Advanced Budgeting is a multidimensional controlling planning and analysis tool It simplifies and reduces the time needed for even the most complex and in-depth planning and analysis tasks

Planning • Complete financial model, with integrated P&L, Balance-Sheet and Cash-flow planning: During the planning process users only need to plan the P&L and the system calculates the corresponding Balance-Sheet, and Cash-flow using the pre-customized Balance-Sheet connections • Supports detailed (even daily) planning, in an any number of dimensions o e.g. Product, Customer, Country, Cost center, Version, Time, etc.

• Complex Business Logic, fully customizable by the user. Beyond normal financial planning tasks, the system is suited for in-depth planning tasks involving statistical figures

• In addition to the standard OLAP functions (MDX) all Excel and VBA functions are accessible to users including all predefined financial and statistical functions, which greatly simplifies building new formulas

• Top-down planning based on original data, or reference values     o e.g. Plan values can be top-down allocated by last years fact data

• Fast calculations, simulations o When the base data changes, all calculations are immediately updated, no need to run any procedures (e.g. cost allocations)

• Wide-range simulation possibilities
     o Undo option
     o Multi-level versioning

• Bi-directional calculations
     o Goal-seeking in even complex chained expressions and top down levels
     o e.g. When modifying the Margin the system can recalculate the Sales quantity,
              , Unit price or Variable cost per unit

Data import

• Supports import from all kind of databases accessible via OLE DB or ODBC
    o e.g.: MS SQL Server, MS Access, MS Excel, Text, Oracle, DBF, DB2 etc.

• Monthly, weekly, daily, etc. automatically scheduled, or manual import

Analysis

• Fast, detailed reports using the OLAP data cube technology

• User friendly, drag & drop report creation, which does not require any previous knowledge of query or programming languages

• Fully customizable Chart Wizard

• Monthly, weekly, daily, etc. automatic scheduling of reports in many formats (PDF, Excel, Html, etc), and publication to various places (Web, email, Fileserver etc.)

• Data in the system is easily accessible / reportable from many existing systems (e.g. Excel), without installing any add-ins, or additional software

• Industry standard OLAP engine: MS Analysis Services. Minimum MS SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition, recommended MS SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (x64)

• Online Ad-hoc reporting from web-client