1. You need to move from risk exposure where Excel is being used as a database application

• Recognise manual spreadsheet error risk
• Waste of valuable FTE resources
• Difficulty in sharing information
• Very large spreadsheets and no way to get beyond the summary information back to the detail
• Multiple Versions of the truth

2. You need to move from simple reporting tools and dependancy on your IT to self-sufficiency

• Long timeframe before new Reports created
• “New” reports required for every minor change, e.g. a report from company to departmental level
• Reports don’t pull data from multiple sources nor include manual keyed information
• Reports are static and incomplete
• Organisational structure changes require significant report updates
• You still use Excel or Access to ‘complete the picture’ to get around the limitations
• Reports are one-way. You can’t capture comments and feedback within the reports 

 3. You have a proprietary reporting tool with high annual maintenance and per-user costs

• Low value annual maintenance costing your budget
• High per-user licence costs restrict you sharing benefits
• You need to roll out to 100-10,000 users
• You can only report (no writeback of commentary or forecast)

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1.  You need to move from Excel - where unaudited linked spreadsheets calculate and consolidate your plans.

• No documentation
• No workflow
• No audit trail
• No security
• No centralised stored of information
• No automated consolidation
• No top down or spreading methodologies
• Reforecasting or cutting a new version takes days or weeks

 2. You need to move from a limited planning tool to a unified Enterprise-wide real-time planning approach

• There are multiple uncoordinated departmental approaches
• Your tool is relational
• High consulting to maintain
• No input validation
• No LDAP or Active Directory
• Not real time
• Not easy to use
• Not linked with your reporting and analysis

 3. You need to allow all users to contribute to the plan but cannot because of licence costs

• You have a multiple, complex and slow combination of systems – one planning, one standard reporting, another analysis
• You want to rationalise your architecture
• You want to apply best-practice in-memory readwrite OLAP technology