Recognizing that effective planning and modeling requires direct involvement from front-line and line-of-business managers, EAP software takes a collaborative approach to enterprise-wide forecasting and budgeting. With EAP, everything you need to meet your bottom-up and top-down forecasting, budgeting and performance measurement requirements is available through a unified application and interface -- all driven by a single, centralized database.

Customers rely on EAP every day to accurately forecast and plan their business performance. With EAP, you can:
Unify your forecasting, modeling and planning processes through a single application and centralized database
Create rolling forecasts based on any time period you choose
Build collaborative, accurate forecasts by directly involving LOB and front-line managers in the forecasting process
Analyze historical data and actuals in relation to the forecast
Provide centralized templates that simplify the enterprise-wide forecasting process and foster collaboration
Engage in what-if scenario planning for any situation including realistic, optimistic, and pessimistic projections
Create and store unlimited versions of the forecast without impacting your actual source data
Factor trends, seasonality and "unforeseen" events such as government regulation and holidays into your forecasts
Attach detailed supporting documentation to your forecasts to effectively "tell the story behind the numbers"
Access and adjust your forecasts anywhere, anytime, directly over the Web or via Microsoft® Excel

EAP benefits our customers in the following ways:

Provides visibility into your future business performance
Breeds confidence in your forecasts, resulting in more readily accepted plans and budgets
Improves forecast accuracy by involving front-line & LOB managers
Creates realistic budgets based on actual and historical data
Accounts for unforeseen events that can impact your budget
Eliminates unwelcome "surprises" by helping you to more accurately plan and budget your business
Identifies and accounts for risk factors that can adversely impact your future performance
Negates common forecasting deterrents including "gaming" and "shadow planning", resulting in more realistic budgets
Resolves inter-departmental conflict through enterprise-wide collaboration; unifies the organization
Patented Microsoft® Excel integration providing a familiar, readily accepted environment that optimizes your existing process
Leverages unstructured data such as Office documents and email to effectively tell the story behind the numbers