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Features in Treasury Dashboards
for Treasury Technology
Visual analytics tools that present key treasury metrics and indicators in real-time, supporting proactive decision-making by treasury executives.
We ask vendors to mark their product against our feature list. It is not available for all products and in some cases we have derived data from publicly available sources. The list of features follows. Vendors can add a further 10 key features of their own.
Analytics and Reporting
Features related to data analysis, business intelligence, and report generation
- AI-powered insights
- Machine learning capabilities that suggest actionable insights from data
- Ad-hoc report builder
- Tools allowing users to create custom reports without technical assistance
- Anomaly detection
- Automated identification of unusual patterns or outliers in financial data
- Custom KPI creation
- Tools for defining and tracking personalized performance metrics
- Data blending capabilities
- Ability to combine multiple data sources for comprehensive analysis
- Data visualization library
- Number of different chart types and visualization formats available
- Export format options
- Number of supported formats for exporting reports and data
- Natural language processing
- Ability to query data using conversational language
- Predictive analytics
- Advanced algorithms to forecast financial metrics based on historical data
- Regression analysis tools
- Statistical modeling capabilities for identifying relationships between variables
- Regulatory report templates
- Pre-configured reports meeting specific compliance requirements
- Scheduled reporting
- Automated generation and distribution of reports on fixed schedules
Cash Management
Features focused on monitoring, forecasting, and managing corporate cash positions
- Bank fee analysis
- Visualization of bank charges across accounts and services
- Bank relationship scorecards
- Visual assessment of banking relationships against KPIs
- Cash flow drill-down
- Ability to navigate from summary cash positions to detailed transaction-level information
- Cash forecasting
- Predictive displays of future cash positions based on historical patterns and known transactions
- Forecast accuracy tracking
- Measurement of variance between forecasted and actual cash positions
- Global cash position
- Consolidated view of cash balances across all bank accounts and entities
- Idle cash highlighting
- Identification of accounts with excess liquidity that could be better deployed
- Intercompany loan tracking
- Visual management of internal funding positions between corporate entities
- Intraday position tracking
- Real-time monitoring of cash movements throughout the business day
- Liquidity planning tools
- Visual aids for optimizing cash deployment and investment strategies
- Notional pooling visualization
- Graphical representation of pooling structures and resulting interest benefits
- Working capital metrics
- Visual representation of DSO, DPO, DIO and cash conversion cycle metrics
Data Visualization
Features related to how financial data is presented visually for analysis and decision-making
- Alert indicators
- Visual cues highlighting exceptions, thresholds breaches, or items requiring attention
- Benchmarking displays
- Visual comparison of performance against industry benchmarks or internal targets
- Customizable dashboards
- Ability for users to create and modify personalized dashboard views with selected KPIs and reports
- Export capabilities
- Ability to export visualizations in various formats (PDF, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Geospatial mapping
- Visualization of treasury data across geographic locations, useful for multinational corporations
- Heat maps
- Visual representation using color-coding to highlight risk areas, exposures, or performance metrics
- Historical trend analysis
- Visualization of data changes over time periods to identify patterns and trends
- Interactive charts
- Clickable, dynamic charts that allow users to drill down into underlying data points
- Mobile optimization
- Dashboard views adapted for smartphone and tablet devices
- Multi-currency display
- Ability to view data in different currencies with automatic conversion
- Real-time data refresh rate
- How frequently dashboard data is updated from source systems
- What-if scenario visualization
- Interactive modeling of different financial scenarios with visual outputs
Payments and Banking
Features related to payment workflows, bank connectivity, and transaction management
- Bank account management
- Consolidated view of all bank accounts, signatories, and account structures
- Bank connectivity status
- Dashboard showing real-time status of connections to banking systems
- Bank statement reconciliation tracking
- Visual representation of reconciliation status across accounts
- Failed payment monitoring
- Visual alerts and tracking for unsuccessful payment transactions
- Multi-bank portal integration
- Number of direct bank connections supported by the dashboard
- Payment approval workflows
- Visual representation of payment authorization processes and current status
- Payment costs analysis
- Visualization of transaction costs across payment methods and banks
- Payment fraud monitoring
- Visual indicators of potential fraudulent payment activities
- Payment method optimization
- Visual guidance for selecting the most efficient payment rails for transactions
- Payment status tracking
- Visual monitoring of payment processing stages from initiation to completion
- SWIFT/payment network status
- Real-time tracking of messaging network availability and performance
- Sanction screening visualization
- Visual tracking of payment compliance checks against sanction lists
Risk Management
Features for identifying, measuring, and monitoring various financial risks
- Commodity price risk tracking
- Visualization of exposure to raw material and commodity price movements
- Compliance status indicators
- Visual tracking of adherence to treasury policies and regulatory requirements
- Counterparty risk heatmaps
- Color-coded visualization of exposure to financial counterparties
- Credit limit utilization
- Visual representation of credit facility usage against established limits
- Derivatives valuation
- Visual tracking of mark-to-market values for derivative instruments
- FX exposure dashboard
- Visual representation of currency exposures across the organization
- Hedge effectiveness monitoring
- Visual tracking of how well hedging strategies are performing against objectives
- Interest rate risk visualization
- Graphical display of interest rate exposures and sensitivities
- Monte Carlo simulation capabilities
- Number of simulations the system can process for risk modeling
- Portfolio stress testing
- Visual representation of how financial portfolios perform under extreme conditions
- Scenario analysis tools
- Visualization of risk metrics under different market scenarios
- Value-at-Risk (VaR) displays
- Visualization of potential financial losses due to market movements
Security and Compliance
Features related to data security, access controls, and regulatory compliance
- Audit logging
- Comprehensive tracking of user actions and system changes
- Compliance certifications
- Number of recognized security and compliance certifications held
- Data encryption
- Protection of sensitive financial data using encryption standards
- Data residency options
- Control over geographic location of stored financial data
- IP restrictions
- Ability to limit system access to specific network locations
- Multi-factor authentication
- Enhanced login security requiring multiple verification methods
- Penetration testing frequency
- How often system undergoes security testing
- Regulatory reporting tools
- Built-in capabilities for generating compliance reports
- Role-based access control
- Granular permission settings based on user roles
- Security incident response time
- Speed of vendor response to identified security issues
- Session timeout controls
- Configurable automatic logout after periods of inactivity
- Single sign-on integration
- Support for enterprise identity management systems
Strategic Financial Planning
Features related to long-term financial strategy, capital structure, and investment planning
- Capital allocation visualization
- Visual representation of capital deployment across business units and projects
- Capital market conditions tracking
- Visual monitoring of external financing conditions and opportunities
- Cost of capital calculation
- Tools for determining and visualizing weighted average cost of capital
- Credit rating metrics
- Tracking of financial indicators relevant to credit rating assessments
- Debt portfolio management
- Visualization of outstanding debt, maturity profiles, and covenant tracking
- ESG impact visualization
- Integration of environmental, social, and governance metrics into financial planning
- Financial ratio tracking
- Monitoring of key financial ratios against targets and covenants
- Investment portfolio tracking
- Dashboard for monitoring short and long-term investment performance
- Investor relation analytics
- Visualization of shareholder metrics and stock performance indicators
- Long-term forecast horizon
- Maximum timeframe for strategic financial projections
- M&A impact analysis
- Visual modeling of acquisition or divestiture financial impacts
- Strategic scenario planning
- Tools for modeling long-term financial outcomes under different scenarios
Technical Capabilities
Features related to the technical performance, scalability, and integration capabilities of the dashboard solution
- API connectivity
- Number of available APIs for integration with other systems
- Cloud deployment option
- Availability of cloud-based implementation
- Data backup frequency
- How often system data is backed up
- Data processing capacity
- Volume of financial data the system can process simultaneously
- Disaster recovery time
- Time required to restore system functionality after major outage
- ERP integration
- Pre-built connectors to major enterprise resource planning systems
- Historical data retention
- Duration of historical data accessible through the dashboard
- Multi-tenant architecture
- Support for multiple business units with segregated data access
- On-premise deployment option
- Availability of on-premise implementation
- Response time
- Average time to load dashboard components
- Scalability metrics
- Maximum number of users supported without performance degradation
- System uptime
- Guaranteed availability of the dashboard solution
User Experience and Interface
Features related to usability, personalization, and accessibility of the dashboard
- Accessibility compliance
- Adherence to accessibility standards for users with disabilities
- Dark mode option
- Alternative color scheme for reduced eye strain
- Help documentation
- Integrated user guidance and support resources
- Interface response time
- Speed of user interface reactions to interactions
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Availability of keyboard commands for efficient navigation
- Multi-language support
- Number of languages available in the user interface
- Notification preferences
- User control over alert types and delivery methods
- Offline mode
- Ability to view critical dashboard components without internet connection
- Personalization options
- Ability for users to customize their experience based on preferences
- Role-based views
- Tailored dashboard displays based on user roles and responsibilities
- Search functionality
- Ability to search across dashboard components and data
- User activity tracking
- Monitoring of how users interact with the dashboard
Vendor Support and Service
Features related to implementation assistance, ongoing support, and product development
- 24/7 support availability
- Continuous access to technical assistance
- Customer satisfaction score
- Measured level of user satisfaction with the solution
- Customer success manager
- Dedicated contact for ongoing relationship management
- Implementation timeframe
- Average time required for full system deployment
- Knowledge base quality
- Comprehensiveness of self-service support resources
- Professional services availability
- Access to consultants for customization and optimization
- Release frequency
- How often new features and improvements are deployed
- Service level agreement
- Formal commitment to system performance and support standards
- Support response time
- Average time to receive initial response to support requests
- Training resources
- Availability of user education materials and programs
- User community
- Access to forums or networks of other system users
- User feedback incorporation
- Process for customers to influence product development