Balanced Scorecard Designer :: Metrics Software Comparative Review

General information

Vendor:	AKS-Labs, headquartered in Raleigh, USA.
Web-site	http://strategy2act.com/
Product description	The Balanced Scorecard Designer retains the very essence of the purpose for which the concept of a balanced scorecard was devised in 1992 by Norton and Kaplan. To start with the application is rather easy to use owing to its intuitive interface. It displays traditional categories like Financial Perspective, Customer perspective,. Learn more in full version of review.
Sector	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Platform	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Part of business system	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Price category	Small Businesses
Pricing model	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Support and update scheme	As the software is available under different user plans, an organization can purchase the appropriate license as per its requirements. Though the ‘updates’ are free for the registered users but ‘upgrades’ are provided free up to one year only. Also registered users are also offered discount on upgrades. The company operates a 24 hrs support centre which offers prompt support over email. In addition a lot of material from user manuals, whitepapers etc are available on the site which user can utilize to resolve their queries. In addition to this, ‘priority service support’ exists for all customers, provided by email for a one year period priced at USD 54
Integration efforts	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

Features

Multi-user access:	This Balanced Scorecard Designer provides single user access.
Integration. Importing data	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Integration. Exporting	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Supported scorecard type	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Scorecard details. Dashboard support.	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Scorecard details. Benchmarks support	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Unique features	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

CONs and PROs

Why use this Balanced Scorecard software:	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.
Who should use this software	The simplicity of usage makes it useful for anybody who is into ‘Performance Measurement and Management’ job. Though it is mostly projected as ‘something that bridges organizational long-term and short-term and aims’ but can also be used for assessing a particular process. Moving on this fact, the tool can be used for evaluation of every procedure, irrespective of how simple or complex it is. For instance, to work for the betterment of a call center, one can utilize indicators like ‘average time taken to answer to query’. This metric if found in considerable variation (high) from the benchmark, steps to lower it down can be taken.
What specific problems does this software solve	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

What kind of business will not be able to use this solution? Why?	The information is not available in trial report. Learn more in full version.

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