Budget, forecast and model with Solver Planning from Rand Group
Cloud based budgeting and forecasting solutions from Solver to support your planning processes
A modern budgeting solution not only provides budgeting with process automation, time and cost benefits, but it also helps with financial planning to provide critical insights and competitive advantages for your organization.
With Solver you can manage budgets in one place, create detailed financial reports and forecasts with visual, graphical presentation. Solver’s advanced functionality combined with Rand Group’s expertise and years of experience working with data and planning software, brings the right solutions in place to ensure you have the insights you need to grow and evolve your business.
Create better budgets faster and easier than ever
Solver has a rich set of features that enables you to create better budgets faster. Start with one of Solver’s predefined budget templates or create your own to make it easier for each staff member to complete their budget. Take advantage of features such as automatic budget spreading to get accurate budgets with less manual number crunching. Work collaboratively with your team with automatic budgeting workflows. Create unlimited versions of your budgets so you can be confident that you have the best budget for the year.
Forecast financial outcomes to improve future periods
Solver harnesses the latest forecasting technology to provide you insights into future financial outcomes. Solver utilizes both proactive and adaptive financial planning to make sure that your organization is always prepared for the future. Solver’s proactive approach allows you to forecast potential market changes and develop the best strategies to maximize your profitability based on those changes. Solver’s reactive functionality allows you to analyze historical data to quickly spot trends so that you can adapt your strategy to either capitalize on opportunities or change direction in the event of a negative trend.
Foster effective workforce planning and scale resources
Prepare for the future with Solver’s planning features to scale resources as you grow. Planning ahead of time allows you to align your workforce with budgeting goals and sales targets for a firm organization alignment. Increase your bottom line with modern planning technology to drive accuracy, save time, and bridge gaps throughout your budgeting and planning processes. Solver’s planning solution promotes data-driven decisions and prepares you for changing demands in the market.
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Budgeting process best practices: how to budget during uncertainty
With the rise of economic uncertainty, it is imperative to take control of your data and operate with greater agility. Take advantage of the robust, modern budgeting and planning functionality in a Solver solution to support faster and better decisions. Transform your budgeting process to equip your team to handle uncertain situations with substantial confidence.
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Budgeting process best practices: how to budget during uncertainty
With the rise of economic uncertainty, it is imperative to take control of your data and operate with greater agility. Take advantage of the robust, modern budgeting and planning functionality in a Solver solution to support faster and better decisions. Transform your budgeting process to equip your team to handle uncertain situations with substantial confidence.
Solver is a comprehensive corporate performance management solution
Solver is a Corporate Performance Management solution that offers four different modules that provides a rich, comprehensive data and analytics solution for your organization: reporting, planning, dashboards, and data warehouse.
Reporting
Eliminate manual spreadsheets with a modern, automated reporting process encompassing a wide range of templates and user-defined reports available on demand with Solver’s easy to use and flexible report writer.
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Dashboards
Solver integrates tightly with Power BI, the gold standard solution for data visualizations. This enables you to have stunning visualizations and robust dashboards available at your fingertips to make smarter decisions.
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Data Warehouse
Reporting from disparate data sources can be a nightmare. With Solver Data Warehouse you can consolidate all of your operational and financial data in one place to ensure you have one version of the truth.
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Leverage cloud-based planning to optimize your distribution and logistics business
Distribution and logistics companies that have effective planning strategies increase overall organizational agility and unlock a powerful competitive advantage. Dynamics 365 includes planning capabilities to drive business growth and additional capabilities may be unlocked with a reporting and analytical solution like Solver.
What is Corporate Performance Management (CPM)?
A subset of business intelligence, CPM is the tracking and monitoring of a businesses’ overall performance based on key performance indicators (KPIs). CPM integrates business planning, sales, marketing, forecasting and budgeting for finance, human resources and operations to get a comprehensive view of the organization, rather than tracking goals in silos.
Solver integration with Dynamics 365
In January 2021, Solver and Microsoft announced an agreement to deliver Solver’s cloud-based planning solutions to Dynamics 365 customers more easily through QuickStart, a rapid deployment designed as an add-on for Dynamics 365 Business Central and Dynamics 365 Finance to enable the implementation of Solver in as little as one day.