There’s a better way to manage business performance.
Your business is complex. Getting to the root of performance shouldn’t be.
Salient helps complex organizations define what drives performance, put ownership closer to where outcomes can be influenced and create the visibility and feedback people need to improve.
We combine four decades of performance and industry expertise with proprietary technology to build solutions around your organization, your data and the way value is created across your business.
There’s a better way to manage business performance.
Your business is complex. Getting to the root of performance shouldn’t be.
Salient helps complex organizations define what drives performance, put ownership closer to where outcomes can be influenced and create the visibility and feedback people need to improve.
We combine four decades of performance and industry expertise with proprietary technology to build solutions around your organization, your data and the way value is created across your business.
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PURPOSE-BUILT STARTS WITH PEOPLE
Performance visibility belongs closer to the people who can change it.
The people closest to the work often understand the context behind performance in a way no centralized report ever could. But experience alone isn’t enough. To improve outcomes, they need clear measures, access to the detail behind the result and feedback that shows whether their decisions are moving performance in the right direction.
Salient combines institutional business knowledge with deep industry expertise, a problem approach to performance and proprietary technology to put that visibility and ownership closer to where outcomes an actually
be influenced.
Leadership gains transparency. Your people gain the context to investigate, act and understand the impact of what happens next.
Your knowledge.
Your performance.
Our expertise.
Our technology.
Built around your business.
EXPERIENCE WHERE IT MATTERS
Performance works differently by industry.
So should the solution.
Salient brings decades of industry experience together with proprietary technology and performance expertise to build solutions around the way value is created, measured and influenced in your business.
That means we can start with the realities of your operating environment, not ask you to translate them into a generic application or predetermined model.
RETAIL, GROCERY, & CONVENIENCE
Your margin story isn’t
contained in one dashboard.
Connect pricing, promotion, category, inventory, supplier and financial performance around the way your organization manages the
business.
WHOLESALE & DSD DISTRIBUTION
Your operation doesn’t run
from a summary.
Understand performance customer by customer, product by product, route by route and delivery by delivery. Connect sales, inventory, service, cost-to-serve and profitability so the people closest to the business can see what’s driving
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BEVERAGE DISTRIBUTION
Every customer, route and
market contributes differently.
Understand those differences without losing sight of the larger business, from pricing and product mix to route efficiency and profitability.
CONSUMER PACKAGED GOODS
See what happens between shipment and shelf.
Connect internal, distributor, retailer and market information to understand how pricing, promotion, execution and product mix shape growth and margin.
HEALTHCARE
Build around the decisions that define healthcare performance.
Bring clinical, operating and financial information together around the measures, responsibilities and priorities that matter to your organization.
DESIGNED TO GO FURTHER
What happened is only
the beginning.
Understand what
drives performance.
Your business doesn’t come pre-summarized. A dashboard, scorecard or initial view can show you where performance changed, but it shouldn’t determine how far you can investigate it.
Traditional analytics and BI environments limit business users to the measures, views and
interactions someone anticipated in advance. Salient’s proprietary technology is designed for what happens after the first answer.
Start with the performance that matters to your role, then move directly through the detail, change perspectives and follow the relationships behind a result ask the question evolves.
1. Start where it matters
Begin with the measures, outcomes and responsibilities relevant to the performance you influence.
2. Follow the question
Move beyond the initial result and drill deeper into the detail behind it. Follow performance across the dimensions and relationships in your business to understand where a change occurred and what deserves a closer look.
3. Understand what’s driving it
Connect detailed activity back to the broader business context to uncover the relationships, patterns and factors contributing to performance.
4. Apply what you know
Bring your own business knowledge and experience to what the data reveals, determine what matters and decide what happens next.
BUILT DIFFERENTLY FOR A REASON
We didn’t build technology to report on performance.
We built it to help improve it.
Salient’s proprietary performance technology grew from decades of work helping complex organizations define value, distribute responsibility and give people the visibility and feedback they need to improve outcomes.
That experience shaped the technology itself, from how data is integrated and structured to how business users investigate performance, apply business rules and understand the impact of what happens next.
Purpose-built starts with a proven foundation.
Integrated performance data
Salient connects, cleans and transforms data from across your organization in to a governed foundation designed to measure performance consistently and in detail.
Business context and rules built into the data
Measures, definitions, hierarchies, relationships and business rules give the data meaning beyond the systems where it originated. Salient also incorporates organization-specific logic, including advanced allocations, so measures such as margin reflect the way value is actually created in your business.
Proprietary technology built for investigation
Business users can move from summarized performance into detailed activity, change perspectives and follow questions without requiring every path to be predefined.
AI built into the performance environment
Integrated AI helps users navigate, analyze, interpret change and identify where to investigate next. Because it works within an environment structured around your measures, relationships and business rules, it has the context to support more relevant analysis.
Expertise that makes the technology specific to you
Salient works with your organization to define measures, structure business logic, build allocation rules and shape the performance environment around the outcomes your aiming to improve.
Technology built for performance. Expertise that makes it yours.
BUILT INTO THE WAY YOU WORK
Performance ownership belongs at every level of the business.
We don’t layer another performance process on top of your organization. We start with the improvements you’re looking to make, the way your business operates and what your people need to understand.
Then we bring the pieces together.
Built to adapt.
Designed to deliver.
BUILT TO CHANGE WITH YOU
Your business will change.
Your performance environment should change with it.
New priorities emerge, markets change, organizations restructure and data sources expand. The measures that matter today may not tell the full story tomorrow.
A Salient solution is designed to evolve with those changes. We continuously improve based on the needs of the organization with the incorporation of new data, refinement of performance measures and business rules, visibility to new areas of the organization and the introduction of new capabilities.
Because Salient combines proprietary technology with ongoing performance and industry expertise, the environment doesn’t have to be rebuilt every time the business moves forward.
The goal isn’t another finished application.
It’s a performance environment that continues to earn its place in your business.
REAL ORGANIZATIONS. THEIR WAY OF THINKING.
Purpose-built performance changes what people can see, understand and act on.
