Alight Planning - Driver-Based Planning & Analytics
   
 

Features

Integrated Financial Statements

Alight automatically incorporates structures and rollups for financial statements — complete P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and contribution analysis. Customizable for any
business or industry.

Profit & Loss
Balance Sheet
Cash Flow
Contribution Analysis

Bottoms Up Planning

With Alight you quickly create bottoms up financial plans with line item details and hierarchical rollups. Lots of flexibility with intuitive interfaces.

Unlimited line item detail
Easy to use worksheets
Your own time frame
Spread tools

Units Rate Amount Architecture

Alight's architecture: units * rate = amount. Get immediate reporting visibility and linking to underlying activity drivers and metrics using URA.

Integrate market planning
Sales planning
Headcount planning
Expenses planning
URA on reports

Complex Models with Linking

Build any kind of financial model 8 times faster than with spreadsheets. Without sacrificing power, Alight incorporates intuitive modeling tools that leave spreadsheets behind in speed, clarity and audit trails:

Object-based linking
Build sub-detail
Create formulas
Cross time period operations
Accumulation operations
Advanced operations
System notes

Key measures

Key measures is Alight's dashboard for managing inputs and viewing results. Track the most important variables in your business in a single pane. Make changes to inputs on-the-fly.

Change input assumptions
Display metrics
Handoff to users
Customize by worksheet

Universal Reporting

No formulas! Using Alight's point and click interface, create multiple planning and analysis reports in second. Use intelligent operators for totals, variances and other analyses.

Universal reports
Point and click report generation
Intelligent operators
Report column tools
Spread across columns

Analysis Tools

Gain insight into the numbers using Alight's powerful analysis tools and graphing.

Sensitivity analysis
Goal seek

Integrated Actuals

Import financial and operating data from any database at any level of detail with automatic reconciliation to GL totals. Model actuals data with linking different from plan.

Units, rate and amounts
Reconcile to the GL
Model actuals data
Create rolling forecasts
Compare actuals versus plan
Look back at actuals

Multiple Dimensions and Ad Hoc

Create multiple dimensions with hierarchies for identifying line items. Use dimensions to "slice and dice" the data with ad hoc reports, filter financial statements, and manage user security.

Multiple dimensions
Tag line items
Ad hoc analysis
Margin analysis
Filter financial statements
User security

Model Architecture Integration

Improve continuity in the planning cycle by integrating different planning models, actuals data and accounting structures seamlessly.

Strategic plan conversion
Product plan integration
Accounting structures

Multiple User

Use Alight to for multiple user planning with administrative control over user privileges, workgroup collaboration, and process controls for managing changes.

User roles
User sheet access
User report access
Workgroup architecture
Process controls
Consolidation and conflict resolution

     

Alight Planning Software

with multi-user, multi-dim and integrated actuals

Alight Planning is a multi-user system for executives, financial staff, and line managers who collaborate in developing financial plans and reviewing financial and operating results.

With Alight Planning, financial planning is fast and effective, allowing integration of strategic and product plans into the budget and forecasting cycle. Alight Planning cuts weeks off the budget cycle and promotes meaningful participation of staff in monthly reviews and rolling forecasts. Alight Planning is also the perfect vehicle for strategic plans, long range market planning and complex business case analysis.

In addition to multi-user security and file management, the Alight Planning feature set includes integrated financials, robust object-based modeling, multi-dimensional reporting and analysis plus integration of actuals with variance analysis.

Price Perpetual License: $8,000 for an Alight Planning Master module. See our Pricing Page for information about Alight Planning User. 20% per year for the Annual Service Package.

 

Alight News

BPM Partners names Alight "Best New Vendor" in 2008
"Alight has a deep set of functionality."

Ventana Research:
Alight Shines

"Alight's robust planning capabilities distinguish it from the pack."

Alight Planning 4.5 Debuts
Allows finance staff to easily integrate actuals. Powerful capabilities make Variance Analysis and Rolling Forecasts easier to implement.

Next Steps

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