Understand.Com Selects OnDemandIQ Hosted Business Intelligence to Improve Visibility on Sales Performance

OnDemandIQ, a leading provider of On Demand dashboard and reporting solutions, today announced that Understand.com, a global provider of educational services, has adopted the OnDemandIQ Insights™ hosted business intelligence application to provide senior management with improved visibility on sales transactions, communicate with outside stakeholders, and improve decision making.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 16, 2007 -- OnDemandIQ (http://www.ondemandiq.com), a leading provider of On Demand dashboard and reporting solutions, today announced that Understand.com, a global provider of educational services, has adopted the OnDemandIQ Insights™ hosted business intelligence (http://www.ondemandiq.com/overview.htm) dashboard and reporting application to provide senior management with improved visibility on sales transactions, communicate with outside stakeholders, and improve decision making.

"We selected OnDemandIQ Insights™ because it was an easy-to-use solution which allowed us to share key business metrics with our Executive management team," explained Darik Volpa, CEO of Understand.com. "When we realized that there was no hardware or IT staff requirements, the solution made even more sense for us."

Understand.com needed a simple solution that would allow them to communicate sales performance throughout their organization and to outside stakeholders. Serving the needs of a broad base of clients ranging from large pharmaceutical clients to individual doctors' offices, Understand.com generates a high volume of transactions over various time periods. Being able to communicate sales trends and performance relative to forecasts is an important objective to manage the business more effectively. With a distributed management team, it was also necessary to have a solution which allowed everyone to see the same sales information, as it occurred, in a simple and easy-to-understand executive dashboard.

In addition to using the Dashboard as a quick and easy way to communicate sales performance, Understand.com has also deployed several reports that provide a greater level of detail into sales now and in the past. Account and segment level performance can now be easily obtained by stakeholders without the need for custom analyses.

"We are now able to meet the needs of our various stakeholders and provide them with the visibility on sales performance that they require. We initially struggled to find a solution that did not cost thousands of dollars and require IT involvement. OnDemandIQ's solution met these requirements and we were live within a few weeks at a fraction of the cost of alternatives," said Mr. Volpa.

About Understand.com

Understand.com provides educational services that enable medical professionals and corporations to communicate more effectively with patients. Understand.com uses an engaging multimedia approach to present hundreds of complex conditions, diseases and procedures in an easy-to-understand format that patients may conveniently access online.

About OnDemandIQ

OnDemandIQ Inc. is a Los Angeles-based company that gives organizations the data analysis and reporting functionality they need to make mission critical decisions, establish priorities and maximize growth. Its web-hosted solution, OnDemandIQ Insights™, provides access to relevant real-time data through web-based dashboards and reports, empowering all members of the organization to make quicker, more-informed decisions. For additional information, visit OnDemandIQ at http://www.ondemandiq.com/.

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