If you're manually consolidating spreadsheets or facing inaccuracies in budgeting and forecasting, you're not reaching your business goals in a timely way. If your forecasting software is complicated by separate workbooks and complex lookup formulas, then you're spending too much time organizing information. There is a better way.

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Involve More People in Your Forecasting Process
Automate Complex Calculations
Keep It Fresh
Products

Involve More People in Your Forecasting Process
The quality and accuracy of a final budget is directly related to the involvement of more people at all levels of the organization. Collaborative features such as a centralized bulletin board for sharing goals, objectives, deadlines and instructions save time and align efforts. Security assignments are essential to limiting access to only those authorized to view it.

Automate Complex Calculations
Allocating overhead expenses and cost pools to the right departments and accounts can be a complex and intricate exercise, particularly when done in spreadsheets. The ability to define and modify your business calculations in a central location, and use them across the organization saves time and reduces errors.

Keep It Fresh
Organizations that maintain a rolling forecast - preparing forecasts on a regular basis, typically quarterly - reduce their annual budget cycle by a median of 25 days, according to BPM Magazine. In addition, the quality of the results improves dramatically because the information is kept fresh and is based on current market conditions.

Products
Brittenford Systems offers a choice of Products that help you involve the right people, automate complex calculations, maintain rolling forecasts, and more.

Microsoft Forecaster
Microsoft Forecaster is a web-based budgeting solution that integrates tightly with the Microsoft Dynamics financial management suite.

Applix TM1
TM1 is an award-winning application that addresses a broad range of performance management needs, offering superior Excel integration and web publishing.

Brittenford Perform
Brittenford Perform is a unified, highly configurable solution that delivers the following core functionality from a single application interface and database budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis, dashboards, and EVM controls.