Business Planning and Consolidation

Efficient business planning and consolidation for greater confidence and reliable results.

To consistently manage your company's performance, you need accurate, timely financial and operational data – so you can effectively plan, budget, forecast, analyze, and report. You also need the ability to seamlessly integrate corporate and departmental planning, intelligently model cost scenarios, and perform sensitivity analysis to determine operational budgets based on strategic plans and assumptions. Finally, you need a way to ensure a fully documented audit trail and compliance with strict guidelines for consolidating and reporting company information internally and externally.


Full Planning Capabilities and Complete Financial Management

With Business Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as complete consolidation and reporting is available through a single application and user interface. You can benefit from:

  • Improved decision making - Risk-adjusted planning enables a greater understanding of the probability a situation may occur so corrective action can be taken.
  • Reduced cycle time - Finance and line-of-business managers can collaborate in a unified landscape, streamlining the process of creating and approving plans and budgets.
  • Minimized business and compliance risk - Transparent financial data and a single version of the truth enable fast, accurate management and statutory reporting.
  • Streamlined collaboration - Effective use of prepackaged business process flows and self-service flows reduces time modifying common business processes.
  • Increased user productivity - An intuitive interface and familiar office tools help workers make the most of their time.

Business Planning and Consolidation is a robust planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your budgeting, planning, consolidation, and reporting requirements. It supports the full array of top-down and bottom-up financial and operational planning needs as well as consolidation processes necessary to ensure the smoothest, most timely financial close possible – all through a single application. As a result, you can gain the confidence to meet increasingly stringent regulations and reporting requirements across the globe.

Customer Spotlight

KeyCorp

Business Objects offers a robust, cost-effective solution that enables KeyCorp to streamline its planning processes, reduce TCO, and provide more actionable data for greater accountability.

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Simmons & Simmons

Simmons & Simmons is a leading international law firm with over 2,000 people and 21 offices located in major business and financial centers throughout Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. The firm is one of the top 10 in the United Kingdom by turnover, and acts for around 50 of the FTSE 100 companies.

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Thrivent Financial

Thrivent Financial for Lutherans is a Fortune 500 financial services membership organization helping nearly 3 million members achieve their financial goals and give back to their communities. Thrivent Financial and its affiliates offer a wide range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, mutual funds, disability income insurance, bank products, and more.

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