Budgeting

Streamline planning and forecasting

Delete manual budgeting and forecasting processes. Empower managers across your business with self-service online reporting. With your time freed-up, you can focus on insightful analysis that will guide better decision making across your organization.

Model the impact of decisions - risks and rewards
Answer tough analysis requests quickly
Align stakeholders and drive budget ownership

Produce higher-value analysis as a business partner

Don’t compromise between powerful planning capabilities and ease of use. Leverage modeling capabilities that legacy tools don’t have like our simulation engine. Because of our familiar Excel interface managers already know how to use Host Analytics. There is no complicated budget software to install since our application is online.

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Simulation engine Run a detailed bottom’s-up and macro top-down model. Make adjustments at any organizational level. Create an unlimited number of what-if scenarios. Support driver based modeling. Easy enough for budget owners yet sophisticated enough for finance.

Rolling forecasts Improve decision making by planning continuously. We support driver-based planning and integrate actual results so you can more accurately model future scenarios.

Planning modules Easily expand your analysis with pre-built planning modules. These modules allow you to go-live faster and eliminate custom development costs. Because they are all part of one application you can connect the dots between operational decisions and financial outcomes.

Revenue planning Connect sales forecasts to your operational plan to get a clear view of demand and supply. Analyze revenue and cost drivers to make better decisions.

Initiatives planning Create, model, report and compare the impact of projects on the overall financial plan.

Workforce planning Model detailed employee costs in one secure place. Understand how different headcount scenarios affect the top and bottom line.

Capital planning Plan for new or existing capital assets. Include depreciation, transfers and maintenance and analyze their impact on your financial statements.

Balance sheet and cash flow planning Know how any financial or operational decision will flow through to your balance sheet and cash flow statements.

Strategy planning Align everyone to your corporate strategy with dashboards customized with each person individual and team goals. Balanced scorecards show company results in real-time so you can quickly respond to changes.

Reporting Produce professional quality financial statements and reports as well as ad-hoc reports. Analyze with powerful slice and dice capabilities. Understand variances with drill through to actuals. Modify reports yourself without having to call a consultant or IT.

Decision Hub Automatically leverage external data like currency rates for translations. Use benchmarks of peers, or economic indicators for more informed planning.

Dashboards and scorecards Our integrated dashboards and scorecards are easy to use by anyone. Managers can run their own reports and stay aligned to company performance with real-time dashboards and scorecards.

Excel interface With our familiar excel grid and formulas, managers can easily input their budget numbers into a template. Because it’s web-based managers can work from anywhere.

Low total cost of ownership All you need is a browser and internet connection. Our online application lowers the total cost of ownership compared to on-premise software. We’ve eliminated hardware, software and network infrastructure costs, as well as, labor costs to install, maintain and upgrade complex systems. We don’t charge for data storage unlike other vendors.

IT burden free Many companies choose Host Analytics because they don’t have an IT department or they have an overburdened IT department. Many IT leaders prefer us because we meet business requirements without adding to IT management headaches or costs.

Deploy fast Go-live much faster than with complex on-premise software because there is no hardware or software to install. Get up and running before your next budget cycle. Some companies go from signing a contract to go-live in just two weeks.

Enterprise trusted Enterprises trust Host Analytics because there are no cost overruns with our fixed fee activations and predictable subscription pricing. Further, we guarantee uptime and have a flawless security record over more than 10 years.

“Host Analytics allows us to understand our business more thoroughly and make better decisions about investments and resource allocations.”

“Our president is able to say with confidence that this is the real plan for what we’re going to do next year.”

“We’ve enabled better linkage between sales and marketing on the demand side and between manufacturing and logistics on the supply side, so they know what to make and where to m

“We’ve done a much better job on expense control since Host Analytics came along.”

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Budgeting

Streamline planning and forecasting

Produce higher-value analysis as a business partner

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