Forecasting with PowerOLAP®

 

Get Forecasts Based on Today’s Figures -- Anytime

You’re relied upon to ensure your company’s budget remains in line with actual performance.  Forecasting lets you see where you’re going and make adjustments – before the numbers end up out of line. But the quality of your forecasts depends entirely on the quality of the data at your fingertips.  Unfortunately, too often this data is far too outdated to allow for accurate forecasting.

 

With PowerOLAP® you have access to up-to-the-instant actuals reflective of current business conditions, combined with your own insightful formulas to project how your business will perform in the coming weeks and months.

 

There’s no need to wait until close-of-month (or any other time) to create forecasts. And there’s no need to rely on dead, historical data. Easily create forecasts based on today's figures -- any time you want them – with PowerOLAP®.

 

 

Benefits of Forecasting with PowerOLAP®

Forecast whenever you want

If it takes days or weeks to create forecasts, the opportunity to analyze the near-term business scenario will be lost. With PowerOLAP, forecasting happens whenever you want it.

 

Immediate data for actuals

Dynamically retrieved from transactional systems—which in turn serve as the basis for forecast figures--  there’s no more waiting for end-of-the-month, batched reports, and redundant re-keying to prepare Actuals, Budget and Forecast data in your reports.

 

Universal formula application

Create useful forecasts that reflect changing circumstances in the business environment. You decide the percentages, weighting and other metrics that affect your revised forecast figures and PowerOLAP® applies them across all areas, regions, products, etc. for fully automated calculations and instant, efficient forecasts.

 

Use the familiar Excel environment

PowerOLAP is simple to use and easy to learn. Excel spreadsheets are instantly made more powerful with automatically-provided data and the power to combine hundreds of spreadsheets into one.

 

Share instantly throughout the enterprise

Whether on the LAN or accessing forecast cubes remotely, PowerOLAP provides instant access and the certainty of working from the exact same version of the information across the enterprise.