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The Acorn Enterprise Performance Suite (EPS) provides the 360-degree view needed to improve business performance. Only Acorn Systems can provide the level of accuracy, scalability, and flexibility that companies need to reflect the complexity of their businesses. Built to fully leverage the capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server, Acorn EPS allows companies to dynamically model their changing business processes and to collect and analyze accurate data on whatever measurements their performance goals dictate. EPS gives business leaders the level of detail they need—holistic high-level views or transaction-level detail—to make accurate and actionable decisions.
In the past, businesses were forced to make trade-offs due to legacy systems' inability to scale and handle complexity. Too much detail led to models that were unsustainable and extremely expensive to maintain. The inability to handle complexity led to inaccurate models reflecting averages or activity explosions that became extremely difficult to maintain. Timely reporting was difficult because it was too painful or impossible to run reports.
Attempting accuracy meant a huge investment in resources—people and time—to gather data through extensive surveys, transaction analysis, etc., with accuracy still an issue. To scale, businesses had to disaggregate models and bring them back together, which meant that the context of the analysis of course was lost, and the numbers without context are just more numbers.
The Acorn Enterprise Performance Suite is unmatched in scalability, and its customers run single models with thousands of locations, millions of customers, and hundreds of thousands of products with excellent performance. Acorn EPS allows customers to analyze anything they want, any way they want, as often as they want. Every one of Acorn's F-1000 customers who have implemented this leading-edge technology in the last four years is still using the software and running reports monthly.
Together, Acorn Systems and Microsoft SQL Server provide the agility needed in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing business environment. Acorn's clients include many companies in the Fortune 500 and come from numerous industries, including financial services, retail, manufacturing, and distribution in the metals, foods, electronics, paper, health care, and chemicals industries.
For more information, visit www.acornsys.com or call 1-800-98ACORN.
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CUSTOMERS
"Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer™ proved itself to have the most advanced costing- and profitability–analysis feature set of all the solutions we evaluated. Only Acorn Systems delivers true costing information on each line item of a transaction. This capability will enable Schwab to identify inefficiencies and to operate more cost effectively. It will also help us to better understand the revenue and expense dynamics of our clients and product offerings. Acorn's solution is more advanced, powerful, and cost effective than our existing solutions or any of the other offerings we examined in our exhaustive selection process. Acorn Systems will enable us to be even better at combining people and technology to keep costs low and the level of service high."
Dave Martin SVP, Finance Charles Schwab 
"Through our Activity-Based Costing initiative with Acorn Systems, we were able to identify several different actions we could take and policies we could set that would increase our profitability and more fairly distribute our cost of doing business with customers based upon our cost to serve them. Rather than penalizing our customers who are the most costly to do business with, or "firing" them, which would decrease our revenues, we encourage our customers to work with us in the most profitable manner. We reward our most profitable customers with incentives that are available to any customer who does business with us in a manner that is more profitable for both of us."
Kurt Anderson VP, IT J&B Wholesale 
"SUPERVALU conducted a highly comprehensive and competitive review of this critical business need and found that Acorn Systems beat all the other well recognized players in the industry. Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer software went through a rigorous Proof of Concept in which it was required to accurately duplicate a collection of results from SUPERVALU's existing system. Acorn Systems was the only provider that successfully got them all right. Acorn Systems was the only vendor to satisfy all the business requirements."
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ACORN SYSTEMS-MICROSOFT ALLIANCE
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Microsoft Corporation is a strategic Acorn partner and exclusive provider of technology for our business solutions. Acorn Systems is a proud Microsoft Gold Certified ISV that is able to deploy lowest cost, highest capability solutions across the enterprise. We bring the best of all worlds—Acorn for unparalleled performance measurement, Microsoft for world-class business intelligence, and our extended partner community for industry and integrated solution expertise. We are collectively committed to the highest-quality, performance-based solutions that drive tremendous bottom-line results. Ultimately, we assist businesses to make better decisions, increase efficiency, identify opportunities, and be more profitable. Acorn Systems:
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Acorn Systems is pleased to announce the availability of its best-in-class Enterprise Performance Suite 3.0 solely and exclusively based on SQL Server 2005. Leveraging key capabilities of the new core database and related business intelligence (BI) technologies, we continue our commitment to deploying Microsoft-based performance measurement solutions for new and existing clients. Specific components include the following:
JOINT VALUE PROPOSITION
Better insight into business decisions begins with better management, including:
Measurement without compromise! Microsoft and Acorn Systems deliver better decision making through actionable information.
Find out more about Acorn Systems.
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