It used to take me 2 weeks to get answers to questions such as 'How many measures met their performance targets last year?'
With START, I get answers in minutes."
Director of Performance
Federal Agency
What is START?
Plexus Scientific’s Strategic Tracking And Reporting Tool (START) is a secure and configurable web-based platform that enables an organization to efficiently track, manage, visualize, and report any strategic and operational information that it would like to track. In use at the National Institutes of Health since 2004, the platform is growing in use daily where it serves as their enterprise-wide planning, data collection, and reporting platform to meet the needs of each of the institutes, centers, and offices while allowing the Office of the Director to coordinate activities and track progress. Some examples of applications that have been configured with the START platform are described below.
Featured Modules
START is comprised of custom built modules all housed in one easy to use interface. These modules provide you with a multitude of features tailored to your organization's needs. Each module has been built with specific purposes that allow for a wide range of functionality to help make your work more efficient!
Executive Order Tracker
Create a repository of executive orders, and all memos and other requests aligned with executive orders, as well as any associated documents.
Key Features
Data Repository
START is able to help manage data with easy-to-use features such as a repository of requests or specific data sets.
Strategic Planning
Create strategic plans in a format that suits your organization’s needs to help track activities and customizeable dashboards.
Risk Managment
START provides enterprise-level risk management capabilities. Define capabilities and maturity, develop mitigation and response strategies, and track the status of each risk over its lifetime.
Budget Reporting
START has a specialized module to support data collection and generation of reports that presents cross-cutting budgetary information, monitor year-over-year funding with a simplified user interface.
A Searchable Library of Your Data
The START team is able to quickly create tailor-made customer-focused interfaces to manage a variety of data.
Enterprise Strategic Planning and Execution
Create strategic plans in a format that suits your organization’s needs. Define the structure of your plan with custom filters and a variety of outputs.
Tracking, Management, and Reporting
Plexus can help you to configure data calls that contain your specified content to collect and create interactive dashboards and reports to help you gain real-time insight.
Get in Touch!
For more information on how you can get STARTed, contact Bhaumik Patel, Director of START.
