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P&G Case Study

Simplicity Enables Strategy Focused Financial Planning & Budgeting

The familiar spreadsheet interface allows Procter & Gamble to use Host Budget to consolidate inputs from more than 3000 users around the world into a single planning and budgeting model.

Whether you’re Proctor & Gamble or building your own Fortune 100 Company:

  • You can’t afford to rely on antiquated ways of planning and budgeting.
  • Missteps are magnified, variances are vilified,
  • Blown budgets lead to stock takedowns and brutal board meetings.

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Your teams and departments must internalize your company strategy through planning and budgeting.

Simplicity is the key to getting everyone to internalize your strategy. A familiar spreadsheet interface with on-demand availability combine for a fast to deploy, easy to use and easy to adopt budgeting and planning software.  Flexibility and control is the way to empower everyone who does your planning and budgeting.

Host Budget is a planning and budgeting solution that companies like Proctor & Gamble and Pitney Bowes rely on to insure their strategies are implemented and budgeted for throughout their organizations. Powerful online analytical processing (OLAP), rolling plans and forecasts, user task level workflow controls, and integration are just some of the features that make Host Budget the budgeting and planning solution for today’s leading corporations.

If you get it right, if you are successful in aligning your entire organization behind your strategic goals, the rewards are great. Great products and services, and the satisfaction of knowing you’ve steered your company through one of the most challenging times in history. Host Budget insures that your strategy is first and foremost in the minds of the people that plan, budget and make the daily decisions that will determine if your company is a Fortune 100 or an unfortunate 1.

Key Features & Benefits

Simplicity = Adoption = Alignment
Simple Design Insures Everyone is Strategically Aligned
Spreadsheet Design. Budget templates allows for direct cell editing and linking looks and works just like a spreadsheet and can be used “live” or “offline” and uploaded for later use.

Database Driven Templates. With the flexibility of Excel comes risk, but Host mitigates that risk by providing templates driven from a database.  No longer are formulas and values trapped in the cell metaphor.  All formulas and values are stored in an OLAP database for dynamic reporting with database driven calculations.

On-Demand Multi-Tenant SaaS Means No Software to Install or Maintain
Implementation Timeframe. Deploy only one application to everyone. You can be up-and-running in record time.

Upgrade Frequency. Multiple transparent upgrades are released each year so everyone receives the upgraded application simultaneously and has access to the newest features.

Configuration Not Customization. Host Budget is configured not customized, avoiding the old, rigid, risky, and expensive software development methods. This results in a low-cost, low-maintenance planning and budgeting solution which adapts as your business evolves.

All for One Integration. The integration between Host Scorecard and Host Budget allows you to do your strategic plan and encapsulate it in Host Scorecard and then link it to the plan in Host Budget.

Control + Flexibility = Faster, More Accurate Plans and Budgets
Innovation Leads to Clear and Insightful Views of Your Business
Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). Allows you to adjust and present information to see complex relationships and insights that lead to actionable decisions.

Robust Business Modeling Software.  Allows you to model the business based on high level imperatives, global adjustments and model your business based on discrete driver based formulas.

Integrated Business Planning through Project Budgeting.  Allow you to manage a portfolio of projects in Host Budget and optimize your project selection based on the current economic conditions.  When you have more projects than you have funding, the discretionary initiative feature allows you to manage the projects year over year until without losing track of them.

Report Writing and Ad-hoc Queries. Easily generate reports on-the-fly which can be organized and stored together in different formats for easy access and printing.

Integration Adapters and True Multi-tenant SaaS. Easily integrate with your organization’s general ledger, CRM, ERP and other systems. Easily import information from Excel and other applications.

Visibility Provides Confidence the Correct Inputs Are Coming from the Right People
Process Visibility. Through Host Budget "Control Panel" you can see who has made changes and when they were made. A graphical submission status screen shows you who has the budget in addition to the current stage of the budget.

Process Security. Enforce what data can be changed and by whom. Create security rules for specific users as well as budget/forecast locking.

Closer to the Source Budgeting Inputs. Extend the planning process to managers and staff closer to the tasks resulting in more accurate budgets.

Flexibility Means No Wasted Time Making Your Business Conform to the System

Top Down, Middle Out and Bottom Up Budgeting. Provides a better understanding of sensitivities to your business.  Top down plans are typically set at the executive level by "war gaming" potential outcomes until the plans feel right.  Once the "Top Down Plans" are set they must be converted to executable plans by working from the middle out and the bottom up.  Host Budget supports the integration of all three methods of planning for greater insight into your business.
   Rolling or Static Budgeting Options. Review the current budget status and plan for the future based on “actual vs. planned” and current forecast projections.

Start anywhere in the CPM cycle. Decide to plan and budget before or after other CPM functions. You are not locked into one way or the other.
  

To be strategic, planning and budgeting must be an enterprise-wide initiative. Host Budget is an integrated budgeting and planning solution that provides you with the confidence and insight that comes from an integrated system that is powerful and simple.

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