A3 Modeling, the (un)CPM

Imagine the productivity and freedom of managing full-scale budgeting and forecasting directly from within Excel. The A3 Modeling platform provides exactly that – it's the natural step forward from your current spreadsheet environment. It puts your financial analysts in total control of budgeting, forecasting and dashboards, without leaving Microsoft® Excel.

By coupling Excel with a powerful backend database, A3 Modeling reduces the time, frustration, and errors of managing data. You're left with the pure power of Excel.

A3 Modeling is:

• Faster

  1. It's an environment you know – be instantly productive.
  2. Leverage your existing spreadsheets.
  3. Do it without the need for scarce IT resources or expensive consultants.

  With A3 Modeling, you – the financial analyst – can build an enterprise-scale budgeting or forecasting model in about a week, fully personalizing the design and content. You are autonomous and fully in control, using your experience and expertise as an Excel power-user.

  Benefits include:

  • Skills retained – retain your skills and quickly build model budgets, forecasts, and perform consolidations. Start with your existing spreadsheets and move quickly to A3 Modeling.
  • Independence – you can be instantly productive without the need for IT resources or consultants.
  • Speed and flexibility – use Excel for layout, presentation, and modeling, but not to store data. Your budgeting solution can be designed, loaded, and running in about a week. Add new reports and dashboards quickly and easily.
  • Personalization – capitalize on your team's existing spreadsheet models. Leverage existing spreadsheet models that capture the competitive nuances of your business.
  • Fast results – you'll achieve high productivity and minimal on-boarding thanks to the familiar Excel environment. Users will like it, increasing adoption and enterprise-wide use.

  With a minimal learning curve and a single, rapid installation, the transformation can begin immediately.

• Better

  1. We use the best spreadsheet/database technology, from Microsoft.
  2. The best technology enables superior, enterprise-class planning & analysis.
  3. It's designed by Excel users for Excel users.

  A3 Modeling combines the best enterprise-class technology from Microsoft®: Excel and SQL Server®. Ranked as the best in its class by Gartner, SQL Server® unifies the organization's data, consolidation, and security. The combination of Excel functionality with Cube technology gives financial analysts the power and flexibility of Excel while eliminating the problems of spreadsheets.

  Benefits include:

  • Unlimited flexibility – model your business without limitations.
  • Personalization – design reports and dashboards personalized to your end users' needs.
  • Accuracy – develop financial models that precisely and accurately reflect your organization and its uniqueness.
  • Full control – you have complete control to design the best budgets, forecasts, and reports to support the best decisions for every facet of the organization.

  By leveraging the best spreadsheet and database technologies, A3 Modeling enables unparalleled sophistication in budgeting and forecasting. It gives your Excel power users the ability to directly design and control your cube.

• Cheaper

  1. Our use of Microsoft technology reduces development costs.
  2. Users like it, it requires less training, and it results in higher adoption and user satisfaction.
  3. A3 Modeling deploys in half the time, at half the cost.

  A3 Modeling fits seamlessly into your existing spreadsheet environment. You'll experience a natural, incremental transition without the upheaval, cost, and delays of conventional CPM. That's why we call A3 Modeling the (un)CPM™.

  Benefits include:

  • Lower prices – by employing Microsoft® technologies, A3's development costs are lower than conventional and enterprise CPM solutions. We pass these savings to our customers in the form of great prices.
  • Faster development – the development and maintenance of models and reports is 50% faster (requiring 50% fewer resources) with A3 Modeling compared to conventional CPMs.

  A3 Modeling delivers a high impact, lowest cost solution that enables faster development and higher adoption.