To manage performance efficiently, you need an intuitive, unified solution for planning, budgeting, and consolidation. One that operates from a single version of financial and operational data, adheres to standard processes, and meets the unique needs of midsize companies. So you can streamline planning and generate statutory and management reports that give you the insight you need to reduce business risk – and instill confidence.

Efficient Planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, and Consolidation

With SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation, everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements – as well as complete consolidation and statutory and management reporting – is available through a single application and user interface. You can benefit from:

• Improved decision making – The application supports any planning and budgeting need across the entire company, enabling a greater understanding of how internal and external forces can affect plans – so you can take corrective action early.
• Reduced cycle time – Finance and line-of-business managers can collaborate in a unified landscape, streamlining the process of creating and approving plans and budgets.
• Minimized need for IT – Midsize companies don't have the luxury of leveraging vast IT resources to bring together data from multiple sources. By offering an integrated set of planning and budgeting tools and providing an intuitive, easy-to-deploy, and easy-to-use solution, you can align plans across the organization to drive optimum results.
• Increased user productivity – An intuitive interface and familiar office tools help workers make the most of their time.

SAP BusinessObjects Edge Planning and Consolidation is a complete planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your midsize company's planning, budgeting, consolidation, and reporting requirements – while making the most of your limited IT resources. It supports the full array of top-down and bottom-up financial and operational planning needs as well as consolidation processes necessary to ensure the smoothest, most timely financial close possible – all through a single application. As a result, you can gain the confidence to meet increasingly stringent regulations and reporting requirements across the globe.