The Irus Group has designed and implemented corporate performance management (CPM) and business intelligence (BI) solutions for all segments of government, including Federal, State and Local, and educational institutions. This also includes implementing budgeting and planning processes and subsequently building financial systems throughout the Department of Defense, the Navy, Air Force, and Peace Corps. For example, in order to implement business intelligence systems at the Air Force, Irus Group built data warehouses to get logistical and financial data input from multiple sources into a single repository in order to easily access the data and begin analyzing it. Irus Group designed the process, implemented it, and moved the system into production. Irus Group was able to ask the right questions of this highly visible government client because we understand how the Federal customer operates and what’s unique about their requirements.

Irus helps our Federal Government clients answer questions such as:

• Am I operating within my budget?
• How much is left in this year’s budget?
• What do we need to do today to achieve the agency’s strategic vision of the future?
• Am I fulfilling the mission assigned to me?
• Is my department operating to plan?

One of the challenges Federal agencies face is that there is huge amounts of data in the many legacy systems in place that need to be integrated and presented in a more unified manner. The development of the Irus Methodology was critical to ensure that we could get data in one place and have it presented to the key users. Federal agencies rely on the Irus Group to help take their data and turn it into information that can be processed as knowledge. With that knowledge, we implement the right business intelligence technology to help them make better business decisions about their budgets and planned expenditures.

Help Tie Strategic Vision to Actual Operations

Irus Group helps its Federal customers determine what would constitute acceptable levels of performance. We have the ability to help an agency define the metrics from an executive level down to a unit level and tie it all together. Bridging organizational challenges together, even with BI systems is a big issue. We have expertise in putting checks and balances in place once issues arise. For example, we use balanced scorecards to tie strategic vision to actual operations.

For example, if the agency needs to have a certain number of captains in 2015, we may help them determine that they need to start recruiting today. We then help implement the metrics that tie operations to strategic objectives. It’s a combination of functional and domain knowledge. We know the right questions to ask, and have the subject matter expertise (SME) and functional knowledge, which are all brought together by the Irus Methodology.

We understand not just the data structure, but the business process around it. With at the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, a division that tracks $7B a year, we designed and implemented a budgeting and planning system that helped them balance the budget to the penny every day and for every transaction.

Irus DoD Budgeting Solution

The Irus Group DoD Budgeting Solution handles budget and forecast creation, review, modification, and communication within the same system. It streamlines the budgeting process, whether organizations use top-down, bottom-up, or mixed budgeting methodologies, and can allocate budget objectives from high levels—such as quarter and division—to low levels—such as month and department. Users can copy last year’s actuals into the current year’s budget and increase certain balances by specified percentages or amounts. Web-based data collection tools enable controlled acquisition of budget data. At the close of the budget cycle, the finalized budget is consolidated to provide enterprise access, and then locked to prohibit additional modification.

Benefits include:

• Flexible Data Loading: Easily accepts and validates data from multiple legacy applications, general ledgers, spreadsheets, and relational databases.
• Extensive Financial Modeling: A wide variety of financial management tasks are supported with sophisticated modeling capability.
• Controlled Data Access: Data is maintained in a central source, ensuring that users are able to access the data they need, both locally and at remote sites.
• Comprehensive Reporting and Analysis: Key information can be viewed across any combination of dimensions -- line items, time periods, products, geographical regions, and cost centers.
• Web-Based Budgeting: Allows data to be displayed, accessed and sent over the world-wide-web.