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Budgeting
Budgeting is a critical step in planning and controlling day-to-day operations and driving
corporate performance.
In a vast majority of organizations, doing budgeting is synonymous with using a
spreadsheet, but Excel imposes serious limitations. "Spreadsheet hell" is the term often
used to describe this situation: the potential for errors, the lack of security, the
absence of an audit trail, the inability to support the level of collaboration required to
deliver consolidated budgets and low productivity are the main causes.
The challenge is to provide reasonable management of budgeting processes without removing
the obvious benefits inherent to spreadsheets.
With BOARD, everything the enterprise needs to manage corporate planning processes
is available through a single and integrated framework. Thank to the revolutionary
"toolkit approach," BOARD offers the flexibility that CPM suites don't provide, in
addition to the functionalities and the data consistency that Excel cannot deliver.
Unifying CPM and BI capabilities, BOARD enables greater control and provides users
insight that they can use throughout the budgeting cycle, while dramatically reducing the
time required to accomplish the process.
Key features
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Single integrated framework
for support, control and management of Performance
Management processes including ABC, profitability
analysis, planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting,
and score-carding |
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Complete process management including workflow, audit trail, versioning and status control |
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Single version of the facts ensuring data accuracy and consistency |
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Rolling forecasting and budgeting |
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Split and Splat, to modify data at all aggregation levels (e.g. budget per division) and automatically distribute change to the lowest level of detail (e.g. article and customer) |
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Concurrent write back, to allow planning data storage directly inside the company's relational data-warehouse |
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What-if and what-for scenario planning that is easily measured against budgets in real-time |
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Elimination of the errors typically encountered when relying on linked spreadsheets
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