CONTROL® Features & Benefits
Real-time aggregations & consolidations across any number of dimensions
(Business areas, locations, products, customers, markets, etc.)
- Provides instant visibility to changes
- Eliminates the frustration of dealing with "old data" or having to wait for data to get updated or consolidated
- Accelerates the development of plans and forecasts
- Supports the iterative nature of planning and forecasting
- Faciliates high-participation planning up, down, and across the enterprise
Built-in ability to automatically incorporate data from multiple sources with inherent drill back to underlying details
- Unites and keeps in sync metadata and data from different functional areas enabling strategic alignment
- Eliminates manual uploads saving time and resources
- Guarantees you are working with up-to-date financial and operational information
- Fast-tracks the ability to understand the root cause of problems and act quickly to resolve
- Promotes a culture of operational transparency and data-driven planning and decision making
Unlimited number of scenarios and side-by-side comparisons and charting
- Enables quick and easy impact analysis and understanding of the effects on financial performance
- Makes it easy to simulate long-term alternative strategies and contingent scenarios
- Facilitates the stress testing of financial models
- Improves front-line accuracy from the people closest to the activities being planned
Dynamic pivot, slice & dice, compress, expand, rotate, nest, stack, and graphing
- Makes it easy to analyze data from multiple perspectives
- Brings actionable insights to the surface
- Fuels and facilitates data-driven decision making
- Enables a culture of accountability and results
Ad-Hoc filtering, selections and reporting branches for “on-the-fly” consolidations and user defined reporting
- Empowers all users to efficiently access, evaluate, comprehend, and act upon the most relevant information to them
- Puts information at the users fingertips enabling razor-sharp focus
- Enables users to author reports for unique/specialized informational needs without any IT involvement
- Facilitates timely and smart decision making
Automatic ability to solve across members of the dimension when a target total is declared
- Instantly and immediately updates an entire plan or forecast
- Enables quick determination and assessment of the required levels of input to meet a target
- Fast tracks the ability to implement top down adjustments and adapt to management directives
- Facilitates smart and timely analysis and decision-making
On-the-spot Currency Translation accommodating any number of rates (period, average balance, etc.) and rate scenario management
- Simplifies the measurement and understanding of FX exposure across a portfolio of businesses and time
- Facilitates the assessment of the impact of movements in currency rates on financial results and cashflows
- Enables the management of currency risks
- Allows uncontrollable components to be easily removed from financial results
- Ensures people in different countries see information in currencies they can relate to
Intrinsic Workflow spanning both submit and approve and large scale repetitive process
- Provides efficient visibility into the status of the planning and forecasting cycles and the various contributors
- Promotes completeness and timeliness
- Enables real-time review, approve, or reject of plan and forecast contributions
- Supports rapid feedback and improves communications
- Ensures processes are executed in a disciplined, rigorous and repeatable manner
Single point administration with automatic ripple of any change
- Expedites the ability to efficiently adapt to change (organizational, market, competitive, and regulatory)
- Guarantees consistency and integrity
- Simplifies maintenance
- Reduces total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Reduces required staff
User owned and managed – minimal IT support
- Reduces the demand and dependency on IT resources
- Puts the application structure closer to the people that have the domain expertise
- Empowers workers to focus on what is important and be more strategic
- Promotes an analytical culture
Commentary & Hyperlinks
- Simplifies the communication of the rationale and policies behind plans and forecasts
- Provides context for the data
- Facilitates collaboration
- Aids analysis and enhances decision-making
Template-driven reports
- Provides a variety of"look and feel" at your fingertips saving time and effort
- Eliminates the proliferation of reports with same data and different formats
- Facilitates consistency and uniformity of reporting formats
- Spend less time on formatting - more time on analysis
Integrated financial calculation library using syntax similar to Microsoft® Excel®
- Allows any business calculation to be easily modelled - the world is quite literally your oyster
- Facilitates understanding of how measures are computed
- Leverage the expertise and familiarity that exists within your staff
Out-of-the-box sophisticated time-series forecasting capabilities
- Leverages the value of historical patterns and trends in forward looking estimates
- Improves accuracy of inputs for production planning and staffing
- Speeds-up the forecasting process
- Puts the power of data analysis at your fingertips
Visual depiction of the application architecture
- Provides an elegant and intuitive road map of the application
- Empowers users to explore, understand and absorb roll-ups, interrelationships, interconnections and data flows
- Supports the rapid development of models and time to value
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