Streamlined workflow management

• Track participation throughout the planning process, participant status - not started, in progress, or ready for review - with intuitive, color-coded icons.
• Facilitates collaboration with participant comments stored within the system and shared with other participants to shorten planning cycles. Automatic email notification when change in workflow status.
• Distributed administration enables delegation of responsibility for planning to multiple business units, workgroups, or individuals in the organization.
• Flexible security ensures that business units, workgroups, or individuals see only the templates that they require.

Intuitive data modeling tools to fit you business

• No programming required.
• Multi-dimensional and hierarchy aware data model based on industry standard and leading database.
• Comprehensive data interface tool to import data, dimension values and hierarchies from multiple sources using ODBC connectivity, text files or Excel.
• Change data models and business logic quickly and easily.

• Create detailed functional planning models for headcount planning, detailed sales forecasting, managing shared services allocations and other operational planning purposes and connect them together into an integrated plan using the system’s powerful connector logic

Sophisticated data entry and analysis features

• Real-time collaborative data updates allow the impact of data entries, calculations, aggregations and allocations to be viewed immediately in all affected functional planning models.
• Multi-dimensional slice-and-dice and drill-down capabilities assist the user in navigating data models, and evaluating impact of data entries quickly and efficiently.
• Real-time allocation, automatically spreads high-level targets and assumptions across multiple dimensions without the need to define special business rules.
• Openness of the application offers interface with Excel and other alternative reporting and analysis tools at the click of a mouse.

Technology Reassurance

• Developed using latest C# .NET technology and compatible with Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database technologies
• Fully scaleable, open and high performance data architecture
• Smart Client technology takes the hurt out of updating software. No need to plan rollout strategy - new software updates are made available to all users so everyone can be upgraded at the same time
• Available as both an On-Demand and On-Premise solution