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As companies grow, their need for a dedicated planning tool also increases. Resource Planning Solutions is a registered partner with Alight Planning. Alight Planning is a multi-user planning and analysis software package that meets the needs of medium-sized businesses, as well as business units of Fortune 1000 companies, for strategic planning, revenue projections, flexible budgets and rolling forecasts.
While permitting medium-sized businesses complete flexibility with their entire planning processes, Alight also supports the business units of Fortune 1000 corporations by being compatible with corporate roll-up systems, such as Hyperion Planning or Cognos Planning. Alight Planning includes all the features and functionality expected of a robust financial planning and reporting application, including:
Integrated Financials Business unit finance staffs can create any complex format for financial statements, which include P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statements.
Multi-dimensional Dimensions are used for filtering reports, modeling and user security. Dimensional metadata may be imported and maintained from external databases.
Integration of Actuals Actual results may be imported from any financial or operational database at any level of detail with automatic reconciliation of underlying line item detail to GL totals. Actuals may also be linked and used to calculate different structures in the plan.
Reporting Users may access a broad variety of financial and operating reports. Creating reports is as easy as point-and-click without requiring IT support.
Multi-user Structures Alight Planning is a multiple user system with extensive user security and process controls. User privileges can be set by role, dimensions, reports and scenario.
Alight Planning also enables model builders and administrators to create complex driver-based planning models with intuitive and powerful tools that go beyond spreadsheet modeling, especially with respect to multi-dimensional models. Alight utilizes a Units/Rates/Amount architecture, along with object linking to facilitate the maintenance of complex models.
Alight Planning provides users with advanced analysis capabilities that incorporate numerous automated analysis tools for understanding activity driver impacts and financial results. Such tools let planners quickly identify the most important driver assumptions in a financial plan and perform other sophisticated analyses that can deliver actionable insights into the business.
Best practice financial planning processes include performing scenario analyses on a given plan to identify potential issues with the business plan. Alight Planning supports the generation of up to 100 alternate scenarios, all sharing the same underlying modeling structures, but each with its own input assumption for activity drivers, volumes, prices and costs. Call us today at 818.436.0781 to learn more and see a demo.
