29/11/2011

By Scott Thompson

BI consultancy, Project Brokers, has unveiled an expense management application which can be accessed via the Xbox Kinect games console. This allows users to access and control the application using their body movements, mimicking the Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg movie, Minority Report.

The company says that the Kinect integration can enable many firms, especially investment banks, direct line savings of up to 20 per cent. The application maximises visibility of employee expenditure on travel, entertainment, business information services and telephony. It enables the extraction and consolidation of expense data from multiple vendors and sources into a user-friendly, interactive dashboard. As a result, managers can accurately identify employees who are spending excessively, effectively manage multiple vendors and expose anomalies and inaccuracies in their expenses data.

Daren Cox, CEO at Project Brokers, says: “We are bringing the sci-fi cutting edge experience of Minority Report to the reporting process for City firms. Accessing and manipulating data via the Xbox Kinect is designed to be part of the innovative and forward-thinking approach that Project Brokers is known for. The feedback and response from a demo at the Business Discovery World Tour was overwhelmingly positive and encouraging. We expect this to be the first part of a growing trend towards the way City firms manage their data reporting requirements.”