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Productivity
- Leverage existing Excel skills – no learning curve, fast adoption, infinite possibilities
- Maximize end-user productivity with real-time consolidations self-service reporting, analytics, and click-to-transactions
- Fully automate time-consuming and error-prone tasks such as monthly rollovers, reconciliations, workflow tracking, consolidations, eliminations, journal entries, and more
- Use preconfigured or customized models; import existing Excel-based models
- Be free from validating inputs and data – this is automatically and rigorously monitored
- Work offline
- Set automatic email notifications and announcements
- Easily drill-down and roll-up within dashboards and reports
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Data Modeling
- Based on Microsoft® SQL Server® the industry's leading modeling database and Cube technology (Gartner)
- All corporate data (GL, HRIS, CRM, planning, spreadsheets, data warehouse, and more) can be loaded into an A3 Cube with the click of a button
- Centralized control of all planning data ensures consistency across the organization, standards, and policies
- Precisely model any rules and logic, such as tax, union, KPIs, drivers, and others
- Security built in and effortlessly applied
- Unlimited budgets, forecasts, scenarios, and what-ifs are supported by an infinite number of dimensions
- Models support complex rules, multi-step sequences, top-down, bottom-up, and middle-out planning methodologies
- Currency conversion and unlimited multi-currency support
- Detailed "below the line" itemization
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Visualization & Data Entry
- Excel-based analysis, reporting, and dashboard creation – use what you know
- Supports push-button drill down to transaction details
- Drill deeper to see external documents, such as invoices
- Build forecasts around granular details – line-item detail is as specific as you want it to be
- Graphical displays make data accessible: trends, seasonality, and other planning information is rapidly available to support better forecasts
- Includes multiple data-entry tools to save users time
- Formatting and colour rules provide visual cues that help users quickly focus on priorities
- Warnings and editing rules ensure company standards and policies are upheld
- Quickly allocate expenses to products or projects
- Lock down models to prevent user errors from breaking them
- Experience fast response times
- Work offline – at home, in an airplane or coffee shop
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Administration & Authoring
- A single, unified platform for all financial analysis applications ensures consistency and integrity
- Microsoft® SQL Server® provides a single, cloud-based source of data, ensuring confidence and consistency in forecasts and models
- Designed for Excel Power Users – minimal learning curve and powerful results
- Cubes, templates, and security are self-maintaining – no manual data management or technical reconciliations are required
- Unlimited possibilities for modeling and dashboard design
- Support for unlimited scenarios – budgets, rolling forecasts, what-ifs, long-term plans, and more
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Scalability & Security
- Only Excel skills are required – Excel Power users can on-board quickly
- Flexible layout and content design supports many applications, scenarios, and users
- Security provided to the Cube-cell level – individual users see and modify only what they are authorized to
- Access a detailed audit trail: who, when, and what
- Pricing scales from one user to thousands of users
- Flexible to add new projects, departments, and companies
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Delivery Options
- Software as a service (SaaS) preferred delivery model: no on-site servers, no IT
- On-premise deployment also available
Getting Started
Find out why our customers say that the A3 Modeling platform is the most powerful and flexible platform for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and consolidation in any size of organization.
