Compas gives your team a single place to map out your planned marketing or other activities. Sales and financial forecasts are generated from the plan and shared throughout the company. Changes to the plan automatically update the forecast and can be tracked over time
What is Compas?
Plan, monitor and evaluate business activities in one place. Build sales forecasts directly from the marketing plan. Compas is a lightweight Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) tool that helps you manage your business without relying on risky and complicated spreadsheets. Budgeting, and monitoring performance against budget, are greatly simplified with Compas.
Monitor
Data feeds allow you to track campaign performance in real time and update the plan as required. Internal and external data sources can be combined to provide a 360-degree view of customer behaviour. Reforecast marketing campaigns with a single click and let the system automatically recalculate the sales and profit implications
Evaluate
Armed with the results of marketing activities and their longer-term effects, your team can gain an in-depth understanding of how to deliver greater value. This feeds back into future planning, improving the quality of decisions and the accuracy of forecasts – true data-driven marketing
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Applications
Compas offers a highly flexible framework that can be applied to any spreadsheet-based planning or reporting application. It is perfect for turning marketing plans into sales forecasts, for matching supply and demand, or for financial planning and analysis. It also offers a flexible reporting platform which allows all your internal and external data to be viewed in one place
Marketing
View all your marketing activities in one place. Turn marketing plans into sales and revenue forecasts. Update your plans dynamically based on the latest actuals and have all forecasts recalculate automatically. Particularly well suited to direct marketing and subscription-based businesses
Financial planning and analysis
Compas is perfect for budgeting and financial analysis. Budgets can be tied directly to marketing and investment plans, so changes to the plan automatically recalculate the P&L. Versioning allows changes to be tracked over time and data can be exported to Excel for further analysis
Operations
Improve achieved margin, reduce inventory costs and minimise wastage by building more accurate and detailed forecasts of supply and demand than are possible in a spreadsheet. Optimise resourcing levels by having better visibility of future sales and marketing activity - and being able to see when plans change
Pricing
Pricing is negotiated individually, based on business size and the features required. Compas provides the integrated planning and reporting capabilities of an ERP or bespoke system, at a fraction of the cost. Typically, Compas starts to generate a return in its first year of deployment, through a combination of improved margin, increased sales and greater efficiency
Implementing Compas
When you decide to go ahead, getting on board with Compas can be easier than you think.
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Scoping (about 1 week)
We work with you to map out the necessary data sources in your organisation and understand your requirements, so we can scope out how Compas will be set up for maximum benefit.
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Configuration (2-8 weeks)
Based on your requirements, we set up Compas for your use. This entails establishing data interfaces, customising business logic and reporting and so on, to ensure that Compas will give you exactly what you need.
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Roll-out
Once you've confirmed that everything in Compas meets your requirements, the system is then rolled out to users. We provide full training and support as necessary.
About us
Compas has been built by Golden Orb, a management consultancy that has been developing analytical software for leading companies for 20 years. Golden Orb specialises in helping organisations with planning and forecasting so that they can achieve a greater return on investment
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