Prabhaat

At Prabhaat, we have over a decade of experience working in the railroad industry.  Collaborating closely with various leasing companies, repair shops and railroads, we have developed a suite of tools custom-built to address the industry’s unique needs and challenges. These tools allow you to automate various business processes able to provide an accurate, unified view of the information landscape upon which sophisticated business intelligence solutions can be built. We also provide strategic business consulting to companies, to help them identify and execute business strategies that support cost savings, growth, increased customer and producer satisfaction, and other industry-driven objectives. 

• ► Our Rail Solutions: Rail-Pack
• ► Industry Trends & Challenges: How Rail-Pack addresses them?
• ► Our Rail Solutions Promise Quick & Quantifiable ROI

Rail-Pack Framework

Our Rail Solutions

I) BI-Pack: BI-Pack is a Business Intelligence Module integrated with existing operational level modules/systems of your organization. It is a framework which is customizable to suit the unique business needs of the client. Our business analysis team carry out detailed business analysis and assessments to identify critical success factors of your organization. They also determine the metrics to measure the these CSFs and then they form the underpinning of the architecture of BI-Pack: the elements that are measured and displayed on dashboards and analytics. Our BI-Pack provides reports that unveil actionable insights on CSFs such asRailcar utilization, Operating expenses with breakup expenses, Repair and Maintenance Costs, Gross Profit, Revenue which translates into business action in the form of decisions you must take to be successful 2) Rail-Pack: It is a package of Business Intelligence Module (BI-Pack) running on the top of operational level modules that we can design as a part of our Custom Application Development offerings:

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   1. Business Analysis

Our business analysis team carry our detailed business analysis and assessments of critical success factors of your organization, business processes and supporting IT infrastructure and security solutions.

a. Critical Success Factors: Business Analysis Team determines the metrics to measure these CSF which form the underpinning of the architecture of BI module of the Rail-Pack: the elements that are measured and displayed on dashboards and analytics such as Railcar utilization, Operating expenses with breakup expenses, Repair and Maintenance Costs, Gross Profit, Revenue etc.

Business solutions should provide comprehensive view of all the aspects of business data. Traditional reports which are historical and static in nature provide data insights on one business aspect only.
Our solutions provide reports with comprehensive view of business data such as lease rate, lease period, revenue and repair expenses of different railcars to compare their profitability and make sound strategic business decisions related to acquisition of new railcars and lease rates for future leases.    

1. b. Business Processes: Business Analysis Team works closely with the project sponsors and the teams within relevant departments that will benefit from the operational modules and performs detailed business analysis and needs assessment. This deliverable is then discussed with the customer and upon approval, the business needs are converted into functional specifications for developing these operational level modules.

1. c. IT infrastructure & Security Management: Our IT experts/team assess the existing infrastructure and of your organization if they are capable to grow with the changing business needs. Rail-Pack comprises of robust and secure infrastructure services to complement our BI solutions. Security aspect is tightly embedded in Rail-Pack to deliver solutions which are reliable and secure.

1. 1. 2. Custom Software development: Operational Modules
      
   
   

   	Modules that are part of our Rail-Pack are: Repairs Module Estimate Module Invoicing Module Mileage Module Inventory Management Module Asset Management Module Switch Bill Module Storage Module Business Intelligence Module- BIPack
   Rail-Pack Modules

   
   3.BI-Toolkit:

   
   It is a set of online tools that we offer are integrated with operational modules to give real-time access to information on status of critical business processes. BI-Toolkit comes as a part of Rail-Pack and can be implemented with BI-Pack integrated with existing operational level modules of your system. These solutions may be hosted on-site or in our cloud as part of our cloud computing services. BI-Toolkit includes:

2. a. Customer Self-Service portal: CustRight: For leasee to access lease information through personal space on web-portal.
3. b. Assessment Test & Evaluation Portal: TestRight: For Recruitement test and training assessments of employees.
4. c. Tracking Tools:TrackRight: For tracking repair process status, repair equipment warranty status, employee work schedule status, railcar utilization status, interview status of candidates.
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   4. Infrastructure Services:
   
   

   Our Infrastructure Services complement the Business solutions team and can help small and mid-size businesses implement scalable, secure and robust core IO offerings that include:

• a. Directory Services
• b. Messaging
• c. Collaboration 
• d. Networking solutions



It makes organizational systems running on top of robust infrastructure, the agility and adaptability to grow with growing business needs.
Our Security and Identity Management services make our BI package secure and reliable. Application vulnerability assessments are done by our development team to ensure that security aspect is tightly embedded in the solutions we develop.

Seven Industry Trends& Challenges: How Rail-Pack addresses them?
 
‘Our forecast for 2012 is that during the upcoming months, we’ll see extreme market fluctuations paired by an equipment shortage or excess to meet those fluctuations.’

‘Key issues for 2012:
 (1) Having the right equipment for the part of the economy that is expanding.’

Now, more than ever, it is becoming imperative that businesses equip themselves with the right tools and solutions that provide real-time and up-to-date access to critical business indicators. In the absence of these tools, decision making is not only delayed but may be based upon inaccurate and/or outdated information. 

Business Intelligence Rail solutions from Prabhaat take you from analytics epiphany to valuable business decisions/action that transforms business performance. Our solutions allow you to leverage the power of analysed data into actionable business insights. These insights are not the historical and static data but are real-time and up-to-datedinsights which make them more valuable for current business decisions. Analysis tools equip users to have valuable business insights in the form of reports highlighting trends of critical business indicators that drive business performance.

BI Dashboard

(2) “We’ll continue to see a boom within the oil, shale, crude and ethanol market, and we expect to see the lumber and aggregate markets follow in their footsteps in a supportive role to house workers and build roads and infrastructure in these areas which, coupled with a booming scrap market, will limit access to flat cars, mill gondolas and ballast rail cars."

Do your existing tools provide you with the breakdown of revenue, costs and expenses based upon the type of commodity that your customers transfer? Effective capacity and resource planning, for example, requires detailed analysis of trends that correlate the type of commodity being carried to the repairs incurred.

Rail-Pack gives you access to analysis tools using which users can view customized reports. Users can drill-down business indicators data such as revenue, costs and expenses on the basis of different commodities transferred by their customers. Analysis tools in Repair Management module of Rail-Pack allow users to slice and dice the repair data according to railcars used for different commodities by different customers. These reports allow them to compare profitability of different Railcars carrying different commodities based on the revenue, cost and repair data and enable you to act on this insight by making sound future leasing and buying decision.

Customized Reports