The CATSWeb Measurements feature makes it easy to track performance to goals, monitor trends and automatically send performance-based alerts. Measurements can be added to executive and corporate dashboards to provide important, easy to read, quality metrics information. Not only does this give you feedback about your performance to goal and trends, it also allows you to focus your resources on the areas of the business that need attention. Detailed information can be easily accessed by clicking on the metric of interest. All this is done within CATSWeb without relying on any third party tools or add-ons.

Because most of us don’t have time to look at these dashboards every day, alerts may be configured to automatically send E-mail notifications when the metrics change. Measurements can link to any data source such as internal system data like queries and filters, and with all system reports and graphs in CATSWeb – the source data can even be ‘external’  – such as from ERP and HR systems – or other Oracle and Microsoft databases.

It’s easy to set up a measurement:

1. From the Manage page, click on Measurements and choose “Add” (or copy an existing one)
2. Enter your company goals
3. Then add the measurement to a Dashboard

The CATSWeb Measurements Feature provides an easy way to track progress to goals and alert you when thresholds are crossed. This helps your company to:

• Achieve its corporate goals
• Broaden visibility regarding those goals
• Reduce cycle times
• And ensure that tasks get completed on time

Let us know what corporate goals you are tracking (or would like to track) and how you are using the Measurements Feature in CATSWeb.

When you use AssurX’s CATSWeb Enterprise Quality and Compliance Management system, you enter records and tasks such as:

• Corrective Actions
• Nonconformance Reports
• Defects
• Change Requests
• Audits and Findings
• Complaints
• Training Tasks
• and more

With each of these processes there is usually an associated ‘due date’ or ‘goal date’ and in the system your are automatically notified via email upon assignment and sent reminder emails when these dates are approaching. There is even auto escalation for items that are past due with notifications to management and even auto reassignments for critical items.

All of this functionality is aimed at improving

• responsiveness
• increasing customer satisfaction
• reducing cycle times and
• ensuring the tasks get completed on time — meaning in the end –  costs are reduced

To enhance this BUILT-IN functionality AssurX has added the Calendar Display part. The Calendar Display Part allows you view your quality and compliance records and tasks in a convenient calendar format. Each calendar can be set up to filter data on the fly. For example you can display your personal tasks or your department tasks. It comes with several viewing formats such as multi-month and calendars can be added to a users home page.

Calendars can link to any data source such as internal system data like queries and filters.  And like all system reports and graphs in CATSWeb, the source data can even be external such as from ERP and HR systems or Oracle and Microsoft databases. The Calendar display part also allows you to manage and display the corporate workdays and holidays.

It’s easy to set up a calendar.

1. From the CATSWeb Manager – add the Calendar Display part and fill out the properties
2. Select the data source whether it be from a query or even an external data set
3. Add the Calendar to a user Dashboard – and you’re all set

So in combination with automatic email notifications, reminders and escalation, the Calendar Display Part is an easy way to give employees visibility to important upcoming events and help your company: improve responsiveness, increase customer satisfaction, reduce cycle times and ensuring the tasks get completed on time.