Recently, I took my daughters (4 and 5 years old) to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. While there I found time to teach them a valuable life lesson. 

 

As we walked around, we came up to one of my favorite paintings, Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Before they saw it, I had them close their eyes, and I brought them over to stand right in front of it.

 

When you look at a small section of some paintings up close, particularly abstract art, you might not think you see anything particularly skillful, nor even artful. I’ve often had the thought when looking at paintings up close, “Well, I could do that.”

 

I asked my daughters to open their eyes and tell me what they saw. “Dots. Different colors.” I asked, “Anything else?” They said “No, just colorful dots.”

 

 

I had them close their eyes again, and I walked them back a couple of feet. Then I told them to open their eyes.

 

 

It wasn’t until they took a couple of steps back from being so close that they saw a beautiful painting.

 

My daughter's facial expressions ranged from shocked to “wow!” to trying to understanding what just happened. These expressions are the same ones you’ll see at multiple levels of an organization when they’re shown the “whole picture” of their business.

 

Many industries today face the issues of not being able to see the whole picture across their enterprise and not being able to make decisions because of sparse data.

 

 

Adding Value, Not Complexity

 

Recognizing the need for a solution that addresses these challenges, AspenTech has launched Aspen Enterprise Insights™ (formerly known as Sabisu). It is a visualization and workflow solution that connects data across the enterprise and provides users with actionable information and insights to drive decision-making and foster collaboration.

 

When you have several siloed applications, your employees will have to spend most of the time acquiring a complete data view from multiple, disjointed sources. Additionally, they will be bogged down with re-entering the information from one system to another, which will take time away from their more important core duties.

 

The key to avoiding manual, duplicative work is to ensure that your core business processes are seamlessly integrated from the front office to the back office.

 

Aspen Enterprise Insights brings structure and control to data aggregation and process management that extends across the enterprise. Automation enables teams to work more effectively, spending more time on the things that matter to their core mission: analysis, decision-making, oversight, compliance and quality.

 

The hybrid cloud-based software integrates teams, data and processes into a highly automated digital flow of work and information. This enables companies to accelerate the delivery of large capital projects and also make a step-change in operational capability and compliance.

 

Aspen Enterprise Insights addresses a number key organization-wide issues, including lack of data control, the inability to influence, inefficient working practices and lack of visibility. These are critical to resolve, as they can result in:

 

• Frequent cost and schedule overruns

• Capital being tied up unnecessarily

• Lack of predictability

• More operational overhead and inefficiencies

You always want to keep the lines of communication and information open. The left hand not knowing what the right is doing isn’t a cliché — it’s one of the most outstanding complaints in business! The inability to communicate, miscommunication and providing incorrect data are the primary reasons organizations become stagnated in the decision process, for fear of making the wrong decision.

 

 

Realizing the Potential Across the Enterprise

 

An efficient organization is one that is saving money and utilizing assets effectively. Its staff and operations/projects are in the best situations to perform in the best manner. Without efficiency, the organization is nowhere near as competitive as it should be to stay in the game, let alone get ahead of it.

 

Aspen Enterprise Insights was developed to drive change, enhance productivity and improve performance with capabilities that enable you to:

 

• Improve enterprise performance management by optimizing efforts and resources to improve operational excellence, project efficiency and asset performance.

• Gain actionable insights by identifying the high-value data needed to make informed strategic decisions for the enterprise.

• Transform work processes and drive greater collaboration through an automated, seamless flow of information to manage workflows and make decisions across business functions.

Importantly, Aspen Enterprise Insights does more than aggregate data, perform analytics, and provide an enterprise-level of visualization; it takes the “next step,” while other companies stop at visualization. Our software recognizes the importance of collaboration and the digital workspace, as well as being able to initiate or trigger a workflow from within the software and handle change management.

 

 

Taking a Step Back

 

By connecting data across the enterprise with a visualization and workflow solution, Aspen Enterprise Insights provides actionable information to drive better collaboration and better results.

 

Just like my daughters at the museum, we need someone or something to help guide us in seeing the larger picture so that we can appreciate it.

 

When you step back and look at your entire enterprise — the “whole picture” —  you see how all the small individual elements of it need to fit together with other pieces to create something masterful.

 

 

To learn more about how Aspen Enterprise Insights can help you unlock new value, please register for our upcoming webinar.

 

_{Images: Georges Seurat's A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, Art Institute of Chicago}