Business Intelligence & Excel

Microsoft® Excel is the familiar software tool for budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting, and for understanding how business works at both the granular and summary levels in 21st century business.

When planners look at how they do their work, they are faced with stark choices:

Choice 1: In today's competitive, constricted environment, often involving fewer planning personnel, Choice 1 is unacceptable. Business as usual is not an option.

Choice 2 often involves a long deployment schedule and high cost, and sometimes simply fails.

Choice 3 is increasingly chosen by planners because of its substantial benefits:

• Continued use of the standard tool Excel to develop planning data in standard spreadsheets
• Planners live and breathe Excel, and think in its visual terms
• Automatic dynamic updating of the overall budget in development when anyone in any department makes a change, since all parties are sharing the same database

We at the York Group bring Choice 3 to our clients because of these benefits.

The York Group partners with leading-edge software vendors such as Jedox AG to provide solutions to customers.