Automate Your Budgeting & Planning

arcplan Edge^® is a robust and centralized budgeting, planning, and forecasting (BP&F) solution for organizations of any size that seek to streamline processes and shorten budgeting cycles. Those responsible for entering budgeting and planning data will appreciate the intuitive Web user interface of arcplan Edge, which offers a wide range of planning and spreading functions. These capabilities shorten and improve the typically time- and labor-intensive consolidation process. Combined with arcplan Enterprise’s business intelligence capabilities, arcplan Edge empowers organizations to deploy a complete performance management solution – from budgeting and planning to analysis and reporting.

Adapt to your organization’s planning cycle: Many larger planning solutions require modifications to the organization’s BP&F process often introducing new, unwanted software and process changes. arcplan Edge offers the flexibility to adapt to the organization’s current methods with a software solution that is NOT disruptive to your organization’s approach. More on budgeting and planning here.

Embrace your Excel Users: With arcplan Edge, organizations can continue to use the successful aspects of the Excel-based BP&F process that exists today. The difference is that arcplan Edge enables corporate rules and IT governance to be introduced into the process to ensure that budgets are completed to expectations and with no surprises.

Streamline data input: Not only are standard spread functions available within arcplan Edge, but budgets can also be applied across multiple time periods, accounts and views as end-users expect. With the workflow capabilities of arcplan Edge, status is immediately updated as users save versions and submit plans. Additionally, automated alerts are triggered based on system interaction, prompting users for task completion at various milestones of the process.

Collaborate across the organization: The budget process often requires greater visibility into the details of the plan at a level not required by the corporation’s Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) methods. arcplan Edge’s "supporting details" functionality enables departmental managers to record source information and commentary for their budget submissions, whether the details are in the form of line item calculations, their own explanations, documents or online services. arcplan Edge’s commentary capabilities allow users to add qualitative information and notations, offering contextual details throughout the process.

Read more about arcplan Edge in our product brochure (PDF format).

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