ActiveStrategy Enterprise (ASE)

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Offered in three modular editions to automate each phase of the strategy execution process. 

1. Creating and reporting an initial corporate scorecard; 
2. Deploying scorecards downward and across business units and functions; 
3. Deliver personalized performance information to specific individuals, while managing key strategy-related activities. 

Enables selection of solution for current needs, with flexibility to upgrade. Scorecard and Dashboard Edition provides core functionality to enable rapid, economical creation and reporting of core scorecards and performance measurement data. Deployment Edition includes above functionality, plus ability to create multiple, aligned, and linked scorecards, objectives, and measures for organisation-wide deployment. Enterprise Edition provides the full functionality set of ActiveStrategy Enterprise, including Personalized User Views for users to see relevant scorecards and performance information; Alert features to ensure prompt system compliance, variance report capture, early warning indications, and workflow management; Initiative Management to drive and focus improvement initiative activities

Product pricing details

License fees range from $20,000 one-time server fee for the Scorecard & Dashboard Edition, up to $1,500/per named user license fee for the Enterprise Edition. Maintenance 18% of software license fees, annually

Cognos® Metrics Manager

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Cognos® Metrics Manager aligns employee actions and performance to strategic goals through centrally defined metrics. These metrics create the one version of the truth that you need for effective, collaborative decision-making. Cognos Metrics Manager lets you actively monitor, analyse, and report your metrics throughout the company. Cognos Metrics Manager helps you take your strategy off the boardroom wall and communicate it as relevant, measurable goals for people across the organization at every level, in every department. It is a key enabler of corporate performance management. The strategic application of business intelligence at the enterprise level to optimise performance.

Comshare MPC™

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Fully integrates modules for planning, financial consolidation, and management reporting and analysis on a single platform, so information is continually cycled throughout the enterprise in a closed-loop process. Proactive, color coded alerts show out-of-range trends and exceptions. Analysis can be performed from any defined business perspective. Supports multiple currency structures (EMU compliant). Supports International Accounting Standards (IAS), US GAAP, Canadian GAAP, UK GAAP, FASB and more. Consolidates data from multiple general ledgers and charts of accounts. Performs asset and salary planning.

Product pricing details

Dependant on number of licenses; generally $75,000 USD and up

Corporater Balanced Scorecard suite

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Powerful way of establishing KPI formulas for non-IT. Form generator for structured manual data collection. Strategy map functionality with active linking and display of achieved results. Integrated survey tool. Integrated report generator tool. Integrated automatic data extraction tool (ETL). Functionality rich authorisation model. Personalised (performance portal). Benchmarking functionality. Supports BSCOL’s sertification standards.

Product pricing details

Price per company depending on size. 20% annual license fee which includes upgrades and support

CorVu5

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

• Strategic Management System: A comprehensive system that manages the key business processes that impact strategy execution, including objective management, initiative management, budgeting & planning, risk management and incentive management.
• Performance Metrics: A robust business intelligence platform for automated data exchange, reporting and analysis.

Crystal Decisions Balanced Scorecard Solution

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Cause and effect diagrams. Multiple-level scorecard support, from the individual to the enterprise. Data and text driven from industry-standard RDBMS. Integration with the data warehouse and many other data sources. Identification of potential problems and opportunities using the Highlighter view. Weighted scores view (high-level performance overview based on achievement). Multi-dimensional access to textual commentary. Powerful Performance Indicator Engine (PI Engine) for practical data-handling issues.

Bizzscore®

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Performance management and Balanced scorecard cockpit and definition tool with: Performance management definition tool assists user in setting up the scorecard lay-out from mission to measure and User friendly performance management cockpit with: Flexible drill down; Reporting and analysis; Business graphics; Connectivity to most standard file types (Excel, XML, HTML, ASCI) and database (MS SQL, Oracle, DB-2, Sybase; Built-in communication system; Plan-do-check-act-cycle; Permissions can fully differentiated per user

Product pricing details

Approx. € 1.000 user. Maintenance ~ 16% of license

Dolphin Navigator System

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Specifies your vision and long term objectives. Identifies key areas or Critical Success Factors (CSFs) through the use of the Process Model, to achieve long-term objectives and established goals. Translates strategy into action. Identifies activities that you have to perform well to maintain your CSFs. Measures whether your chosen line of action will adhere to your objectives. Divides indicators into focuses (the value oriented part of the company) in the navigator, to get a balanced overall view of the company.

InsightVision

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Based on the “Microsoft Balanced Scorecard Framework” (BSCF) and standard Microsoft tools. Includes the Scorecard Builder, ScoreBoard™ and Interactive Strategy Maps, templates and more. Built on Microsoft’s .NET platform. Requires very little end-user training. Can be used as an enterprise-wide scorecard platform for both strategic “balanced scorecards” and other types of scorecards. Personalized “My Measures” and “My Initiatives” allows easy user-defined monitoring of critical information. Supported by a growing world-wide community of Microsoft-certified partners as well as management consulting firms. Built-in multi-dimensional analysis (where appropriate). Optionally integrates with SharePoint Portal Server (or other portals), and leverages an organization’s existing software tools. The InsightVision sofware (previously BSCF Toolkit) has won 2 grand prize awards form Microsoft and was rated the #1 value in an independent review of over 65 performance management and scorecard software solutions.

Nexance Performance Management

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Custom build your strategy roadmap: cluster your objectives through strategic theme or view them through the Balanced Scorecard perspectives; ability to rename or add new perspectives according to your needs; set and amend on a “as needed basis” the cause and effect strategic diagram. Communicate: accessing & sharing information: fully web-enabled from our Internet portal or through your Company Intranet; intuitive navigation from the cause and effects linkages diagram; communication around strategic issues using the messenger built-in interface with the possibility to sent through your regular E-mail systems; access to a report generator module including a predefined set of reports. Measure, monitor and analyse: personalized user “all in one” online dashboard; set your own traffic lights system to best suit the way you want to visualise performance; select through the chart generator the way you want to display your indicator data graphically; powerful graphical alerting tools and reminder functions to inform users that data updates are expected; Project Portfolio management; set and manage your own personal objectives.

Product pricing details

£15-50K

Pilot’s Performance Management Solution

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Pilot’s performance management solution offers the essential technologies, services and expertise to rapidly deploy a custom performance management initiative that aligns execution across the organization with strategy. A complete solution, Pilot’s performance management solution includes domain expertise and services; and scorecard; dashboard; analysis & reporting; and modeling & integration capabilities. With its flexible, modular, open approach, Pilot Software provides organizations with the necessary ingredients to incrementally build a performance management initiative — without worrying about future scalability issues.

Prodacapo Balanced Scorecard

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Certified by Balanced Scorecard Collaborative. Supports also performance management frameworks similar to Balanced Scorecard. Fast and flexible implementation. Very intuitive and easy-to-use. Web-enabled. Extensive and easy-to-use reporting and analysis. Not only a measurement system – it’s also a management system providing full functionality to manage and follow up on initiatives and actions to ensure that the strategic objectives are attained. Easy to integrate with existing systems to automatically update measures in the scorecard. Easy to integrate into intranets or portals. Scalable – can be implemented as a pilot and then gradually be expanded into a global roll-out. OLAP –functionality offered as optional add-in component. Part of the Prodacapo world-class suite of software solutions for Enterprise Performance Management, also including solutions for Process Management, Activity- Based Costing/ Management and Interactive Business Planning.

QPR ScoreCard

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

QPR ScoreCard is a Balanced Scorecard package which emphasises its ability to link to other strategic performance management frameworks. QPR ScoreCard helps organisations to plan, implement, communicate and commit people to organisational strategies and objectives.

Strategy2Act

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

Strategy2Act is a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) support software. It is designed to help build a Balanced Scorecard. The new version 1.3 includes new metrics necessary to measure and control IT Security. New groups are “Risk Management”, “Contingency Planning”, “System Life Cycle”, “Personnel Security”, “Data Integrity”. The new scorecard allows to learn strong and weak points of organization IT security and suggest possible ways to solve security problems.

Balanced Scorecard is a conception that transforms strategy to action. Balanced Scorecard is a set of principles that facilitate the understanding of business strategy and goals. Balanced Scorecard is a methodology that converts strategy into real action.

Strategy2Act software is a tool that supports building a Balanced Scorecard system for a company, department or an individual. This program helps to build a system that will make it easy to go from strategy to action.  

Potential users

• Small companies. Strategy2Act is priced well, any company can afford it.

• Top-managers of big companies. To get an understanding of how can Balanced Scorecard work for this business.  

Product pricing details

Start with 120 US$ per license, discounted as the number of licenses increases. Evaluation version available here. Purchase a single user copy for 120 US$.

Executive Dashboard

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

• Web Based Application
• Easy to learn and use – training only takes 3 hours
• Menu driven application
• Full security module protects data
• Proven 8 year deployment history
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• User defined dashboards and drill downs

Product pricing details

ASP Model $500 to $3,200 USD per month plus one time enrolment fee of $1,200 USD. Self Host Model $12,000 to $73,000 USD plus 20% annual support and update fee.

Scoreboard

Key Balanced Scorecard related features

The software is installed at 17 facilities, with over 800 licensed users. The US Army SRS Scorecard users Spider’s Replication software for merging their unclassified Scorecard with their classified scorecard. 

• 100% J2EE Web Application. 
• Combines Balanced Scorecard and Digital Dashboard approach to corporate performance management.
• No Cost For View Only Users.
• No applet required for Viewing.
• Uses Oracle, SQL Server or MS Access for data repository.
• Platform independent--works with any web browser.
• Unlimited nested organization depth and highly flexible scorecard structure. 

Product pricing details

$850.00 - which includes 1 Administrator and an unlimited number of View-Only user accounts. Additional Users: Administrators $850.00 per user, User Account Managers $425.00 per user, Data Entry Operators $125.00 per user, View Only User FREE Unlimited Users.