The SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application unifies and streamlines the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and can enable a faster close. Finance-owned and maintained, the application unifies planning, financial consolidation and management reporting for the enterprise – improving budget cycle times, driving compliance with regulatory and financial standards, helping reduce external audit costs, instilling confidence, and reducing business risk.With SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as complete consolidation and reporting, is available through a single, unified application and user interface. You can benefit from: Improved agility – Quickly model new business scenarios and decide on a course of action that maximizes value creation Reduced cycle time – Finance and line-of-business managers can collaborate in a unified landscape, streamlining the process of creating and approving plans, budgets, and forecasts. Minimized business and compliance risk – Transparent financial data and a single version of the truth enable fast, accurate management and statutory reporting. Increased user productivity – An intuitive interface and familiar office tools help workers make the most of their time.For more information visit company's web site:http://www.sap.comor product homepage:http://www.sap.com/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/large/enterprise-performance-management/planningandconsolidation/index.epx
The IBM Cognos TM1 product
is a multidimensional solution for budgeting, planning, forecasting, consolidations, reporting,
and analytics. TM1 allows organizations to continuously monitor
and manage overall business performance. It integrates with Microsoft Excel,
and enables users to perform agile, self-service analysis of large, highly
complex, and rapidly changing data sets with real-time response. IBM Cognos
TM1 Web is a web-enabled front end that provides read, write, and what-if modeling
capabilities. IBM Cognos TM1 Executive Viewer is an easy-to-use
self-service reporting and analytics tool.
For more information, visit the company's web site
http://www.ibm.com
or the product homepage
http://www.cognos.com/products/tm1/index.html
or the IBM page
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/info/cognos/
SAP BusinessObjects Edge Business
Intelligence (BI) enables small and medium-sized companies to take advantage of
the same business and operational benefits of BI that large enterprises
experience—without the cost or technical resource requirements of
enterprise-class BI technology. These benefits include
familiar keyword searches to find information hidden in data
sources;
navigation and exploration directly on data;
flexible ad hoc reporting and analysis;
dashboards and visualization;
data
integration and quality; and
prepackaged data mart solutions.
For more information, visit the
company’s Web site
http://www.sap.com/usa/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/index.epx
or the product
homepage
http://www.sap.com/usa/solutions/sapbusinessobjects/sme/edgeseries/index.epx
Infor PM 10 combines the
strengths of performance management and business intelligence (BI) to create a
true closed-loop performance management solution. The software is designed to
help companies
align goals and resources by linking strategic plans,
operational plans, performance measures, and people;
create and compare what-if scenarios to meet targets and
objectives;
eliminate spreadsheet chaos by deploying a familiar Microsoft
Excel interface on top of a single database;
manage performance expectations through accurate forecasts;
and
close their books quickly, accurately, and
globally.
Infor PM 10 provides capabilities
for strategic management, planning and budgeting, forecasting, financial
consolidation, and reporting and analysis.
For more information, visit the
company’s Web site
www.infor.com
or the product
homepage
http://www.infor.com/solutions/pm/pm10/
Bitam’s Artus solution offers access to company
information from one or multiple data sources, and includes access to management
dashboards that monitor daily performance and carry out analyses.
ALG Software's Enterprise Performance Optimization Suite is a web-based solution, which includes predictive planning (for driver-based planning and budgeting, activity analysis (for activity-based costing and profitability analysis), performance management (for scorecarding and metrics management), and financial consolidation (for statutory reporting and financial consildation).
Hyperion System 9 is a business performance management
(BPM) system integrating a modular suite of financial management applications
with business intelligence (BI) capabilities for reporting and analysis.
The BOARD Management Intelligence
Toolkit provides a variety of BI functions, including reporting,
multidimensional analysis, ad hoc querying, and dashboarding.
