Qpredict Version 3

Version 3 of Qpredict provides significant new functionality as follows:

1. Cost modelling - allows you to record and model variable and fixed non-staff costs to give a complete view of all costs of your organisation down to a specific operational unit, examples of use include:
   
   • quickly determining the impact of price rises on variable costs such as utilities
   • understanding the impact on recharge costs, of adding resources, such as PC's,
   • allowing 'what if' analysis on non-staff variable costs when looking at things such as opening hours (e.g. what are the likely reduction in electricity costs).
   • modelling the cost implications of changes to physical infrastructure (e.g. reduction of square footage on lease costs)
   • measure costs linked to specific tasks (e.g. postage costs for sending letters)
2. Resource profiling - staff resources are not always required on a equal basis throughout the year, so this functionality allows you to profile a task (down to operational unit level if required) over various time periods from specific months, down to hourly slots; examples of use include:
   
   • quick profile generation as the system assumes an even spread of work unless specified otherwise (e.g. if you specify that 80% of a task is carried out in March the system assumes that the remaining 20% is spread equally across the remaining 11 months.
   • allows monthly, weekly, daily and hourly profiling using a simple user interface to reduce input time
   • reports show FTE's required for a specific time period by task and role for each operational unit (e.g. you need 2.5 Assistant Librarians between 1pm and 4pm every Friday during the summer months).
3. Benchmarking - functionality allows cost effective benchmarking of selected tasks etc to take place across different organisations; functionality includes
   
   • secure centrally accessible data eliminating the need to email spreadsheets and other data to the relevant benchmarking group
   • easy to set up for existing benchmarking groups or create your own small or large group
   • system reports on chosen tasks to be benchmarked (so everyone uses the same definition of the tasks being monitored)
   • reports can be customised for your particular benchmarking group