Performance benchmarks are widely used to assess sector conditions. The problem is that they are based on corporate reports that are: - Too infrequent to detect sudden changes in the market environment. - Delayed which affects reaction time to such changes. - Limited to corporations which reflect 1% of businesses and are thereby inaccurate. In order to overcome these shortcomings, Gage-Cannon in partnership with FACT and BVD has developed a solution specifically intended to provide high-frequency performance tracking and benchmarking that can be applied to all businesses.

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2. BENCHMARKING CHALLENGES
Performance benchmarks are widely used to assess sector conditions. The problem is that they
are based on corporate reports that are:
• Too infrequent to detect sudden changes in the market environment.
• Delayed which affects reaction time to such changes.
• Limited to corporations which reflect 1% of businesses and are thereby inaccurate.
In order to overcome these shortcomings, GCVC in partnership with FACT and BVD has
developed a solution specifically intended to provide high-frequency performance tracking and
benchmarking that can be applied to all businesses.
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3. SHOPPING MALLS
Mall revenue is based on the performance of the stores that rent spaces within them. Being able
to track store performance is therefore critical in order for the mall to know when to engage in
marketing campaigns and to accurately determine the effectiveness of such campaigns.
The platform provided by FACT enables malls to monitor stores on a daily basis and extract
information about overall store performance against each individual store. It can even isolate
stores based on type, where clothing stores are compared to the clothing store benchmark.
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4. SPORTING ASSOCIATIONS
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Sporting associations are there to support clubs of
all sizes. FACT makes it possible for these
associations to help smaller clubs grow as the
platform is armed with help directories that
educate managers in how to run their clubs more
efficiently. The ability to extract benchmarks
based on club size and geographic location
provides high granularity insights into how the
sport is developing across regions. The data can
be shared with sporting brands and research
agencies at association or club level on a
subscription basis.

5. REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATIONS
Real estate is what backs the financial system. Tracking it at high frequency and high granularity
is essential to detect sudden shifts in buyer behavior. FACT enables real estate associations to
provide vital metrics to their members that helps them predict market movement and determine
what actions need to be taken in order to defend against sudden market downturns.
FACT is first and foremost an effective credit risk management solution, so the gain for real
estate associations is doubled. Not only can members track own performance against the
association benchmark; they can evaluate potential buyers using the same platform. The
reasons to adopt FACT as a centralized monitoring system are therefore considerable, both at
the association side and for each individual member.
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6. • A web based framework
that brings customer data
together with quantitative
models, personalized
workflow, process, portfolio
analyses and stress testing
on the same platform.
• Designed to streamline
your data analyses
processes, it can be totally
configured to your needs
independently from BvD.
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WHAT IS FACT?

7. SPREADING AND PEER ANALYSIS
• Own financial templates
• Integration with ORBIS and third party data sources
• User defined items and own ratios
• Custom layout, graphical outputs and on line help for model
support
• Off-line work with Excel import/export
• Peer group comparisons
• Financial projections and ‘what if’ scenarios
• Archival of financial and workflow approval
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8. INPUTTING FINANCIAL DATA
• Users can input financial
with simple calculations
in the data fields (+, - ,
/...)
• Formulas can be
displayed in tooltips or a
separate column
• User comments
• Pre-defined layout
columns display figures,
formulas, comments side
by side
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9. PEER GROUP ANALYSIS AVAILABLE
• One company compared to
one or several companies.
• One company compared to a
group of companies.
• Statistics available as
average, median, deciles,
standard deviation.
• Graphical illustrations.
• Custom analysis.
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10. FINANCIAL TEMPLATE CONFIGURATION
• Items can be dragged
into sections
• Data items, charts,
tabular items or
graphical scales can
be easily dragged
into a template
• Create financial
reports by
assembling multiple
sections
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11. APPROVAL OF FINANCIAL ENTRIES AND ARCHIVING
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Users can view and retrieve
previously saved data sets
for audit purpose or reload
data into the spreading
template
All information stored in
the data set can be
viewed (but not
modified)
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12. CONFIGURABLE WORKFLOW STEPS WITH STATISTICS
• Workflow state
model is
configurable
• Workflow
assignation to a
group users or
individuals
• Linked to archived
documents
• E-Mail notification
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13. OVERVIEW OF THE FACT LAYERS
The FACT framework is made up of layers
each with their own modular components:
- The user interface layers present information to
the end-user via Internet Explorer ensuring that
privileged content and functionality is only available
to authenticated users with granted access.
- The framework modules support the business
processes, application administration and system
information.
- The data structures enclose the business objects
used to pass information between modules.
- The data storage layers contain sets of media,
applications, back-end systems or databases in
which data is written, read or sent.
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