Forecasting

Credible forecasting software that leads to successful business decisions

If your forecasting software is complicated by separate workbooks and complex lookup formulas, then you�re spending too much time organizing information. If you�re manually consolidating spreadsheets or facing inaccuracies in budgeting and forecasting, you�re not reaching your business goals in a timely way. Applix TM1 forecasting software is the solution to your forecasting and budgeting needs, ranked top among major business intelligence vendors for better business decisions, goal achievement, fastest implementation time and faster, more accurate reporting by The OLAP
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With TM1 your recent historical information and forecasting plans are integrated into a single corporate budgeting, reporting and analysis application. You pull all data into one location to pose all your possible scenarios and see the results immediately and then publish as a report for review. Similarly, if you�re producing rolling forecasts you can include all the variances of your business, including any time frame.

Key Features:

Excel and Web interfaces - Perform analysis, view reports, and update data using either Excel or Web user interfaces
Flexible, real-time modeling to meet the demands of complex, rapidly-changing business. TM1 takes you beyond the two-dimensional "gridlock" of Excel into the multi-dimensional environment you need for forecasting. You enter your numbers, change them, and immediately see the changes to your budget and the possible impacts.
Storage of your forecast data against easily recognizable business metadata (product SKUs, account numbers, customer codes) in a controlled, easily managed interface. (Excel lacks that key metadata layer.)
Automatic logging of all changes to data, especially important with Sarbanes-Oxley and other laws of compliance, which demand audit trails.
A unified, single application to meet all of your business processes including budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis - ensures corporate alignment and one version of the truth.

Benefits:

Anticipate the swells and troughs of business, allowing for those corrections needed and condition the company for long-term strategic planning.
Elimination of the errors typically encountered when relying on linked spreadsheets for forecasting, planning and management tasks
More time on valuable analysis while improving business performance across your organization

Download the paper "The Next Generation of Forecasting: Performance Management and Rolling Forecasts" and learn about the elements and tools of rolling forecasting. Read the tips on dos and don�ts provided by a CFO and Senior Director for Planning and Decision Support.

View the webinar on demand "Dos and Don'ts of Using Rolling Forecasting."

Forecasting Software Components

Read what some of our customers have to say:

"With the TM1 forecasting software system, the CSAB team not only performs budgeting and monthly financial reporting, but also predicts the impact of changes in product sales mix (Snapple and Mott's) as well as forecasting the impact of changing business models and measures the value of introducing new products into the marketplace."

� Bill Primerano, CadburySchweppes Americas Beverages

Read the case study in Microsoft Global Evidence
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Learn more about TM1:

» Planning » Download datasheet "Forecasting with TM1"

» Budgeting » View Demos

» Consolidation » Request additional information / sales call

» Reporting & Analysis

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