Kepion Planning SolutionApplication Sheet

An Enterprise Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting Solution

Kepion Planning is a single integrated solution that not only uni�es and streamlines your planning, budgeting and forecasting process, but also lets your company continuously plan for the future & e�ectively take on new opportunities and risks.

Key Features:

• Simplified Web Interface

• Familiar Excel-like

Workspace

• Realize Immediate Impact

from Single Change

• Flexible Business Modeling &

Calculations

• Powerful Workflow &

Collaboration

• Full Audit Trail Tracking

• Enterprise Level Security

• Optimized Performance &

Scalability

Key Bene�ts:

• Ensure accuracy & reliability

of forecasts

• Cut budgeting & planning

cycles by weeks & months

• Increased response time to

changing conditions

• Allow easy collaboration

cross all departments

through simplified web

interface

• Leverage flexible modeling

capabilities to handle

multiple business function

• Align individual,

department and business

unit plans with company

objectives

E�ective Planning, Bugeting & Forecast

When faced with a daunting task of accurately planning and forecasting the upcoming revenue and operating performance, many companies o�en resort to disconnected spreadsheets or data environments as a solution. �is makes the planning process unreliable and ine�cient for �nance to manage. Business users spend more time collecting and consolidating than analyzing and planning, thus causing companies to miss business opportunities while incurring unnecessary resource costs.

Kepion Planning can help unify your data within existing spreadsheets into one simpli�ed solution. As a result, you can realize real-time impacts of the latest updates, plan continuously throughout the budget year and e�ectively integrate the budgeting process between �nance and business units.

Simplified View of Business through Familiar Excel-like Interface

Flexible Business Modeler with Powerful Configuration Capabilities

System Requirements:

• Windows Server® 2003 SP1,

Standard Edition, or later

• Microsoft Windows® XP

Professional SP2, or later

• Microsoft Internet Explorer®

8.0, or later

• Microsoft Silverlight™ 3.0, or

later

• Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008,

Enterprise Edition, or later

• Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008,

Analysis Server, or later

• Windows Installer 3.1, or later

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

• Microsoft Internet

Information Services 6.0

• ASP.NET 2.0

Powerful Web Excel-like Interface

Kepion Planning is powered by Microso� Silverlight Technology to bring rich functionalities of Excel to the web. Users will have a familiar spreadsheet workspace for them to e�ectively complete their tasks. Since all access is brought to the web, this enables Finance to connect to a wider user community and collaborate throughout the planning process.

Simpli�ed View of Your Business

Key information can be brought together from multiple data sources (internal & external) into a single easy-to-navigate view of your business. With a single vision of your corporate reality, you can be more responsive to make timely decisions, rather than questioning data de�nition and accuracy.

Flexible Business Modules without Coding

Kepion Planning provides a truly �exible platform that allows users to create simpli�ed planning and budgeting models without the need for programming. You can also modify or revise the underlying business logic & principles quickly and easily, to best handle the complexity of your business.

Increased Reliability in Results

Companies can build and maintain server-side business rules and real-time calculations to unify planning functions together for increased accuracy in results. Full audit-trail tracking is enabled for users to quickly track changes made by each contributor.

Streamlined Work�ow Management

Kepion Planning streamlines the planning & budgeting process with straightforward roles & security setup, automated status updates & email noti�cations, custom data entry forms & reports and real time aggregation of updates to plans and results.

Fast Scalable Performance

Fully scalable enterprise solution that lets companies start with a small deployment before scaling to hundreds or thousands of users. �e unique scaling capabilities help companies maintain the high performance needed to e�ectively complete their tasks.

Aligned with Microsoft Investment

Built on the stability and enterprise-level security of Microso� SQL Server 2008 and Analysis Server. Users can also use Microso� O�ce PerformancePoint Server to conduct monitoring and analytics on their key business drivers.

Top Highlights of Kepion Planning

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