Graphical Performance Series® (GPS) is powerful, practical technology that enables companies to measure, manage and improve their performance. The GPS solution is designed with the flexibility to support a broad range of business environments and user types, while providing the functionality to deliver real value.

Enterprise Reporting
GPS enables business users to easily author, publish, and distribute enterprise reports. GPS has a fully integrated report writer, with an easy-to-use report-creation wizard, as well as the power to customize and tailor reports to specific information needs. The report writing and graphing capabilities enable even non-technical users to easily create and share clear representations of complex business conditions. The report writer is flexible and easy to use, but also incorporates advanced features like exception filtering and highlighting, calculations with subqueries, rankings, drill-through, and more.

OLAP
GPS includes intuitive, point-and-click features that enable business users to dynamically analyze business information from multiple perspectives. Users are able to perform multi-dimensional analysis, slice and dice data sets, and drill down to additional detail, all using integrated On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology. This analytical functionality is available whether users are connected to the Internet or are working off-line.

Trend Analysis
Business users are able to quickly and easily identify performance trends by utilizing GPS' time-phased information analysis and graphing capabilities. GPS supports more sophisticated data analysis with full calculated field capabilities integrated into reports. This enables users to quickly isolate and identify products, customers, regions, or other areas that are trending significantly up or down. GPS also includes a fully-integrated, powerful data graphing function that enables users to create detailed data visualizations. The graphing capability is entirely dynamic, meaning that users can rapidly click through various report parameters and see graphical representations for each combination.

Enterprise Deployment
Vanguard GPS' Deployment function automatically generates and publishes customized, updated Information Views to business users. Information Views are user-defined, personalized views (OLAP cubes), with powerful data analysis, report-writing, and graphing capabilities, in a fully integrated, easy-to-use environment. Business users may receive personalized, updated information views on a pre-defined schedule via email, over a network, or by accessing a web page. This publication model provides timely access to business-critical information, utilizing existing business infrastructure to reach users wherever they are. It also reduces the burden on corporate systems by working off-peak and delivering highly customized information.

Security
Graphical Performance Series® provides full application security, enabling administrators to define access down to the field level for multiple data types. Additionally, GPS security defines access to data-specific filters, such as sales territory, business unit, or location. GPS includes an easy-to-use application for security setup that does not require complex database security applications.