Host Analytics helps executives see the full implication of decisions - both risk and reward.

From our founding in 2000, our focus has been driving fact-based decisions based on sound financial justification. Our team of financial professionals understands your issues and how to apply our platform to the specifics of your business and your unique operational characteristics.  Among similar solutions, only the Host Analytics platform provides a set of decision calculation tools revealing to leaders the financial outcomes of functional decisions.

 

Optimal decisions require a broad view of internal information and external sources. Only Host Analytics delivers a complete Decision Platform to reveal the full implications of decisions, both the risks and the opportunities. The foundation is an industry-leading budgeting, planning, and consolidation suite. Users work with a familiar Excel-like interface and easily integrate data from virtually any internal source to create a “single point of truth” for organizational health and progress.  While this alone satisfi es important needs, for improved decision making, this is only the fi rst step. Host Analytics integrates fi ve novel components to extend visibility to action. Easy-to-use Smart Templates, Modeling, and Strategy Management tools let leaders visualize the impact of decisions to align goals and coordinate execution. To provide unprecedented rigor and certainty, Benchmarks and External Content allow decision makers to easily incorporate the universe of web-based informationfrom current rates to economic indicators to publicly available peer-organization benchmarks and more-to modify likely outcomes and evaluate decisions.

The Host CPM suite was built from the ground up to be fully integrated with each component of the CPM suite including:

Integrate the corporate Strategy into daily objectives with Host Analytics Scorecard

Infusing the strategic plan into everyday operations and allowing it to come alive are keys to an agile environment.  Host Analytics Scorecard allows organizations to provide ongoing, real-time visibility into performance.  MORE

• Host Analytics Scorecard allows continual monitoring and measurement of corporate goals and extends those goals throughout the organization. 
• Visibly encapsulates your long term plan to help you become a strategically managed company. 
• Allows owners and stakeholders of key measures to attach commentary and documents about the results to facilitate communication.

Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting with Host Analytics Budget

In today’s competitive business environment, companies of all sizes tell us their goal is to become more agile and fl exible. Executives need to plan based on an understanding of all the financial risks and returns of a decision. Host Analytics Budget is an integrated budgeting and planning providing the confidence and insight of agile business planning.  MORE

• A familiar spreadsheet interface combined with on-demand availability provides a fast-to-deploy, easy-to-use, easy-to-implement budgeting and planning solution.
• A robust modeling platform combined with top-down and bottom-up planning provides a better understanding of your business sensitivities.
• Specific functional modules for revenue planning, workforce planning, and capital planning.  

Drive your sales and revenue plan with Host Analytics Revenue Planning

Accurate forecasts are the cornerstone of any plan.  For most companies, the business plan is driven from the revenue forecast, from ordering supplies, planning operations, projecting inventories, determining headcount and approving capital expenditures.  Host Analytics Revenue Planning:

• Is flexible enough to meet the demands of any industry.
• Scales to thousands of cusotmers and products and is flexible enough to encapsulate the revenue/cost drivers of long term sales contracts.
• Involves all the required participants into the process and guarantees an accurate plan that drives sound decision making.  

Consolidation and Financial Reporting with Host Analytics Consolidator

The financial consolidation and reporting process is one of any company’s most critical processes. It is the framework for compliance and is the foundation for board reporting and bank lending. However consolidation using spreadsheets is time-consuming and terribly error prone.  Host Analytics Consolidator streamlines the closing process and gives executives confi dence in the numbers at a fraction of the cost of typical consolidation software solutions.  MORE

• Host Control Panel manages the potentially lethal combination of velocity and complexity found in the close process.
• Organization, validation and consolidation rules that are transparent and flexible to change, and replace complex, inflexible macros and scripts.