Savings Lifecycle Management
Compare your savings to spend in SPM analytics
You can now compare your savings pipeline and approved savings to spend in analytics. This will enable you to more effectively manage your savings pipeline and review performance across different dimensions when you have spend as a reference point. Please note that this requires that you have Sievo Spend Analytics in use. Contact your Sievo representative for additional information on adding spend data points in your savings analytics.
Combine SPM savings and realized savings in analytics
You can now combine savings from Savings Program Management & Realized Savings modules on the same dashboard. This allows you to verify across different dimensions how approved savings from projects are realizing based on the transaction data. Also, you can now have dashboards combining material price savings that are automatically tracked from spend data, and other savings with SPM projects. Note that this feature requires you have both Savings Program Management and Realized Savings Measurement in use. Please contact your Sievo representative for additional information on configuring combined reporting in your analytics. We’ve updated the Sievo Realized Savings Measurement Playbook to include the new analytics.
User Experience
See how dashboards are being used with user telemetry – coming in October
You will now be able to keep track of how many times each dashboard has been used and for how long. This will help you determine which dashboards are the most popular and which ones might need tweaking or targeted user training. The first user telemetry numbers will be page visits and average time spent on page, but we will keep adding additional data points in the coming months so stay tuned. Please note that user telemetry will only be visible to super users and others with the user telemetry permission.
Harmonised and intuitive admin pages
We have been busy updating all the administrative pages (like user and role management) to follow our sleek, white and blue style. Most of the pages are now updated making it easier for you to find what you are looking for and navigate on the page. There are still a few to go that we will be updating during the fall. Enjoy the beautiful new buttons and styles, we love them.
Analytics
Improvements to Open a graph in self-service from dashboard – coming in October
Last month we introduced a new feature for opening dashboard charts in self-service. In the first release, some of the charts including so-called combo charts opened in a reduced format in self-service e.g. showing only bar chart though the original chart had both bar and line chart combined. This has been updated so that these charts are opened now as table charts to avoid losing measures from the original charts. A notification will be shown whenever the original chart cannot be opened in its original format.
Self-service excel export issues – bug fix
We encountered earlier some formatting issues with measures in certain self-service export excels, e.g. Spend measure with zero decimals appeared with a comma at the end in the excels. The bug was more common with reports using US number formatting. This has now been fixed and the excel exports should not show additional commas anymore.