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The Goal of CPM
Corporate Performance Management strives
to enhance the quality and timeliness of corporate decision-making
by automating and integrating the key analytic processes that
drive those decisions. A3 Modeling compresses budgeting and
reporting cycle time, delivers deep visibility into corporate
performance detail, and brings integrity and compliance to
a dynamic business. Efficiency, visibility, and compliance,
all with A3.
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A3 Modeling Delivers Fast, Affordable Corporate Performance
Management
A3 Modeling 2005™ is a next-generation analytic application
platform that delivers comprehensive Corporate Performance Management
solutions that are deeply integrated with Microsoft Excel in a true
Web architecture. Based on the patent-pending Spreadsheet Automation
Server technology, A3 Modeling enables more flexible, more scalable
solutions delivered more quickly and at a lower total cost than
products from traditional packaged applications vendors.
For more information on the "5 Key Advantages of A3 Modeling
with Spreadsheet Automation Server Technology", click
here.
At the core of A3 Modeling is new patent-pending Spreadsheet Automation
Server technology that, for the first time in history, delivers
the full spectrum of CPM functionality in a single unified architecture
in a robust, enterprise Web architecture.
Features include:
- Comprehensive Corporate Performance Management
- Real-time spreadsheets
- Dynamically links corporate Excel models over the Web to
their ERP and operational data stores
- Brings alive even the most complex spreadsheet models
- Formerly static models can be built dynamically, from scratch,
in real time
- Flexible KPI dashboards
- Browser dashboard support for highly complex, derived statistical
information and KPI's
- Graphs, charts, traffic lighting
- Dashboards are designed in Excel leveraging the "no
limits" spreadsheet modeling capabilities
- Personalized, contextualized
- Models are fully personalized and contextualized for the
user based on the data selected, the user's role, and security
settings at the application and database level
- Modeling power
- Enjoy the full "no-limits" financial modeling
power of Excel
- Fully exploit the complete feature set modeling power of
OLAP without compromise. A3 Modeling is one of the few applications
that does not impose heavy restrictions on cube design
- Workflow and communication efficiency features
- The most flexible and easy to configure workflow and alerts
system in the industry
- Support for tracking multiple processes each involving multiple
approval steps
- Familiarity and cost savings
- Capitalize on the extensive corporate-wide knowledge of
Excel
- Highly efficient and maintainable deployments
- Familiar Excel-based configuration environment
- "Spreadsheet meta data" objects are reused to
accelerate deployment and to dramatically streamline maintenance
- "Single unified technology" means deep integration
and scalability
- The centralized "single unified technology" architecture
allows deployment of the full spectrum of Corporate Performance
Management functionality without the need to purchase and
interface multiple non-integrated products and modules
- Deep, flexible leverage of Excel, OLAP, relational and Web
technologies enables the scalability to address a diverse
user community exceeding 1000 users
- Cross-platform
- Support for multiple OLAP platforms including Microsoft
SQL Server Analysis Services and multiple derivatives of Hyperion
Essbase including IBM DB2 OLAP and SPSS Showcase
- Support for all common relational database platforms
- Choice of J2EE and (coming soon) pure .NET versions of A3
Modeling
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