SPF Plus Solution Overview
SPF Plus
SPF Plus offers the ultimate solution for collaborative, real-time business intelligence, bringing ease, speed and flexibility to enterprise budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting and analysis, whether your company requires a simple web-based reporting solution, or complex analyses of sales forecasts, customer profitability or balanced scorecard.
Reporting and Analysis
Reporting and Analysis offers featurerich, high-performance enterprise OLAP reporting and analysis. This module provides power and flexibility by automating and simplifying typical processes to generate quantum gains in productivity.
- Fully web-enabled or
- Unrivaled, intuitive Excel client
- Standard report templates or
- User defined report layouts
- Drill-down, roll-up, drill-through
- “Traffic lighting”
- Conditional formatting
- Suppress zero values
- Filters, ranking
- Graph/charts (2D, 3D)
- Reporting including:
- Automated report production
- Easy batch reporting
Planning and Forecasting
Planning and Forecasting provides an intuitive environment and powerful functionality allowing clear and complete planning, without the pain usually associated with the process.
- Top-down revisions in real time
- Bottom-up planning
- User-defined trending methods
- Immediate “what if” scenarios
- Fully web-enabled
- Centralised or decentralised
- Multiple versions
- Audit trail, read-only, read-write or no access for enterprise security and data integrity
- Customisable
- Workflow, alerts and notifications
- Calculation engine to model assumptions, allocations, KPI calcs etc
Applix TM1 OLAP Server
Powered by Applix’s TM1, which is profoundly superior in its design to other OLAP database technologies. Described in The OLAP Report as “unusually efficient”, TM1’s unique algorithms provide the only true RAMbased, real-time (calc on-the-fly) multidimensional OLAP engine, thus offering affordable enterprise scalability and performance. TM1’s TurboIntegrator ETL (extraction, transformation, load) tool provides data loads, metadata management, and other tasks directly with underlying transactional systems like your data warehouse, SAP, Oracle, etc.
Applix TM1 has earned the passionate loyalty of 70% of Fortune 50 companies and 50% of Fortune 500 companies.
With a low total cost of ownership, TM1 requires less hardware, IT involvement, consulting, training and maintenance than other solutions. In fact, per a recent independent customer survey, 82% of our customers roll out TM1 applications in less than six months and at half the cost of the industry standard.
- Management reporting and consolidations
- Budgeting forecasting and planning
- Sales forecasting and analysis
- Customer and product profitability analysis
- KPI’s
- Statutory reporting
- Foreign currency translations
- Balanced score card
- “What if” and scenario based analysis
- Allocations
- Activity based costing
- Variance analysis and exception reporting
- Web publishing
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