Ease the pain of budgeting and forecasting
By: Laura ErwinBy now, most businesses have finalized, approved and locked their budgets for 2009, but for many small and mid-sized businesses, the headache is still lingering. Using a spreadsheet-based system can be a time-consuming, error-prone process of manually tying together multiple worksheets, workbooks and formulas edited by multiple people. It’s not a system that will garner fond memories or excitement for the next budgeting cycle. In fact, research shows that analysts using Excel spend most of their time entering and collecting data instead of truly analyzing and forecasting business growth. If this scenario sounds familiar, now is the time to review a solution that will help make finance a value-added, strategic function.
The Adaptive Planning co-founders started their company with small and mid-sized businesses in mind. They knew these businesses needed an adaptive, collaborative, and affordable solution with easy-to-use business performance management tools for building financial models. That’s why, with little upfront capital investment, Adaptive Planning offers three levels of budgeting software for small and mid-sized companies.
Adaptive Planning Express Edition is a free version that delivers entry-level budgeting capabilities for departments and teams. Adaptive Planning Corporate Edition and Enterprise Edition are licensed products that provide enhanced features for company-wide budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis for an affordable, annual subscription. All editions can either be accessed as a web-based service or deployed onsite in a company’s datacenter. Data is managed in a single database to eliminate the frustration of consolidating departmental or multiple-location contributions to the budgeting process. Adaptive Planning also hosts a central reporting engine for timely and accurate information.
With all these benefits, coupled with a substantial decrease in budgeting time, the Adaptive Planning solution not only adds value, but also might make budgeting and forecasting a project to look forward to. About Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Planning empowers business users with the information needed to make better decisions. Adaptive Planning surpasses traditional methods of managing financial processes by offering the flexibility of spreadsheets with the structure and process of enterprise business intelligence applications.
For more information on Adaptive Planning, visit www.adaptiveplanning.com or contact Kraft Enterprise Systems, an Adaptive Planning Business Partner.
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