The Only ORACLE 10g OLAP Option-based Solution
for Planning and Budgeting

For your Business Simulation / Budgeting and Planning / Rolling Forecasts /
Operational Reporting & On-Line Analysis

With a large experience in budgeting tools, ALLSHARE has designed Scenario/FI a budgeting software solution to reach the following goals :

A global integrated environment

Using a Dedicated Software Package enabling corporations to pilot the planning, budgeting and forecasting process from beginning to end.
Designing an easy-to-set-up and dedicated Financial Control environment that meets the specific needs of each corporation.
Enabling Managers to monitor and pilot Corporate Global Performance by controlling the planning and budgeting processes and to quickly and reliably evaluate the end results.

Ease of data-entry and modifications

Using state-of-the-art technology with numerous wizards to help controllers to customize their tools, screens menus, formulas…
Giving Financial Controllers a tool that enables them to evaluate and to measure the competitiveness, the profitability and the productivity of the corporate activities as defined by the corporation’s own set of rules.

Powerful calculation for modeling? analyses

Enabling Managers to optimize the relevance of the means chosen, the efficiency in the use of these means, and the effectiveness in obtaining the expected results.
Delivering an EIS tool for collecting, processing, on-line analyzing and reporting any and all economic and financial corporate data.

Workflow management

Accelerating the planning and budgeting process and streamlining the processing and validation procedures.
Giving managers the capabilities to follow up and control the whole process from the top of the budget structure to each budgeting entity.

Functional Benefits

• A versatile tool: Scénario/FI perfectly adapts to the Company’s business requirements in order to meet even the most specific needs of our customers
• Unlimited Version Management: Scénario/FI allows creating and managing as many budget versions as needed

• Rolling forecast Management (dedicated functions)

• An evolving tool: Because each end-user can upgrade and customize Scénario/FI, and this, without any need of recurring to programming or even calling out his/her IT department for help
• A user-friendly tool: Because using Scénario/FI is as simple and easy as using MS-Excel spreadsheets

Technical Benefits

A seamless integration with the ERP or the  Accounting Systems
Scénario/FI integrates with all of the market’s query tools (Business Objects, Cognos…)
Very short  implementation and appropriation time because Scénario/FI fits to the existing repository and needs no programming
A multidimensional database: Thanks to ORACLE 10g OLAP end-users can create multidimensional representations (called hypercubes) according to their own criteria in order to simulate various hypotheses
Scénario/FI is the only Business Process Management tool developed with ORACLE 10g OLAP

Planning & Budgeting

During the planning process, you need to be in full control of all the information available and have access to powerful and easy-to-use simulation and forecasting tools in order to answer to your different what-if scenarios.

Each of your activities follows some specific management rules.

You wish to

• Define specific calculation rules to each business line;
• Carry out analyses with different time-interval units : sometimes in days, in other cases in weeks, or in months, or in years ;
• Create different budget items according to their relevance to the activity.

We deliver

A MODELING TOOL FOR EACH OF YOUR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES REFLECTING YOUR OWN MANAGEMENT MODE

• You can define as many calculation models as needed, and choose their applicability by activity;
• You can adjust the granularity of you budget items to the indicators you need to define;
• You can add indicators that are specific to a given activity.  

Scenario/FI does not use any programming language. To set-up the management and simulation rules a wizard is always available to end-users to help them build these rules by point & click and drag & drop.

Scenario/FI also enables the simulation of various assumptions for a same budget. The scenarios, which manage all information in Scénario/FI, enable the management of as many simulations as needed. The number of scenarios managed is unlimited. This is also true for the creation of several versions of the budget (initial budget, post-arbitrage budget, final budget, forecasts, etc…)

You wish to

• Describe and model your budgetary structure;
• Immediately adapt your model to any sudden change of the organization;
• Modify your budget planning process after a new acquisition or subsidiarization;
• Make quick and efficient changes of your management model.   

We deliver

A SYSTEM DEDICATED TO THE BUDGETING AND PLANNING PROCESSES

Scenario/FI enables you to define as many sets of assumptions as you wish in order to:

• Follow-up your Actual from the accounting system, and compare it to your Budget in order to determine the variations.
• Perform a new reestimation every month and keep all revisions.

SCENARIOS THAT ARE AS MANY BUDGET VISIONS AS YOU WISH

Scenario/FI gives you powerful functions to manage these scenarios  :

• Scenario initialization functions from other scenarios for a given period;
• Automatic orders that copy the Actual Scenario to “reestimated budget” scenarios during the integration of the Actual ;  
• Scenarios calculated from other scenarios to measure the variations or a result rate of an objective.

OBTAINING IN REAL-TIME NUMEROUS BUDGET PLANNING PERIODS

Scenario/FI enables you to control past budget planning periods, in order to analyze the evolution of your business or financial indicators or to achieve a precise statistic analysis. You can also manage future budget planning periods, in order to develop a 5-year plan, for instance. The accuracy of the information can vary according to the periods.

MODELING THE INCOME AND VARIABLE COSTS DAILY, THE FIXED CHARGES MONTLY, AND THE PLANS ANNUALLY

With the ability to easily switch formats simply by zooming the data.

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