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How we make it easy and cost effective

Here is a simple way to think about it, courtesy of an Acorn client in Europe. Think of Acorn as an industrial strength, all-in-one washing machine and dryer.
1. You put your laundry “inputs” from all your disparate systems into the Acorn appliance, including your financials, source system data from ERP, core apps, departmental apps, and so forth.
2. Acorn’s appliance works its magic. It performs enterprise-wide performance measurement and creates new insight into your business.
3. Out comes clean, dry, sorted, pressed and folded laundry “output” that helps you make better business decisions. This includes new insight into any dimension of your business such as customers, products, channels and transactions. For each of these dimensions, you can look at revenue, cost, net profit, and resource capacity utilization.

From a conceptual standpoint, it’s that easy! In reality, your environment is complex with many inputs and output requirements. Acorn’s solution was built to handle that complexity with simplicity. Here is a more functionally-accurate depiction.

1. Acorn leverages data from your portfolio of core systems, as consolidated or disparate as they may be, to feed our enterprise performance measurement platform.
2. Acorn’s solution creates new insight into the revenue, cost, net profit and capacity utilization for any dimension of your business in a unified model.
3. Acorn results can be fed back into your data warehouse, leveraged by your BI solutions for feature rich reporting, visualization, and analytics, and can be leveraged by other core applications such as budgeting, planning and forecasting, CRM, SCM, and pricing.