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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,
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Bring Flexibility, Scalability, and Ease of Use to Your
Budgeting and Forecasting
A3 Modeling, with patent-pending Spreadsheet Automation Server
technology, represents a breakthrough in budgeting flexibility,
functionality and cost. Unlike traditional packages that force you
to discard your investment in spreadsheets and re-engineer your
complex budgeting rules and processes, A3 Modeling allows you to
automate your existing budgeting spreadsheets and fully leverage
your Excel modeling skills. A3 Modeling combines the "no-limits"
modeling of Excel with a scalable Web and cross-platform OLAP architecture,
enabling Excel power users to quickly and cost-effectively deploy
highly customized enterprise-class budgeting models. Work with your
familiar budgeting models, now delivered over the Web, in real-time,
fully personalized, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliant.
A3 also offers a suite of pre-configured, fully-integrated starter
models that are proven in production at multiple large enterprises
and that you can learn to tailor to your specific needs. These templates
can be individually or collectively plugged into your application,
and mixed and matched with your own automated spreadsheet models
to complete your enterprise solution. Templates include:
- Revenue forecasting
- Expense budgeting
- Compensation and benefits planning
- Capital budgeting
Budgeting Features Include:
- "No Limits" Spreadsheet Automation Server
technology
- Leverage your existing spreadsheet systems
- Capitalize on your team's Excel expertise
- Full integration with Reporting, Consolidations, Dashboards
- Comprehensive solution
- Integrates and reconciles diverse business views e.g., marketing,
operations and finance
- Simultaneous support for both bottom-up and top-down methodologies
- Full support for complex financial rules and allocation
processes
- Rolling forecasts with incremental 'actuals' population
- Efficiency and productivity features seasonal and pattern
spreading wizards
- Conduct interactive what-if analysis across the entire
corporate hierarchy
- Process management through workflow
- Line item detail and annotations
- Ability to link to homegrown models with the option of
preserving links for future sessions
- Detail driver-based forecasting
- Versioning and variance reporting
- Dashboard monitoring of budget progress and Key Performance
Indicators (KPIs)
- Online and offline usage
- High relevancy, high personalization, "no-limits"
Excel modeling flexibility
- Dynamic, context-driven spreadsheet models, built on-demand,
in real time
- Instant results of complex financial modeling rules
- Powerful administration features
- Security: Easy to manage, highly flexible security and audit
functionality
- Enforcement of corporate goals and business rules
- Centralized input repository with controls for user input
- Scenario management
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