Performance Canvas Planning FAQ
What is Performance Canvas Planning?
It is unique, unified Performance Management product delivered as a server in the Performance Canvas family of products. It enables any business, regardless of size, to operate like the world's top performers. By accurate, simple and quick measurement and management of financial and operational Performance it creates unique advantages.
What type of applications the product be used for?
Performance Canvas Planning can be used for a wide range of applications such as financial, human resources, supply chain, capital planning, sales, profitability, and many others.
Why unified?
Most Performance Management products in the market are collections of products (integrated - not unified), each designed from the focus on a single function such as reporting, consolidation or planning. Since these functions are used overlapping in the context of business it makes sense to have them in a unified system. The advantages are significant cost savings, fast implementation, high data integrity and high data utility.
How does the Excel Planner work?
The Excel Planner is an Excel add-in that utilizes 100% of the native capabilities of Excel. It is a true Excel interface.
How does the Web Planner work?
The Web Planner is a type of Performance Canvas Gem that is available either as a standalone web-page, as a Web Part in Microsoft SharePoint or as a design element in Performance Canvas to create sophisticated solutions for both Web and Mobile use including Mashboard, Dashboards and Score cards with data entry capability.
What do you mean by Financial Intelligence?
Financial intelligence is a range of functions including currency conversion, allocations, intercompany eliminations, and numbers across time reporting(periodic, year-to-date, quarter-to-date, and others). Performance Canvas Planning allows each business rule or formula to be customized to support your specific needs and financial data.
How scalable is Performance Canvas Planning?
Like the full Performance Canvas family Planning uses intelligent caching and other tools to support very high processing speeds. Clients have realized reduction in processing times from hours to minutes using Performance Canvas Planning instead of other CPM tools. Performance Canvas Planning can scale to thousands of users with exceptional performance.
Can I move to Performance Canvas Planning?
Performance Canvas Planning has been used as a replacement for products like SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC), OutlookSoft and Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 Planning. Performance Canvas Planning offers superior performance, scalability, support and affordability. Since the core technology in the product is Microsoft-centric it capitalizes on your organizations current IT assets. Moving from other products like Hyperion or Cognos you will get the additional benefit of a single, fully unified CPM product rather than just a collection of integrated products. Often the investment is paid for in less than a year due to the high current costs of maintaining existing applications.
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