Microsoft Accounting Software | Value Proposition Analysis
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This presentation describes various features of Microsoft's Accounting software for SME & MSMEs in India. It also includes balanced score card and competitive analysis based on the value offerings by Microsoft.
Microsoft Accounting Software | Value Proposition Analysis
1. Microsoft’s Accounting Software Package for SME/MSME
They analysed strengths & weaknesses of industry leader Intuit, Inc.
Based on that Microsoft added/modified features to its software
package.
They released it with Private & Public Beta testing (To encourage real
world potential customers to use the program, find bugs, and provide
feedback).
Its seamless integration with MS Office applications like Excel, Word &
Outlook contacts proved to be a differentiating factor as compared to
similar existing software in industry.
What could’ve been done better ?
Direct electronic integration with Banks
Dependence on prior knowledge of Accounting practices for using Payroll
system
Prediction of seasonal sales & cash flows
2. Differentiating Value Proposition for Microsoft
Payroll processing
Stock tracking ,Sales Audit
Administration Reporting
Procurement & Purchase
Inventory Management
Handling multiple bank transactions
Handling Foreign currency
Financial records for SBU
Customer details & purchase
history(CRM)
Third party online gateways/payment
interface
Support for accelerated growth to
increase business revenue & profit
margins
Assigning right task to right employees
Ease of use | Multiple OS Support
Data integration & Analysis
Technology adaption with respect to
change in future trends & Global
presence
Automate end-to-end business
processes
Cost optimization & Returns
maximization
Account access, authorization & data
security
Switching costs of vendor services
Scale-up costs with Organization growth
Maintenance costs
Sunk & Opportunity costs
Adaptability of staff to use the software
platform
Technological dependence
3. Differentiating Value Proposition for Microsoft
Realize the Bottom-line benefits
Proactively growing your business
Quick response to customer needs
Low technology cost & speed time to
value
Building & maintaining better customer
relationships
Accessing right information to make
smart, quick business decisions
Accounting and Financial assessment
Sales and Customer management
Purchasing & Operations management
Inventory management & Distribution
channel selections
Administrative reporting formats as per
organization work culture
Faster data enablement & information
access
Scheduling & work-flow event alerts
Mobile platforms for business
expansion
Capturing all business related
information in a single, scalable system
Answering most pressing questions with
integrated business intelligence
Give employees on-the-go access to the
software via an intuitive mobile app
Deploy on premise or in the cloud
Easy integration of subsidiaries
Providing standard industry services to
SME & MSME
The ‘Dashboard’ Experience
4. Balanced Scorecard for Re-alignment of Business Processes
Balanced Score
Card
Strategic
Priorities
Objectives Measures Targets Initiatives
Product Leadership &
Operational Excellance
Strategy
• Introduce new features for
dynamic business scenarios
• Reduce product performance
failure
• Keep product low cost
• Allow flexibility to fit
customers need and
requirement
•Product Adoption
•Time to Product Launch
•Action Completion Rate & Difference b/w
category users
• Product/ Feature velocity
• Complexity Factor
• Failure Count
•Increase Product adoption rate
•Decrease time to launch and time
to market
Eenhance NPS
• Diminish the delta between
category users
• Increase product velocity
• Decrease complexity factor
• Decrease failure counts by
reducing bugs
• Market Sensing cross functional
team
• Performing Feature
Audits/comparision
• Create a battle cart through
competitive analysis
• Organized R&D with focus on
disruptive technology
Customer Relationship
Strategy
• Enhance relationships with
existing customers
• Create an approachable
environment for customer
queries
• Support creation of referral
pipeline through a great
customer relationship
experience
• Customer/Lead Conversion Rate
• Customer Satisfaction
• Average revenue per user (ARPU)
• User/customer acquisition cost (UAC/CAC)
• User/customer lifetime value (ULV/CLV)
•Net Promoter Scose/ User Sentiment
• Number of campaigns
• Number of campaign responses
• Number of campaign purchases
• Revenue generated by campaign
• Number of new customers acquired by
campaign
• Cross-sell Ratio
• Up-sell ratio
• Number of cases handled
• Number of cases closed the same day
• Complaint time to resolution
• Increase Conversion , Staisfaction ,
ARPU & LTV
• Decrease CAC
• Optimize number of parallel
campaigns and channels used to
deliver the campaigns
• Focus on increasing campaign
respones , purchases and revenue.
• Increase cross sell and up sell
ratio
• Identify campiagns that give
maximum reach
• Develop content publishng
platforms to keep potential clients
engaged
• Design Lead Nurturing Campaigns
& quality content to engage
cutomers
• Design a training program to
facilitate the client's team in quick
adoption of the product
• create an efficient servive team
that solves any issue in minimum
time
• Provide 24 x 7 service support
Internal
Processes
Perspective