PowerPlanner

Multidimensional In-Memory OLAP Planning software for Budgeting, Forecasting, Analysis and Reporting based on Microsoft Excel PowerPivot

PowerPlanner is high-performance, robust and flexible enterprise planning software, that helps you develop budgets and forecasts faster and more efficiently. It provides a complete, dynamic environment for developing timely, reliable and personalized forecasts and budgets.

Create, compare and evaluate business scenarios, conditions, drivers, rates and assumptions and use best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting to determine resource requirements, operating performance and future business results in real time.

Rapidly analyze data and model business requirements for your entire organization and use the results to budget and forecast with confidence for better business outcomes. More than budgeting and forecasting software, PowerPlanner is a complete enterprise planning solution.

 

·         Make decisions instead of debating definitions and accuracy of multiple spreadsheets with a unified view of plan data that connects with key metrics and information.

·         Proceed from what-is to evaluate “what-if” scenarios critical to enterprise planning, developing budgets and forecasting future performance with sophisticated modeling instead of spreadsheets.

·         Eliminate unproductive activities such as tracking down numbers, fixing broken links and debugging macros.

·         Create better visibility of likely operating performance using best practices such as driver-based planning and flexible rolling forecasts.

·         Add power and sophistication to your business models with rich built-in functions.

·         Manage the solution without the need for programming languages or scripting. No IT input is required.

·         Quickly explore data, evaluate models, test assumptions and compare current performance with historical actuals and external benchmarks using drill-down and multidimensional cube slicing-and-dicing.

·         Enable greater participation, collaboration and commitment with user-friendly and familiar Microsoft Excel interface

·         Managed contribution makes it possible to assemble and deploy planning solutions for your enterprise and collect input from systems and staff from all divisions and locations, quickly consistently and automatically.

·         The MS PowerPivot multidimensional, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP engine provides exceptionally fast performance for analyzing complex and sophisticated models, large data sets.

·         A full range of enterprise planning software requirements is supported—from high-performance, on-demand profitability analysis, financial analytics and flexible modeling to enterprise-wide contribution from all business units.

·         Personal scenarios created with advanced personalization enable an unlimited number of ad-hoc alternatives so individuals, teams, divisions and whole companies can respond faster to changing conditions.

·         Best practices such as driver-based planning and rolling forecasting can become part of your enterprise planning process.

·         Model design and data access adapt to your business process and present business information in familiar formats.

·         Integrated scorecarding and reporting— the complete picture from goal setting and planning, to measuring progress and reporting.

·         Total control over planning, budgeting and forecasting processes is provided to Finance and lines of business