SOLUTIONS USING THE A3 MODELING SPREADSHEET APPLICATION SERVER™

The A3 Modeling Spreadsheet Application Server™ is used by customers in diverse applications across multiple industries including Airlines, Education and Public sector, Finance, Manufacturing, Publishing, Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation.

Organically grown spreadsheet systems frequently outgrow their capacity, becoming labor intensive and prone to error, causing delays and reduced confidence among the executive decision makers who rely on them. This is where the A3 Modeling Spreadsheet Application Server can help – when the pain of maintaining your spreadsheets begins to outweigh the value they provide.

Where is your enterprise overly dependent on spreadsheets? Here are a few examples of how A3 Solutions’ customers are using A3 Modeling:

Finance
   Driver-based budgeting
   Management reporting
   Monthly, weekly, daily rolling forecasting
   Multi-currency consolidations

Operations
   KPI data collection and monitoring
   Product profitability and demand planning
   Operational modeling and analysis applications

I.T.
   Risk & compliance monitoring and surveys
   IT project and capital asset tracking

H.R.
   Compensation and headcount forecasting and modeling
   Workforce allocations and optimization.

BENEFITS
Business-driven and customizable by end users…
                … yet centralized and secure, under IT control.

End Users Get Flexibility: A3 Modeling empowers spreadsheet experts to transform their most complex spreadsheet systems into real-time, business-driven applications. Your team builds these applications using widely available spreadsheet and database skills. No programming: no HTML, no JAVA, no VBA.

I.T. Gets Control: While spreadsheet experts design their solution, IT retains ultimate control of the data, security and access.

Upgrade existing applications…
                … or construct new ones!

A3 customers use the A3 Modeling Spreadsheet Application Server in one of two ways:

I) Customers convert manual, file-based spreadsheet systems into enterprise class applications. When A3 Modeling is applied to transform existing spreadsheet systems, the important business logic and design elements of your spreadsheet models are preserved and the data is moved into central SQL tables and OLAP cubes (e.g., Oracle, Hyperion, and/or Microsoft). This approach saves weeks of labor compared to traditional approaches of ripping and replacing spreadsheet functionality from scratch.

II) I.T. and Business Users collaborate on new applications. When building new applications, IT and Business Users share the labor between spreadsheet design (business users) and database design (IT users), creating a truly collaborative, rapid development process. The result is extremely fast deployments with high user satisfaction that meet the security and integration requirements of IT.

Is your enterprise overly dependent on spreadsheets? Consider the A3 Modeling Spreadsheet Application Server.