In this blog, I am covering the latest trends in the business performance management (BPM) market. BPM solutions in this context include software applications for business management-related reporting including consolidated results, all aspects of planning (strategic, operational, driver based, zero based budgeting, etc.) and forecasting.
Power BI is the leading analytics platform – with the right approach it can be turned into an extremely versatile and powerful platform for Planning, Forecasting and Write back. Currently there are 2 main types of planning solutions in Power BI:
Visuals connected to a central model via web service
Data entry, planning and Wrte-back are key aspects of the performance management process not covered out of the box in Power BI. Acterys as developed to address that by offering a comprehensive ecosystem for enterprise grade business modelling, planning and consolidation that seamlessly integrates with the market leading data discovery solution Power BI and Excel/Excel Online.
In this blog we cover how you can realize a rolling forecast with Power BI (this approach works equally with Excel Pivot Tables). A rolling forecasts is a widely used concept for financial analysts that shows actual data until a cut off date and after that future assumptions like budget or forecast values. It looks something like this:
Cost Saving and Process Efficiencies for Planning & Analytics Through Platform Unification For over 20 years the Acterys founders have been very closely involved in
I have seen a lot of change in the Financial Planning & Analytics (FP&A) space over the last 20 year but one thing was constant: it’s not cheap.
I just came back from a conference where I got first hand proof when asking about the required investment for specialized FP&A software. The answers I got from some of the now listed vendors (or backed by heavy VC investments – investors that likely want to see quick returns…) were in the range of $80k+ for software and then typically twice that
Online Analytical Processing (or OLAP) is an important concept in the analytics and planning space that was introduced by solutions like Planning Analytics (TM1), Jedox, Infor Alea and others. In this article we cover a comparison between different approaches.
In this article I will cover a few helpful tips & tricks to improve your financial reporting and planning with Excel. In more than 20 years in the BI industry I still have yet to see a more versatile solution. All of us are still likely only using a fraction of what this tool can do and often -particular with all the game changing features added in the last few years- not up to its current capabilities.
