Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

The first thing to note is that Portus has immediate time to value. You do not wait for your analytics to improve after some amount of time and investment. You get hundreds of interactive, drill down reports providing you real time insights into your business immediately after installation.
We also have many happy customers that will tell you that Portus pays for itself immediately by providing the following key benefits:

• Productivity –Portus provides immediate and dramatic productivity improvements in two distinct areas.
  1. First, it makes all of your users that routinely have to query your business systems for information much more efficient. We have done time and motion studies that show that using Portus is between 20x and 100x faster than using standard ERP functionality to accomplish everyday query and reporting tasks that may be conducted hundreds or thousands of times a day in your business. When employees get to the information that they need faster and are able to drill down into more details as necessary they are much more efficient. You will see dramatic productivity improvements in analytically intensive job functions such as purchasing, planning, operational analysis, supply chain analysis, financial analysis and executive management.
  2. Second, Portus eliminates or greatly reduces the need/reliance on report writing resources. In many cases, the ad hoc reports have to be run manually and maintained regularly, all of which when combined with the effort to design and create them, is a productivity drain on the organization.
• Scalability – the efficiencies derived from using Portus will allow your entire organization to focus on the job at hand rather than chasing reports and information. Ultimately this will allow you to get more done with the same resources and put your company in a better position to manage growth spurts. More importantly, we have seen with existing customers that using an advanced analytics system like Portus (especially with the optional Customer Portal module) gives your organization a reputation of being leading-edge and ultra-efficient thereby making your customers more comfortable with your ability to meet their growing needs.
• Competitive Advantage – The improved productivity and scalability ultimately gives you tangible operational advantages over the competition and allows your organization to differentiate itself as a leading-edge company best suited to manage market requirements.
• Improved Internal Processes – Portus provides organized work flows with continuous drill downs to turbo charge key review and control processes inside your organization. Some examples include:
  1. Bookings/Billings/Backlog Review
  2. Accounts Receivable Review
  3. Inventory Review
  4. Accounts Payable Review
  5. Job Shortage Review
  6. WIP Status Review
  7. On Time Delivery Review
  8. Supplier Performance Review

With Portus all of the information necessary to conduct these reviews is immediately available, consistently organized and presented on a real time basis. There is no preparation time needed to put Excel or PowerPoint analysis together. The entire review can be conducted using elegantly designed web pages with the ability to drill into any dynamic of interest as needed.
We have found that with Portus organizations can be much more consistent in terms of conducting key business reviews because they do not have to spend time preparing for the meetings and can focus strictly on what the analysis says and what needs to be done. Ultimately, improved internal processes will make your organization much stronger and more capable of meeting the challenges of the market.

When you put all of these factors together with the immediate time to value, the resulting ROI is “through the roof”. In short, Portus more than pays for itself immediately.