arcplan Edge^® Empowers the Organization to Synchronize across Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting Processes. 

Gain control, accuracy and timeliness over your budgeting process. arcplan Edge offers multiple planning models and core functionality specific to the budgeting and planning cycle while integrating with arcplan’s robust Web-based reporting and analysis capabilities of arcplan Enterprise.

arcplan Edge allows an organziation to turn existing planning spreadsheets into centrally managed and controlled planning systems that are enterprise-scalable, easy to use and flexible enough to meet your most demanding business requirements. Designers use arcplan Edge rapid development framework to easily build, deploy and maintain planning applications. End-users enjoy the benefits of highly guided and easy to use activity in the familiar Microsoft Excel environment, allowing them to focus on the business process instead of the technology.

For more than 15 years, arcplan has been providing end-to-end Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting solutions for many global Fortune 500 companies. arcplan solutions range from industry specific, such as Oil Exploration CAPEX budgeting and allocation, to function-specific applications such as project management and standard financial budgeting and planning. The recent integration of LumenSoft Xcel BI+ has now enabled organizations to take advantage of arcplan’s of arcplan’s extensive experience across industries and enhance the planner's experience with centralized Excel based templates.

Extensive data integration enables comprehensive analytics: The reality is that corporate data often resides in many disparate sources. By relating actual transactions to the budgeting process or providing drill-through to detailed information in a unified interface the user sees the big picture without having to combine the results from different data analysis tools.

Familiar Excel environment: arcplan Edge allows for users to execute the budgeting and planning process directly with Microsoft Excel, providing a familiar interface and feature set for those most involved in the planning process. Because arcplan Edge is an Excel based product, budgets can be taken offline and reloaded with appropriate controls upon reconnecting to the network.

Support for Essbase (versions 6-11) and any ODBC compliant relational data source: arcplan Edge supports all versions of Essbase and all relational database platforms.