Extensive business intelligence systems are managing the current situation
in many companies, as regards enormous index numbers which contain information
about production progress and sales. For the management, a fast data analysis
is essential.

"It is not enough to live in the past alone". For example, within a quarter
meeting, distribution management is asked to forecast the planned sales to
production management in order to optimize the buying of raw materials and
for a better planning of machine utilization. In such cases, often gut
instinct is still responsible for planning.

To achieve flexibility and transparency in business, companies need to use
innovative budgeting and planning, next to the fully developed controlling
of the past. Because of processes becoming more and more complex as well as
fast-moving product cycles, enterprises do need adequate instruments which
are able to handle complex planning processes and may be flexibly adapted to
specific structures.

Budgeting-and-planning-instruments are able to support decision makers in
underpinning their gut instinct as concerns forecasted sales numbers or corporate
index progress.

By the introduction of own capital guidelines and the revision of the controlling
and transparency law (KonTraG), enterprises are more than ever demanded to introduce
a more accurate controlling by developing a larger information base.

A budgeting-and-planning-system should be able to simply collect planning data about
preferred planning methods (top-down, bottom-up and counter current). It should also
be in charge of an integrated reporting system to provide an integrated support of
the planning process. With the help of navigation technologies, the analysis and
presentation of every single planning step is very transparent, which supports the
user in gaining fast and flexible results.

The budgeting-and-planning-system should furthermore be in charge of an alert feature,
to inform decision makers early about expected risks or things going wrong.

Gaining from long lasting expert knowledge in the field of realizing budgeting-and-planning-
system, topcom is able to provide a large base of know-how for its clients. We are supporting
all project stages, if it is planning, implementation ore maintenance and adaptation. As
regards implementation, we are using standard software components of leading producers for
the development of solutions meeting the requirements of enterprises.