Canvas Planning
Business Process Management, Budgeting, Forecasting, Planning, and Reporting
A critical piece in any Performance Management strategy
In today’s business environment, control over budgeting and forecasting is key to your company’s competitive edge. But control needs to go far beyond setting goals and producing forecasts; the best CFOs have the ability to test business scenarios before they are deployed internally. Not just any tool will help them do this. They need a tool that is easy to use and lets them collaborate and analyze data in multiple environments, whether it’s their native MS Excel or the Web. Canvas Planning uses Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and Performance Canvas to create an environment suitable to seasoned CFOs creating advanced business scenarios and plans or the Sales Manager who wants to keep up-to-date on targets and costs. Whether your organization has two employees or two million employees, Canvas Planning can enable you to regain control of your financial processes.
Business Value
- Enables fast creation and delivery of plans, budgets, and forecasts
- Enables you to manage business processes
- Allow you to perform high level enterprise reporting
- Allows intregratration between departmental and corporate strategy into multiple what-if business scenarios
- Allows you to create financial and management reports quickly and easily
- Finance can improve budget cycle times across the organization Because users work within Excel, the learning curve is lowered dramatically and an increase in productivity can be measured right away
- Users are enabled to build their own cubes, users can build and execute multiple business rules, helping to automate the financial process, users can create multiple models and map business scenarios and users can write back to the existing database allowing them to quickly create sales forcasts on the fly
Workflow
Workflow is a simple out-of-the-box approval structure for contributor, data entry, reviewer and approver. The complete approval structure can be customized and the workflow cycles can based on multiple time periods/ entities/ categories/ scenarios.
Technology you can trust
Canvas Planning is built using experts behind world-class products from Hyperion Solutions, OutlookSoft and SAP. It uniquely combines all the features of Microsoft Excel with the relational and multi-dimensional capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server.
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"The speed of implementation with Canvas Planning has been phenomenal. Having a software that can listen to our internal systems, means we can respond to changes quickly, and make smarter decisions with the most information possible.”
- Kjell Dahlberg, Business Controller, Medstop AB
"Canvas Planning allows us to solve all of our customer's problems, we can continuously help them improve their business using just one product!"
- Anders Bölenius, Business Consultant, Cadeia