Arcplan Enterprise Application Designer 5.0.0.1566

Arcplan Enterprise – Moving Beyond Reports with Process-Driven Analytics.Real-time, Interactive Analytics for Improving Your Business Processes.Your processes – whether budgeting, planning and forecasting, financial controlling, enterprise risk management, or operational processes – need to be run efficiently to keep ahead of the competition. At the same time, interacting with these business processes is getting harder, as business intelligence – the means to understand these processes – is decoupled from the processes themselves. The result is that you have reports, but the data they contain may be out-of-date and you have no way to act on them.

arcplan Enterprise delivers real-time, interactive analytics that goes beyond just reports. With arcplan Enterprise, you embed analytics within your business processes, so that you have the intelligence to understand and change how you operate.

* Real-time access to multiple systems. UGS PLM Solutions – a product lifecycle management software developer – needed a way to improve the financial planning and forecasting process so that managers in the field did not have to wait 5-6 days after the monthly close process to obtain reports. arcplan Enterprise delivered real-time performance management on multiple systems, including SAP R/3 and Hyperion Essbase.

Too often, organizations put up with the delay associated with a data-centric approach to business intelligence: for example, field managers need to wait 5 days before getting end-of-month close reports, or finance executives wait 72 hours while a financial analyst uses 3 data-centric systems to answer 1 question. Too often, critical analysis simply isn't performed because finding the answer seems too hard or even impossible, even after the delay of a lengthy data-centric implementation project.

With arcplan Enterprise, you get business intelligence when you need it, cost-effectively. arcplan Enterprise's process-driven approach analyzes multiple ERP, OLAP and relational data systems and Web services simultaneously. With arcplan, you get answers and take action faster because you skip the costly implementation of a separate, complex analytical data store. When changes are made to your processes, arcplan adapts quickly to new data requirements, ensuring timely and cost-effective maintenance as well.

* Fast ROI for your BI project. IBM – the world's largest information technology company – needed to improve financial decision-making by providing a single point of access to many underlying data systems. IBM deployed an arcplan solution in 8 weeks, saving $2m in the first year with 766% return on investment.