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Strategic PlanningFull Spectrum Planning

Planning gurus make the point again and again: budgeting is not planning, and you can't do real planning with a budget tool.

What's needed is a flexible planning tool that lets you do a broad range of planning activities, either in one plan file or across plan files that talk to each other. We call it full spectrum planning.

That's why we built Alight Planning, and that's how our customers are using the software — for a full spectrum of planning activities including: budgeting, rolling forecasts, long range and strategic plans, capital spending, project planning, sales pipeline, bid and proposal, M&A analysis and more.

Below are use-case examples from a portfolio of Alight customers.

Click on the following web pages to learn more about specific use cases:

[ Budgeting & Reporting ] [ Rolling Forecasts ] [ Long Range Planning ] [ Scenario Analysis ]

 
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Customer Stories

Down East Enterprises:
Using Alight for Rolling Forecasts

"Alight allows us to plan differently, to plan continuously. The critical difference is that we're making much better decisions, and that's the bottom line."

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Pittsburgh Mercy:
Using Alight for Real Time Collaborative Planning

"The forecasts for each of the seven teams were updated and agreed to in real time — including tens of thousands of dollars in monthly performance improvements... Alight has let me implement a totally new culture for planning and analysis."

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Kaiser Permanente:
Using Alight for Long Range
Capital Planning

"The Alight implementation team got the job done on a fast track for half the price we were quoted from national firms... "

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Schoolwires:
Using Alight for Short & Long Range Planning

"I needed to move fast... so I actually built the Schoolwires Alight P&L model during the trial period before I bought the software!"

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Iroquois Gas
Transmission System:
Using Alight for Complex
Scenario Analysis

"With only 25 hours of Alight's help, together we built an extremely sophisticated model of our business..."

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Haws Corporation:
Using Alight for Budgets & Reporting

"It was easy getting into Alight. I connected with the Alight consultant. She had me up and rolling with only 20 hours of support."

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Open Learning Exchange:
Using Alight for Rapid Model Building

"The Alight modeling environment is amazing!... I'm motivated to keep going because I see results right away. The people who built Alight, they understand planning."

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Sales Team Live:
Using Alight to Analyze Strategy

"The smoothest part was the 'handoff'. With just two hours of online tutoring, I understood the financial model and was manipulating the underlying assumptions myself..."

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Use-case examples

We accomplish full spectrum planning through Alight's unique unit/rate/amount architecture which is the foundation for activity-based planning. The practical implementation is through Alight's financial modeling interface which let's you build models the way you think without rigid accounting structures.

The following are customer examples of how companies are using Alight Planning for a broad variety of planning use cases:

  • Down East Enterprises/Rolling Forecasts A multi-media publishing company, Down East used Alight to build a complex budget model covering a wide array of publications including books, magazines and online content. As the worsening national economy presented new challenges, they were able to rethink their budget model and resource allocations, and develop a new operating plan within a matter of days, rather than weeks or months.
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  • Kaiser Permanente/Capital Planning The nations largest HMO, Kaiser used Alight to evaluate spending hundreds of millions on replacing a legacy information systems and for reporting against the original plan. [ read the whole story ]
  • Schoolwires/Short & Long Range Planning A software company providing productivity solutions to the K-12 education market, Schoolwires built a short term forecasting and long term planning model in the same Alight file. [ read the whole story ]
  • Haws Corporation/Budgets & Reporting Haws, the original inventor and manufacturer of drinking fountains, uses Alight for traditional budgeting and financial reporting. They are now implementing rolling forecasts. [ read the whole story ]
  • Iroquois Gas Transmission/Capital Project Planning Operating an interstate natural gas pipeline system in New York and Connecticut, Iroquois uses Alight for modeling long range capital projects for presentation to bond rating agencies. [ read the whole story ]
  • Open Learning Exchange/Project Funding An umbrella non-profit organization that facilitates funding of education projects in third world countries, Open Learning Exchanges uses Alight for analyzing resources and allocating funding to in-country projects. [ read the whole story ]
  • Sales Team Live/Decision Analysis A software company providing industry data and training to real estate investors, Sales Team Live uses Alight for analyzing pricing, service bundling, and referral fees with resellers. [ read the whole story ]


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