BusinessObjects Edge Planning
Planning, budgeting and forecasting for mid-sized organizations
BusinessObjects Edge Planning provides a powerful planning, budgeting and forecasting solution for mid-sized organizations. It enables organizations to produce detailed - yet flexible - plans and budgets. They can easily create driver-based models, analyze scenarios, and share information with managers for increased accountability. It is ideal for budgeting, payroll planning, and sales planning.
Designed for mid-sized organizations, BusinessObjects Edge Planning provides a low cost, easy to use, and quick implementation for growing companies to adopt more sophisticated budgeting and planning tools. BusinessObjects Edge Planning reduces planning cycle time, increases reporting accuracy, and improves transparency across your organization. The solution is easily accessible through online and offline options, letting you foster bottom-up and top-down collaboration, ensure organizational buy-in, and drive accountability.
"We needed something that was quick, familiar, and easy to use, so our budget managers could easily take on the responsibility of managing their own businesses."
Ruth Igawa
VP / Manager, Enterprise Risk
American Savings Bank
Technical Specifications
Version:
BusinessObjects Edge Planning
Editions:
BusinessObjects Edge Planning
Data Sources:
SQL Server and Oracle
License Model:
10, 30, 60 NUL (Named User Licenses)
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
System Requirements
Processor:
Dual Processes 2 GHZ (four processor recommended for large deployments)
Memory:
2 GB RAM (4 GB for best performance)
Disk Space:
1 GB hard disk space
Operating Systems:
Windows 2000, Server 2003
Platform Support:
Full Specifications: Windows
Contact Us:
For sales or general inquiries call:
U.S. and Canada: +1 866 681 3435
Europe: 00800 55 11 55 11
Asia Pacific: find an office near you
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Flexible licensing, affordable prices, and free support and maintenance for the first year—perfect for your mid-size company.
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Key Features
Planning for Mid-Sized Companies
Many mid-sized organizations view budgeting as a necessary evil. Time-consuming, costly, multilayered, and complex, the budgeting process is prone to errors and often disconnected from corporate strategy. However, when executed correctly, budgeting is a critical step in planning and controlling day-to-day operations.
Designed for mid-sized organizations, BusinessObjects Edge Planning provides a low cost, easy to use, and quick implementation for growing companies to adopt more sophisticated budgeting and planning tools. BusinessObjects Edge Planning reduces planning cycle time, increases reporting accuracy, and improves transparency across your organization. The solution is easily accessible through online and offline options, letting you foster bottom-up and top-down collaboration, ensure organizational buy-in, and drive accountability.
Powerful Access to Live Data
BusinessObjects Edge Planning gives you the power and flexibility you need to make confident business decisions-decisions based on the most up-to-date and accurate data available from every corner of your business. You can easily share this information with thousands of employees across your company. Embedded reporting allows real-time views of your plan or forecast, and you can deliver reports over the web, in PDF, or live within Microsoft Excel.
Unlike static, unmanaged spreadsheets, the data that BusinessObjects Edge Planning presents is always managed, current, and secure. Your key decision-makers easily monitor areas of importance and see at a glance which ones are performing as planned and which ones require attention. With the ability to drill down into the details of your data, you gain a better understanding of underlying business issues and root causes of any given result.
A Tailored Solution
BusinessObjects Edge Planning provides the foundation for a complete set of tailored planning applications, supporting specialized process, reporting, and industry requirements. Especially relevant to mid-sized organizations, these prebuilt packages reduce implementation cost and time by offering integrated and customized planning based on best practices.
Additional applications from Business Objects include:
- Industry solutions tailored for healthcare, banking, insurance, retail, hospitality, and leisure
- Strategic planning
- Payroll planning
- Capital planning
- Forecasting
- Consolidations
- Productivity management
- Scorecarding
- Sales planning
Customer Spotlight
As a tertiary medical facility and the only trauma center serving western and central Kentucky, University of Louisville Hospital offers a broad range of specialties—everything from stroke management and high-risk obstetrics to neurosurgery, cancer care, and advanced diagnostic imaging. As a result, the hospital has numerous departments, each with its own budget.
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