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Intelligent Budgeting Framework

by Xebia USA Inc

Description

Budgeting is often a lengthy, tiring and demanding process for organizations. As the digital economy demands more than just traditional spreadsheets, the current market expectations from E-budgeting software solutions is considerably high. Finance professionals are under constant pressure to provide accurate forecasts which requires effective planning to seamlessly connect the entire organization. Planning, budgeting, and forecasting solutions should align across the enterprise so that organizations can develop agile forecasts for all lines of business and respond faster and more effectively to change.

Key business impacts:

  • Improved organization efficiency & productivity
  • Significant reduction in total turnaround time for the budget planning process
  • Improved financial and strategic decision making by real time financial facts and forecasts
  • Improved budget accuracy by collaboration, predictive forecasts and a powerful what-if calculation engine
  • Collaboration and alignment between all key stakeholders towards the organization's budget

Features

Xebia's Intelligent Budgeting Framework (IBF) is an enterprise-wide budgeting platform focusing on making the forecasting process more agile, dynamic & intelligent with the help of the following key features.

Configuration to set you up on Day 1

  • Import, integrate or simply set up the relevant budget parameters (Departments, Categories, GL Accounts, Users, Actuals etc) to kick start your planning process
  • Configure a dynamic planning cycle for each department, user role or project to get the planning and forecasting spot on

Tailored planning for each budget category

  • Configure the data capture requirements for each GL Account, which provides the capability to capture exactly what is needed for various budget categories under CAPEX, OPEX, Revenue or HR
  • Example categories are specialized workforce planning, travel expenses, subscriptions, events and public relations

What-If Analysis, Re-forecasting & Scenarios

  • What-If analysis gives relevant stakeholders the capability to execute and analyze the overall impact of certain changes and visualize the impact at run time
  • All scenario executions are versioned for Finance to evert back to any scenario and finalize one of them as the budget

Power of Data & Analytics

  • CXO, Department Heads, Project Managers or the Finance team can view historical information in a format they can quickly understand quickly to predict the right future and help ensure similar mistakes of the past are not repeated

*A dynamic report framework provides the ability to generate a workbook of the entire budget - including cash balance sheet, abstract and other budget reports by department or categories

Future ready

  • Integrates with AWS to predict budget and assist the key stakeholders with predictions
  • The data structure is created in a way to seamlessly integrate with your core systems to have one source of truth

Release notes

  • Modified Screenshots
  • Modified deployment instructions
  • Modified Plugins
  • Modified sql scripts
  • Modified application package

Added & Modified new features in the application:

  • Compatible with MYSQL database
  • Modified budget configuration setup
  • Modified "What-if" Analysis & Scenarios
  • Added new feature of initiating budget based various approach type & frequency
  • Modified analytics power of budget
  • Modified dynamic report generation
Version history (1)

2.0.0

Appcino's Intelligent Budgeting Framework (IBF) is an enterprise-wide budgeting platform focusing on making the forecasting process more agile, dynamic & intelligent with the help of the following key features.

Configuration to set you up Day One

  • Import, Integrate or simply set up the relevant budget parameters (Departments, Categories, GL Accounts, Users, Actuals etc) to kick start your planning process
  • Configure a dynamic planning cycle for each department, user role or project to get the planning & forecasting spot on

Tailored planning for each budget category

  • Configure the data capture requirements for each GL Account, which means capability to capture exactly what is needed for various budget categories under CAPEX, OPEX, Revenue or HR
  • Example - specialized workforce planning, travel expenses, subscriptions, events, public relations & all others

What-If Analysis, Re-forecasting & Scenarios

  • IBF understands that budget planning needs the power of running scenarios & What-if Analysis. What-If analysis gives relevant stakeholders the capability to execute & analyze the overall impact of certain changes & visualize the impact run time
  • All scenario executions are versioned for finance to revert back to any scenario & finalize one as the budget of the organization

Power of Data & Analytics

  • CXO, Department Heads, Project Managers or the Finance team can view historical information in a format they can understand quickly to predict the right future & help ensure similar mistakes of the past are not repeated
  • Dynamic report framework to generate a workbook of the entire budget - including Cash balance sheet, Abstract & all other budget reports by department, categories for custom report groups

Future ready

  • IBF is future ready - it integrates with AWS to predict budget & assist the key stakeholders with predictions
  • IBF data structure is laid down in a way to seamlessly integrate with your core systems to have one source of truth