Gauge the Future with Confidence

CONTROL® promotes dynamic corporate performance management. It lets you seamlessly and collaboratively move from target setting, to supporting plans, to monitoring and analyzing plan vs. actual, to what-if scenarios, to projecting future performance, and seeding strategy — all while capitalizing on the same common meta-data and data repository, the same security model, and the same interface.

With CONTROL as your forecasting software, you never lose sight of interdependencies and never compromise integrity. You have the transparency to effectively and continually evaluate the measures, adapt to changing landscapes, address constant challenges and support strategy execution — all in real-time.

CONTROL gives you the ability to integrate data from myriad source systems and the flexibility to iteratively and infinitely manipulate the data so you can confidently predict future performance. It includes a powerful Data Transformation Wizard that makes it a snap to do complex operations across selections of data such as:

• Initializing a forecast scenario as a copy of a budget or other forecast scenario.
• Growing selected items by set percentage while locking others.
• Decreasing select drivers by constant percentage and spreading the results over a certain number of months.
• Repeating seasonal patterns and applying pre-built methods including average, trend, polynomial & exponential fit, single, double & triple exponential smoothing to the data.

Moreover, CONTROL provides an optional embedded ForecastPro™ extension for custom holt-winters, multiple box Jenkins and smoothing algorithms. It also features an expert wizard that automatically analyzes the data and selects the most appropriate forecasting method.

Better yet, CONTROL has built-in data entry short cut commands, allowing you to use all standard Excel methods and functions for manual manipulation and modification of data such as copy/paste, drag and Excels’ formula logic. Time dimensions are completely user defined and allow for any time period required, up to and including minutes. In addition, users can easily select and filter views of data to include or exclude any of the available time periods.

CONTROL enables an unlimited number of scenarios to be associated with different roll-up hierarchies and calculation logic, allowing budgets and forecasts to be entered at different levels of detail. Forecasts can be updated on any frequency desired: daily, weekly, monthly or ad-hoc. In addition, the impact of re-organizations or acquisitions can easily be compared to the original organization structure, and “point-in-time” snapshots can be stored and compared at a later time.

When it comes to business performance management, it has never been so easy or straightforward to instill a culture of rolling forecasts and continuous planning.

Key forecasting features include:

• Limitless number of easily comparable forecast scenarios
• Forecasts may be in greater or lesser detail than budget or actual
• Built-in sophisticated time-series forecasting capabilities
• Automatic integration with historical actual data
• Capabilities for forecasting based on standardized or historical patterns
• Time activated data access to lock changes
• Integrated workflow and commenting to coordinate contributions from multiple users
• Ability to build supporting multi-dimensional or spreadsheet models for forecast components

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