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In order to compete effectively in today’s fast-changing business environment, managers throughout a company need to understand their business performance in real-time and be able to make rapid, well-informed decisions. Superior financial management – budgeting, forecasting, monthly and quarterly variance reporting, and what-if analysis – is absolutely key to a company’s success.
So why is it so hard for most companies to deliver superior financial management? Simply stated, they rely too heavily on spreadsheets. Spreadsheet-based financial processes are slow, error-prone, inherently non-collaborative, and inflexible. These problems have been obvious for decades, but many managers have simply never had a practical alternative. Going with another option—enterprise business intelligence (BI) and business performance management (BPM) software—has been too expensive, too time consuming, and far too complicated. It’s just too hard to implement, use, and maintain, and doesn’t deliver real value.
That’s why 80 percent of small businesses, midsized companies, and corporate divisions continue to settle for Excel-based planning and reporting—and pay a real price in terms of lost productivity poor financial visibility.
Finally -- Budgeting, Forecasting, and Reporting Made Easy
At long last, Adaptive Planning bridges this solution gap with a revolutionary new budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution that is optimized for midsize companies and corporate divisions. As the first and only pure software as a service (SaaS) solution available, Adaptive Planning delivers a powerful yet easy-to-use application without the exorbitant costs and lengthy installations associated with enterprise software.
Adaptive Planning is truly different from any other option. It’s refreshing. No new hardware, software, or IT support is required; deployment averages less than two weeks; and most users require less than an hour of training. It really is the easiest and most affordable solution available.
In a few short years since the company was founded, hundreds of companies and tens of thousands of users in over 80 countries worldwide have made the switch—moving beyond spreadsheets and automating their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes with Adaptive Planning.
Adaptive Planning is remarkably easy:
- Easy to "Test Drive." It takes just 30 seconds to sign up and access the on-demand application. Or, you can take advantage of one-click download and install for the on-site version.
- Easy to Afford. Free versions of entry-level software are available, and full-featured commercial versions start under $500. In either case, no new hardware or software is required.
- Easy to Implement. With the Get Started Wizard, you can create a company-specific plan in hours. Complete implementations average less than 2 weeks of consulting time.
- Easy to Use. Business user training takes under 1 hour, while power users require just 1 day of training. Graphical dashboards and an Excel-like user interface minimize the learning curve.
Driving Results and "No Brainer" ROI
The solution allows you to change the way you manage your business. In a matter of weeks, you can:
- Eliminate manual spreadsheet consolidation—saving months of time
- Improve plan accuracy and integrity by reducing errors due to broken links and formulas
- Deliver intuitive drag and drop reporting to finance and business managers
- Instantaneously view key business metrics on graphical dashboards
- Rapidly analyze changing business conditions and what-if scenarios
- Increase the strategic value of finance while fostering collaboration with business users
As a result, the ROI is tremendous—in the words of one of our customers, it’s a "no brainer." The cost savings that result from decreased time being spent on manual, inefficient activities—in both the finance organizations as well as business units—easily pay for the application several times over. What’s more, Adaptive Planning provides strategic value above and beyond these cost savings. Improved access to information results in better, more timely decision making, and leads to widespread cultural change by supporting ownership and accountability for results and driving increased financial acumen throughout an organization.
In short, Adaptive Planning can help you truly transform your key financial management processes.