Solutions
Fractal Maps are widely deployed in the financial services industry and beyond. Whatever your industry, whatever your role, if you depend on data to drive your decisions, our deep visualization solutions shows you everything you need to know at a glance.
Find out more below about how our technology applies to you, and how others are profiting from it.
By Industry
Fractal Maps can help almost any type of business improve their performance in a number of ways (see the By Role section below), but some businesses are particularly challenged by the quantities of data they generate or the speed with which they have to respond to change. Some of these industries where ThinkFusion and our partners have deployed Fractal Maps to add value are listed below.
Investment Banking · Fund Management · Retail · Healthcare · Pharmaceuticals · Utilities
Investment Banking
Fully understanding market, position and execution performance and risk in real-time improves returns, but with standard ways of looking at the data this is almost impossible to achieve. Time and time again Fractal Maps have brought previously unidentified patterns and anomalies to users' attention within minutes of being deployed - users who spend their entire time trying to keep track of the data in order to take advantage of opportunities or minimize risk on their own or their clients' behalf.
Related examples:Global Equity Market ActivityEquity Portfolio Monitoring Trade Execution Analysis | Related materials:Optimizing Insight for Capital MarketsPerformance Watch for Financial Services |
Related partners:FusionExperiencePerformance Watch |
Fund Management
Increasing regulation and more testing market conditions make the task of providing benchmark-beating returns ever harder. By enabling asset managers to obtain a more complete picture of the risk and returns within their portfolios and to digest the huge range of information that must be incorporated into a single decision more effectively, Fractal Maps software can help to deliver better performance.
Related examples:Global Equity Market ActivityEquity Portfolio Monitoring Asset Manager Performance Fund Attribution Analysis | Related materials:Optimizing Insight for Investment ManagersPerformance Watch for Financial Services |
Related partners:FusionExperiencePeracton Performance Watch |
Insurance
Reduced underwriting capacity, new channels, market driven technology initiatives and increasing regulation means insurance companies can no longer ignore the pivotal role of data analysis in increasing their competitveness. Fractal Maps improve understanding of the end-to-end business insurance from sales and channel management through to claims and risk management, allowing insurers to optimize their business performance and gaina vital edge.
Related examples:Insurance Margin Analysis |
Related partners:FusionExperienceTotalObjects |
Retail
Retailers commonly capture vast amounts of data relating to stock levels, store sales and customer behaviour, but rarely make the best possible use of this data to drive growth. Fractal Maps can improve understanding of buying patterns and trends, customer profiles and supply chain performance, helping retailers target promotions, improve customer loyalty and streamline inventory management.
Related examples:Retail Sales Analysis |
Related materials:Performance Watch for Retail Consumer |
Related partners:Performance Watch |
Healthcare
Shrinking margins, increased competition for funding and tighter compliance requirements mean that healthcare providers need to keep better track of their patient, service delivery and compliance data. By enabling unified analysis of the information contained in disparate systems, Fractal Maps let healthcare managers gain deeper insight into and optimize the efficiency of their ongoing operations.
Related materials:Performance Watch for Healthcare |
Related partners:Performance Watch |
Pharmaceuticals
With complex sales channels, rigorous product development requirements and generic competition always waiting in the wings, few industries are under more pressure to manage their activities efficiently and effectively than Pharmaceutials and Life Sciences. Fractal Maps can deliver real benefits throughout the product life-cycle from more efficient trial analysis to better sales management allowing companies to maximize their returns from proprietary assets.
Related examples:Pharma Market Share Analysis |
Related partners:Data Intelligence |
Utilities
Utilities companies are under intense pressure to manage costs and improve their quality of service. Fractal Maps can provide a level of visibility, not possible with traditional business intelligence tools, allowing better insight into supply chain availability, cost effectivenes, the impact of outages and maintenance planning, all of which add up to happier customers and a more profitable business.
Related materials:Performance Watch for Power Distribution |
Related partners:Performance Watch |
By Role
Most large businesses face data management, quality and analysis challenges, and to maintain their competitiveness it is becoming ever more important to meet these challenges. Fractal Maps can help executives, managers, analysts and staff improve their performance in a wide range of roles and functions some of which are listed below.
ERP · CRM · Sales and Marketing · Risk Management · Supply Chain Management · Collaboration · Online Analytics
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Finance professionals are under increasing pressure to provide timely and complete overviews of corporate performance. The need to appreciate the big picture while staying on top of the detail is paramount. By providing a complete picture of detail and overview in a single simple picture, Fractal Maps significantly reduce the time taken to understand management accounts and financial statements fully meaning quicker, more effective control of corporate operations.
Related examples:Corporate Performance Management |
Related materials:Performance Watch for Corporate Performance |
Related partners:CoinsPerformance Watch |
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
By implementing a CRM system your organization has taken a big step towards adopting a better sales and marketing process, but CRM systems are notoriously time-consuming to get around and the limited dashboards they provide out-of-the-box can hide as much important information as they reveal. Implementing Fractal Maps on top of your CRM data greatly improves access, improving data quality and pipeline management and making sure your sales and marketing team are properly coordinated.
Related examples:Customer Relationship Management |
Related materials:Optimizing Insight for Salesforce |
Related partners:FusionExperience |
Sales & Marketing Analysis
All companies want to sell more, more efficiently, and managing the customer relationship process is only half the story. In depth analysis of factors such as profitability, market share, feedback and promotions is also required to optimize a company's sales targeting and use of resources. Fractal Maps let management, analysts and planners spot patterns and trends in their sales and marketing performance that would otherwise remain hidden, increasing opportuntity and eliminating wasted effort.
Related examples:Retail Sales AnalysisInsurance Margin Analysis Pharma Market Share Analysis | Related materials:Performance Watch for Retail Consumer |
Related partners:Performance Watch |
Risk Management
Whether you need to understand value at risk across an investment organisation, ensure compliance with your operational risk management processes or, in the wake of Sarbanes-Oxley and Basel II, demonstrate adequate resources and controls to the regulator, implementing systems simply to bring all the data together is not enough. Once the information has been collated, understanding the big picture while maintaining a sufficient level of granularity is essential to proper control. Fractal Maps combine the detail and overview into a unique picture that lets you spot specifc and general risks at a glance and drill immediately into areas of concern.
Related materials:Optimizing Insight for Capital MarketsOptimizing Insight for Investment Managers Performance Watch for Risk Management |
Related partners:FusionExperiencePerformance Watch |
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Streamlining the supply chain has helped a wide range of businesses drive down their capital requirements and offer a service that is more responsive to the needs of their customers. But the probabality and impact of a problem with one link in the chain proliferating are increased, leading to productivity and reputational losses. Fractal Maps reduce these risks by giving controllers better visibility into issues and systemic patterns of failure as they emerge letting them take preemptive action at a tactical or strategic level.
Related examples:Retail Sales Analysis |
Collaboration
Leveraging connectivity to work more efficiently with remote staff, partners and customers is a key facet of the globalization of IT dependent businesses. But the amount of information produced can quickly become overwhelming. Fractal Maps enable more efficient access to and control of this constantly growing environment, helping maintain productivity gains as the system is scaled and reducing the risk of unwanted disclosure.
Related partners:Sosius |
Online Analytics
The growth in online services and social media has given the public a huge range of choice and information about where they should conduct their online business. Companies now need to make sure they are responding to the tides of user behaviour and opinion when it counts, but the shere quantities of data involved are immense. Fractal Maps can help make sense of this data quickly and efficiently from general trends right the way down to the individual, helping businesses ride the wave instead of sink without a trace.
Related examples:Online Analytics |
Related partners:Leiki |
