Imagine the ease of use of spreadsheets with the performance of a relational database. Budgeting has never been this simple or this complete. In what may be the best news for financial managers considering a new budgeting and planning solution, this solution costs far less than the typical Windows forms application or web-based tool, and can be implemented in far less time - typically a few weeks or months instead of months and years.

The HCGPrevision" budgeting system is extremely flexible. With HCGPrevision", budgets conform to the business practices of the company, rather than the business having to conform to the budgeting system. With HCGPrevision", budgets can based not only on financial numbers and history, but also by non-financial drivers including statistics and other key indicators. In fact, HCGPrevision" is not limited to budgeting financial data - the application is capable of creating budgets for any kind of data a business needs to track, even things like parts, machinery, or activities.

The underlying technical infrastructure combined with the budget-specific feature set of HCGPrevision" will help companies to:

	Remove manual processes and reduce budget cycle time
	Improve data integrity and control over the budget process
	Increase budget and planning relevance to the business, year-round
	Increase user buy-in and accountability

FEATURE LIST

	Provides budget managers complete control over planning processes
	"What-if" modeling
	Truly distributed, paperless budgeting process
	Versions and scenario analysis
	Modeling ability including fixed, variable, or zero-based budgeting
	Departmental template types that eliminate redundant formulations
	Flexible budgeting, rolling budgets by quarter, month, or week
	Trends and seasonality incorporating real-time actual and historical data
	Calculations, formulations, and formats are open for easy review and updating without need for vendor assistance
	User friendly wizards that allow users to change methodologies without editing formulas