Host Analytics Delivers Improved Driver Based And Top Down Budgeting With Enhanced Budgeting Software

Host Analytics Budgeting Software Now Enables Finance Departments to Better Quantify Business Risk by Changing Business Drivers and Measure Impacts on Financials

ST LOUIS, MO (PRWEB) January 27, 2006 -- Host Analytics, the price, performance leader in Business Performance Management software solutions, today announced a new version if its budgeting software, that enhances top down planning and the integration with bottom up planning.

Additions to the already-existing driver based budgeting capabilities in Host Budget enable finance departments to analyze budget model sensitivity at a very detailed level based on changes to business drivers, which facilitates:
-   Detailed level “what if” analysis based on changes to business drivers.
-   Sensitivity analysis of business drivers.
-   The use of top down plans as targets and comparison to the bottom up plan.
-   The seeding of the bottom up plan at a detailed level from the top down plan as a starting point and target for the detail operational budgets.

“Finance departments around the globe require the ability to quantify business risk by changing business drivers and measure the impact on their financial position," said Jim Eberlin, chief executive officer for Host Analytics. “Version 6 of our budgeting software now allows more in-depth 'what if' analysis and modeling of top down and bottom up plans.”

As companies work to improve their overall business and corporate performance, the budgeting software requirements change from a tool to allow stake holders to manage performance to a dynamic tool used by operations to manage the business. Host Analytics has added new functionality to deliver a more dynamic tool for operational budgeting.

The integration between top down drivers and iterative “what if” analysis allows operational personnel to compile contingency plans based on changes in the business environment.

About Host Analytics
Host Analytics is the price – performance leader in Business Intelligence and Business Performance Management that help companies improve their Budgeting, Forecasting, Financial Consolidations, Dashboarding, Scorecarding, and Reporting and Analysis. Founded in 1999, Host Analytics delivers a complete suite of business performance management software offered as installed solution or hosted. Host Analytics has customers around the world. For additional information, visit www.hostanalytics.com or call (314) 588-2121.

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