Planning and Forecasting

Our planning and forecasting solutions enable companies to optimize enterprise-wide budgeting, planning and forecasting processes. Our solutions adapt to the complete range of budgeting, planning and forecasting requirements, with the ability to model information and dimensions that reflect any range of business structures or methodologies. These include zero based incremental, real time planning, real time consolidations, real time reporting and analysis.

Our forecasting tools offer the ultimate solution for collaborative, real-time business intelligence, bringing ease, speed and flexibility to enterprise budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting and analysis. Where your company requires a simple web based reporting solution, or complex analyses of sales forecasts, customer profitability or balanced scorecard, our solutions provide the answer.

Bottom Up Budgeting

Our budgeting solution includes standard trending methods such as "percent change", "evenly spread" or spreads based on another scenario or line item. Custom trending methods can easily be defined with point and click ease such as "weeks in month", "business days" "quarterly in advance", "linear growth", seasonal or whatever trending or phasing reflects your business needs. These methods allow planners to input values for multiple time periods and quickly develop multiple "what if" scenarios through any of the pre-defined or customized trending methods.

Here are just some of the features available in our budgeting and forecasting solutions:

• Top down revisions in real time
• Bottom up planning
• User defined trending methods
• Rolling forecasts
• Strategic plans
• Workflow, alerts and notification
• Web enabled
• Multiple versions with version control
• Immediate "what if' scenarios
• Calculation engine to model assumptions, allocation, KPI calculations
• Capture and store notes to each line item to document rationale
• Multidimensional reporting
• Audit trail, read-only, read-write, or no access for enterprise security and data integrity