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Essential Business Intelligence, Analysis and Reporting

Specifically designed for MAPICS

Vanguard’s Graphical Performance Series® (GPS) is a world-class solution that empowers business people to intelligently analyze and apply information from your business systems. GPS is essential to answering your analysis and reporting needs, helping you to manage your business more effectively in this ever-changing business environment. You’ll find that GPS is affordable, easy to implement and intuitive to use.

Vanguard’s solutions are focused on mid-sized manufacturers and distributors, leveraging our deep domain expertise in these industries and providing proven customer results.

Ready-to-use analytics

Vanguard provides you with a business intelligence, analytics and reporting application that is ready-to-use. GPS has robust integration to MAPICS, dramatically reducing the cost, complexity and time-to-value of deploying business intelligence and analytics solutions. GPS is a suite with pre-built business content, including analytics, reports, graphs, and key performance indicators, delivering immediate insight and business value out-of-the-box. The business analytics are built on industry best practices, as well as Vanguard's deep domain expertise in manufacturing and distribution.

GPS for MAPICS offers a unique level of business agility and transparency, enabling the users to quickly identify the key performance factors that drive profitability. Analytic views, reports and graphs, with integration to MAPICS, are available in the areas of: Sales analysis, Financial analysis, Inventory & Purchasing analysis, Manufacturing/Operations analysis.

Proven results

Our customers recognize significant cost savings and find new revenue opportunities through their use of GPS. Listen to what they have to say:

"With Vanguard GPS's unique ability to easily combine data from multiple systems and platforms without building a data warehouse, I was able to combine data from my MAPICS system with SAP data from a newly acquired Merck division in Europe, all in less than a week.” 

Biomet

"Vanguard GPS empowers non-IT managers by placing useful management information at their fingertips in an analytical format and intuitive interface."

"With Vanguard GPS, our sales and marketing executives were able to quickly analyze the impact of material cost increases from our suppliers.  We were able to take existing data and plug these percentage figures into data cubes, and analyze the impact of the increases in a matter of minutes.  The flexibility of the product and its ease of use allows non-IT people to analyze data quickly and make sound business decisions from the results."

"DMI has a sales force that is constantly traveling and meeting with customers.  Vanguard's eDeployment feature lets us distribute important sales information to them on a daily basis, wherever they are.  The ability to review sales results, account status information, customer order status and customer profitability has made our sales team more effective, and our company more profitable."

DMI Furniture

Multi-Site Direct Access to MAPICS data

Vanguard's Direct Access approach delivers powerful business intelligence, analytics and reporting, without requiring a data warehouse or data mart. GPS retrieves data stored in one or many enterprise transaction systems and delivers it to the user in a fully integrated, business-focused information view. GPS is the answer to your need to allow business personnel to quickly and flexibly consolidate data from multiple sites, various databases and in multiple currencies. This technology has compelling advantages for medium-sized businesses, including upfront and reoccurring cost savings, quick implementation and better business agility.

Learn more about GPS for MAPICS

We look forward to providing more information and answering your questions. Please contact Vanguard at 1-888-560-4477, or via our contact form »

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"Vanguard GPS is a tool that enables me to analyze many aspects of our business quickly and easily. The different filter options available allow me to customize the views with a variety of looks that lend perspective to the analysis."
Tim Tate
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T. Marzetti

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