Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting solutions
Montage offers a range of solutions that tailor to the particular needs of the organisation, but by far and away our greatest strength in this area is our domain expertise, with three of our senior consultants having a strong financial background, with chartered qualifications and backgrounds as finance managers in their own right. This understanding of the budgeting and forecasting function, in conjunction with innovative technology, allows us to bring best-of-breed solutions that scale and completely fit the requirement of each organisation.
Our technology solution offerings include:
- Real Time budgeting and forecasting utilising the latest features of Microsoft Excel
- PerformancePoint - performance management solutions
- High end skills in the leading budgeting/forecasting BI toolsets
- Visualisation technologies that support budgeting/forecasting process – YellowFin and Tableau
- Bespoke application development to deliver highly tailored budgeting/forecasting solutions
Budgeting and forecasting solutions that centre on Microsoft Excel based technologies, either directly or through the performance management frameworks of PerformancePoint, offer an ideal balance between powerful scenario testing features, a heavily utilised and understood toolset and seamless integration back to the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack.
Key features of PerformancePoint for Budgeting and Forecasting include:
- Build, modify, and maintain without coding - The user-friendly design and wizards enable users to create plans, budgets, and other business documents without the need for programming.
- Flexibility - Create plans and budgets, and test different scenarios and models
- Single view of business - Easily integrate information from multiple data sources
- Collaborative environment - Integration with Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and SharePoint makes it easy for users to collaborate when planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Montage provides real differentiation in leadership and experience around the budgeting/forecasting process. We firmly believe that success in budgeting and forecasting is not a technology or specific solution question, rather it is experience and application. In particular we assist organisations to extend their investment in Microsoft technologies to incorporate the entire Business Intelligence offerings, and we have a range of customers in the primary and health sectors that have achieved very high levels of sophistication with our solutions.
