you to monitor all components of the methodology within a single application.

Flexible Permissions & Devolved Administration

SPAR.net creates a secure, simple to manage platform, capable of rapidly distributing profile based roles and permissions to any user who has access to the corporate network. From Data Collector to Executive, the flexible permissions allow you to decide who can interact, view and edit information.

The cost effective organisation-wide licensing model means that the system can be easily extended to any number of internal users or external partners who require access to the system. You can set-up relevant metrics, goals and strategies in order for any authorised user to measure the effectiveness of the organisation's projects, budgets, PIs, risk assessments and corporate objectives.

Your administrators and end users use a web browser to access the features and information that are relevant to them. A user's profile can be suitably tailored to allow you to deliver collaborative Service, Performance and Risk management tools to specific individuals. A personalised welcome screen is provided for every user with instant access to relevant reports and visual indicators. The application also records a comprehensive audit trail to provide a complete record of all changes made to the system by users.

Visual Indicators & Email Alerts

SPAR.net provides dynamic visual performance indicators and reports using "traffic lighting" to indicate the status of an activity within the system. The software issues email alerts when data needs to be input against assigned activities. It will alert the recipient that something requires action by emailing them a hyperlink to the user's task page. All email reminders can be customised to suit your organisation's requirements.

The flexible permissions features allow you to specify who receives email alerts. For example, you can specify that only performance officers or senior executives should receive an alert. A "sign-off" facility can also be used to manage the review and verification of data input, at specified reporting intervals.

Your users will appreciate the time saving performance monitoring features as they enhance and underpin the expanded view of the organisation that SPAR.net provides.

Manage Performance with External Partners

It is possible to host the SPAR.net application internally for employees and externally for third parties, partners and authorised users.

The software can be used to monitor many different external relationships including local area agreements, private sector partnerships, project and contract monitoring or virtually any type of process that requires efficient performance management.

Data input can be shared with external partners and you can grant users secure access to specific indicators relevant to them.

Local & National Performance Comparison

SPAR.net is capable of holding local and national statistical information for comparison and benchmarking purposes. Comparisons can instantly be made against internal activities over periods of time to analyse trends. Data can also be compared against national quartiles or using data supplied from other organisations.

Specifically for Councils, National PI data for authority types and "All England" can be imported into SPAR.net to reduce input time. This data can be used to provide your organisation with real-time comparisons against key targets and guidelines.

We can assist organisations to import data from a variety of sources including spreadsheets, existing legacy systems, 3^rd party business applications and national performance data including the new National Indicator (NI) suite.

Advanced Reporting & Statistical Analysis

SPAR.net provides a comprehensive authoring environment for a wide range of report types. It enables you to create reports for any purpose, in a variety of formats.

Reports can be filtered by a wide variety of criteria, from the individual PI, Project or Risk to Responsible Officer, Service, Prefix, Status, Quartile and Flags. In addition, the date of the report can be set and the reporting periods and the time period covered can be specified, along with the columns to be displayed.

Reports can be saved in a Reports Library and quickly organised for easy future access. Individual users can access a pre-defined selection of Reports from their ‘My Reports' button on their Welcome Page. All reports are output in HTML format and can be easily saved or copied and pasted into standard office applications, intranets and websites.