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Data-Driven Insights

NCM’s business intelligence tools provide your dealership with real-time, actionable data to make informed decisions.

Our comprehensive reporting solutions help you analyze performance, identify opportunities, and drive growth, all through easy-to-understand reporting tailored to your unique needs. Empower your team with data-driven insights to boost profitability and efficiency.

Automotive – Data Reporting Tools

a spiral bound NCM composite report is overlayed with a spreadsheet, focused on the title "The Numbers Tell the Story"

Benchmark Reporting

Our Benchmark Reporting offers advanced financial and statistical analysis tools to automotive dealers and OEMs, providing metrics-driven insights that enable clients to compare operations against industry benchmarks, identify improvement areas, and drive higher profitability through data-driven decision-making

an example axcessa dashboard that shows a summary for the service/parts department for a dealership

Axcessa

NCM’s Axcessa, created by dealers for dealers, seamlessly integrates with your DMS to deliver critical, easy-to-understand online reports that provide Actionable Intelligence® and help you track your business metrics against NCM’s automotive benchmarks while holding your team accountable.

An example of an Echo Total Operations Dashboard with pie charts and data for sales, expenses, and profit

Echo

NCM Echo® software, a web-based tool built by automotive experts, helps you save time on reporting and decision-making by easily collecting, validating, and customizing financial data across locations, generating reports and dashboards quickly, and providing clearer insights through side-by-side performance comparisons. Ideal for automotive groups.

example core dashboard. Includes 4 pie charts for sales, GP, profit, and expenses by department. There is a section for KPI overview, and more detail overviews of financials for new and used vehicles, services, and body shop.

NCM Core ® – For OEMs

NCM Core®, created for automotive OEMs, simplifies enterprise-level reporting by providing a holistic, user-friendly, and secure platform that consolidates financial and non-financial data from various dealerships, offering customized dashboards with dynamic charts and metrics to help make informed decisions quickly and efficiently.

Recreational Equipment – Data Reporting Tools

example dashboard comparing anticipated year-end financials to budget-to-date using bar graphs. There is a section for month-end cash position and comparing season trends.

TRUE® Dashboard 

NCM’s True Dashboard is an online, real-time tool that goes beyond just raw numbers. The 24-hour, interactive dashboards and management reports provide true measures of your business. In a competitive and unpredictable playing field, knowing your dealership’s red, yellow and green flags isn’t an option. It’s a necessity.

Example company analysis spreadsheet detailing financial comparisons between dealers to demonstrate financial trends.

TRENDS Reporting 

NCM’s Industry Trends report aggregates data from hundreds of businesses across the U.S. and Canada, segmented by industry and sales volume groupings, providing valuable benchmarks in areas such as inventory levels, sales, gross margins, expenses, net profit, and other relevant metrics.

example Company Department Summary spreadsheet including example departments and financials organized by expense type.

Budgeting – Profit Planner Premium

Profit Planner Premium is an easy-to-use, fully online forecasting tool that helps you build a comprehensive financial plan—covering everything from sales to expenses—while showing how small changes impact the bigger picture and spreading monthly targets based on your unique seasonality.

Example expense and profit spreadsheets for categories including personnel, advertising, variable and fixed expenses, as well as net profit or loss.

Budgeting – Profit Planner Express 

Profit Planner Express is a powerful online budgeting tool that brings you company-level budgets, multi-user access, data import from NCM submissions, direct transfers to ETA, detailed projections by department or product type, and flexible scenario planning—all designed to make dealership budgeting fast, accurate, and hassle-free.

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Hear From Our Clients

  • Axcessa is a key asset to our organization. From forecasting, work-in-process management, and contracts in transit. The performance reports for individuals in various departments are an amazing tool. Axcessa puts it ALL at the click of a button!

    – Erik Gree, Dealer Principal, Harry Green Chevrolet

  • The human side is huge and once you learn to identify that person who’s standing across the desk from you, as long as you've got the right personality behind the desk, you're going to have success. That has nothing to do with counting the numbers, but it's sure important in...

    – Bill Ansley III, Owner, Ansley RV

  • NCM Axcessa is possibly the best software I have ever used at a dealership.

    – Paul Visconti, Service Director, AutoFair Ford

  • To all thinking about Axcessa, this is the best analysis tool I have ever seen. If you want to know where you are at any particular time of the month then this is for you. The forecasting tool is phenomenal, the summary exception reports will let you drill down to...

    – Wayne Skinner, VP of Operations, Premier Automotive

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