Capability - Budgeting and Forecasting

Plan at the level of detail and speed that Technology requires.

Budgets, forecasts and what-if scenarios across financials, workforce, contracts and capex. Human and digital labor planned together. Seamlessly compare plan and actuals.

Customer Outcomes

Three months to two weeks

IT budget cycle cut from three months to two weeks, replacing a spreadsheet-based system.
Leading financial services group

14 countries, 600,000+ outlets

20+ models consolidated, forecasting cycle time down 30%, traceability up to 85%.
Global bottling agent

Plan financials, capital, contracts and workforce together, against live actuals.

Build your own templates

Planning templates are designed on a canvas, not coded. Your administrator builds templates and changes them directly, with no coding, developer or release cycle. Flexibility of Excel with the right governance and consolidation.

Four planning domains

Financials, capex, contracts and workforce in one place. Seamlessly aggregated.

Connected planning (xFP&A)

Bring integrated, driver-based budgeting together, converging cloud provider data, allocation drivers and volumes from your cost model. Bring headcount and labor capacity and demand into your workforce plan, all in a single connected, responsive view.

Driver-based planning

Drivers and volumes based on how your business runs, so budgets follow real consumption and not last year plus five percent.

Capex and depreciation

Automatically run out asset purchases, leveraging asset category, useful life, residual value, straight-line or declining balance methods, extended across fiscal years.

Multi-year contract spreading

Capture vendor contracts, with both cash and opex views. Renewal alerts for effective renegotiations, easy and expandable tagging and attribution for vendor reporting and service costing.

Workforce planning

Fully loaded labor cost build-up (including benefits, pension, etc.). Model hiring, attrition, bonuses and rate uplifts with ease. Balance labor supply and demand.

Budget, forecast and what-if scenarios

Unlimited scenarios containerized into three scenario types, so a what-if never pollutes live planning data. Merge actuals and plan easily for a reforecast (for example, 6 actuals plus 6 forecasts).

Rolling forecast

Maintain an accurate rolling forecast twelve to eighteen months ahead, refreshed monthly or quarterly against live actuals, with a vintage kept per cycle so what moved and why is always visible.

Plans against live actuals

Plan and actuals share one structure, for easy variance analysis and management reporting.

Straight from the report to the board

Export any report view to PowerPoint or PDF. An Excel add-in brings the same numbers into a workbook. Leverage built-in AI or your own AI via MCP to build analysis, artifacts and skills.

Variance commentary and predictive forecasting

Capture variance commentary, or use AI assistants to draft variance commentary and project forecasts against the approved numbers.

Questions it answers

What will technology cost next year, by service, and what is driving the change?
If headcount moves by thirty heads, what happens to fully loaded cost by quarter?
What did we think this would cost in H1, and what do we think now?
Which contracts renew next year, and what have we already committed?
What does this capital program do to depreciation over five years?
Can a cost center owner plan their own budget without spreadsheet ping pong?
What is the variance, and is it a risk to budget?
Which vendors are we placing more reliance on?
What is AI going to cost us?

Planning that reaches the parts of technology cost that general FP&A tools cannot see.

Planning covers all cost categories, including those that general FP&A tools struggle with: contracts, licenses and capex, infrastructure and network, end user technology, asset refresh cycles, projects, labor and services.

Solutions it serves

See your plan and your actuals on the same model.