Budget Loader can reduce your budgetary operating in several ways. Budget Loader's high-level capabilities are compared to the typical home-built planning solution below...
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Functional Savings | Budget Loader | In House |
Configurability: Budget Loader has a point-and-click interface which allows a non-technical end user the ability to change the worksheet in many ways. |  | maybe |
History Retrieval: Because Budget Loader pulls your planning or actuals history directly into the workbook, there will be a lot less time assembling historical information to be used a starting point for budgeting/ reforecasting. | | maybe |
No Re-Keying: Manual data entry is eliminated with Budget Loader. The source spreadsheet is used as the basis for uploading the SAP plan information. | | maybe |
Faster Turnaround: Because Budget Loader uses a comfortable Excel environment and allows the extensive use of Excel formulas, Budgets can be manipulated and reloaded quickly to facilitate a more iterative budgeting cycle. | | maybe |
Easy Reforecasting: Use your existing Budget Loader worksheets to build a reforecast. Just change the SAP Version, your formulas, and the historical values, and "process" the worksheet. | | maybe |
Improved Variance Analysis: Budget Loader will allow you to create more planning data with less effort. You can then plan at a deeper level of detail to get better granularity in your actual vs. plan comparisons. | | maybe |
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One-Time Upgrade Savings | Budget Loader | In House |
Full SAP Version support: Budget Loader supports SAP from version 4.6c to ERP 2005/ECC 6.0. Budget Loader will require minimal retesting when your organization upgrades to new versions of SAP. This elimination of re-testing/re-configuration alone may justify the price of Budget Loader. | | maybe |
Full MS Office Version support: Budget Loader supports the following versions of MS Office: 2000, XP, 2003, 2007. Budget Loader is not supported in Windows/Office 95 environments. | | maybe |
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Ongoing IT Savings | Budget Loader | In House |
Reduce Ongoing Support Costs: Z Option provides world-class support for its customers. This allows your internal IT staff to focus on other issues. | | no |
Eliminate Ongoing Development: Z Option is committed to constantly improving Budget Loader. Many of our customers' suggestions are incorporated into future releases without charge. | | no |
Immediacy: Budget Loader is ready to begin contributing to your bottom-line now. | | maybe |
Easy Installation: Budget Loader typically takes minutes to install on a PC. | | maybe |