Integrate long range models with budgets and forecasts

Alight Planning integrates long range plans and strategic thinking with operational budgets and forecasts. In the world of spreadsheets, varying plan structures make the process difficult at best, if not impossible. With Alight, integration is built into its very structure.

• Market planning — Spreadsheets typically incorporate models for revenues by product, region, channel and customer types across multiple workbooks with a disparate structures separate from expense and capital budgets. With Alight, it's seamless.
• Levels of detail vary between strategic plans and budgets: longer time horizons for strategic planning; different line item and modeling structures for each; and different rollups to financial statements. With Alight, you can roll back and forth between levels of detail.
• Accounting structures drive the budget process — revenue categories, cost centers, and natural class accounts. Accounting structures are at odds with long range plans based on activity drivers that have no accounting reference. As a consequence with spreadsheet planning, budgets and strategic models don't talk. Alight bridges the two structures for integrated and consistent planning.