arcplan Edge^® is a robust, budgeting, planning, and forecasting (BP&F) solution for organizations seeking to streamline processes and shorten budgeting cycles. arcplan Edge offers an intuitive, familiar interface in Excel for people responsible for entering data regarding budgets and plans, while automating the typically time and labor intensive consolidation process through web based reporting, scorecarding, and process visibility. 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.

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 assure budgets are completed to expectations and with no surprises.

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. Click here for more on budgeting and planning. 

Streamline data input: Not only are standard spread functions available within arcplan Edge but budgets can 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. The “supporting details” functionality with arcplan Edge enables departmental managers to record the source information and commentary for their budget submissions, whether the details be in the form of line item calculations, their own explanations, documents or online services. arcplan Edge’s commentary capabilities allow qualitative information and notations to be added offering contextual details throughout the process.

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