BI Comparison 2008

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Question - Highlighted questions indicate a difference

from the previous year:

Cognos Performance

Management SolutionDynacTools Exact Software Macs Controlling

Additions

Changes

Product

ProductCognos Performance

Management Solution DynacTools Exact Software Macs Controlling

Vendor Cognos Dynac Inc. 5 Macs Controlling

Version 8 1.5 Jul-08 2.7

Release date (mmm-yy) Jun-08 Jun-05 Dec-07

Contact

Name Gary MacFarlane Sales Chris Meyer

Telephone 519.571.3254 800-468-0834, ext 5940 1800 946 3160

E-mail [email protected] [email protected]@macscontr

olling.com

Website www.cognos.com www.dynactools.ca www.exactba.comwww.macscontrolling.co

m

Cost (Canadian dollars)

Licence based

Average cost per user $575 $700 $3,500

Average no. of users 10 40 10

Average cost $5,750 $28,000 $35,000

Ratio - average implementation cost/licence cost 1.00 0.50

Average implementation cost $5,750 $14,000 $0

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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Total licence based $11,500 $42,000 $35,000

Annual Maintenance % 20% 18% 18%

Annual Maintenance Dollars $1,150 $5,040 $6,300

Support included in maintenance fee Partly Yes

ASP (Application service provider) based

Average annual fee / user

Average no. of users

Average annual fees

Average implementation costs / average fees - year one

Average implementation costs

Total ASP based - 1st Year

Support included in ASP fee

Applications

Business intelligence Yes Third Party Yes Yes

Strategic planning Yes Yes No Yes

Budgeting and Forecasting Yes Yes No Yes

Consolidation Yes Yes Yes No

Financial Reporting Yes Yes Yes Yes

Scorecarding Yes Yes Yes Yes

Dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes

Profile

World head office Ottawa, Canada Kitchener, Ontario Delft, The Netherlands Rottweil, Germany

Canadian head office Ottawa, Canada Kitchener, Ontario Cambridge, ON None

No. of customers - worldwide - all products 23,000+ 150

No. of customers - worldwide - this product 200 150



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

No. of customers - Canada - all products 2

No. of customers - Canada - this product 175 2

Revenue 2007 - CAD - all products (est.) 252

Revenue 2007 - CAD - this product (est.)

Revenue 2006 - CAD - all products 242

Revenue 2006 - CAD - this product

Target market

Average revenue/customer (CAD) >$200M $10M-$49M >$200M >$200M

Average no. of employees/customer >500 100-499 100-499 10-49

Industry classification based on The North American

Industry Classification System (NAICS) - see

http://www.naics.com/info.htm#Structure for more about

NAICS (approximate % of implementations)

DynacTools is applicable to all

industry classifications

11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting 1%

21 Mining

22 Utilities

23 Construction 4%31-33 Manufacturing 80% 80%

42 Wholesale trade 15%

44-45 Retail trade

48-49 Transportation and warehousing 5%

51 Information

52 Finance and insurance 5%

53 Real estate and rental and leasing

54 Professional, scientific, and technical services



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

55 Management of companies and enterprises

56 Administrative and support and waste management

and remediation services

61 Education services

62 Health care and social assistance 5%71 Arts, entertainment and recreation

72 Accommodation and food services

81 Other services (except public administration)

92 Public administration 5%

Total 100% 100%

Technology

Supported database (% of implementations)

Microsoft SQL Server Supported 70% 70%Oracle Supported 3% 20%

Pervasive SQL Supported 2%

IBM DB2 Supported 25% 5%

Sybase Supported 5%

Informix Supported

Access Supported

Btrieve Supported

Proprietary Supported

FoxPro Supported

Progress Supported

MySQL Supported

Other Supported

Total 100% 100%



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Additions

Changes

Product

Supported networks (% of implementations)

Microsoft Supported 100% 80%

Linux Supported 10%

Unix Supported 10%

AIX SupportedNovell Netware Supported

IBM AS/400 (OS/400) Supported

IBM S/390 Supported

Other Supported

Total 100% 100%

Development tools used to build application Yes Borland Delphi, VBA Delphi, C++, C# .Net .net, C++, C#

Report writer used - which one(s)? Yes DynacViews Own macs Analyzer

Data Extract Transform Load (ETL) tools - which one(s)? Yes ODBC Own ODBC, SOA

Cubes supported - which one(s)? Yes Own, MS SQL None, not cube based



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Share same database Yes Yes Yes Yes

Same user interface Yes Yes Yes Yes

Integrated Yes Yes Yes Yes

Dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes

Role specific Yes Third Party Yes Yes

Graphical Yes Third Party Yes Yes

Drill down to: Yes Yes Yes

Business Intelligence Yes Third Party Yes Yes

Consolidation Yes Yes Yes No

Budgeting and forecasting Yes Yes Customization Yes

Scorecarding Yes Third Party Yes Yes

Excel integration Yes Yes Yes

Formatting intact Yes No Yes Yes

Formulas intact Yes No No Yes

Business Intelligence Yes

Analytic functionality Yes Yes Yes

Bubble up exceptions Yes Yes Yes No

Drill down Yes Yes Yes Yes

Drill through to source data Yes Yes Yes No

Ranking Yes Yes Yes Yes

Sorting Yes Yes Yes Yes

Restrict results by date range Yes Yes Yes Yes

Includes dashboard Yes Yes Yes Yes

Time trending (for example, over 12 months) Yes Yes Yes Yes

Pareto filtering (automatically groups the categories that

amount to less than 20% of a row or column total into

"other")

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Calculations Yes Yes Yes

Counts Yes Yes Yes Yes

Percentage of total Yes Yes Yes Yes



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Allocations Yes Yes Yes Yes

Total and Sub-total Yes Yes Yes Yes

Create OLAP cubes Yes Yes Yes No

Data extraction and transformation tools Yes Yes Yes

Incremental extraction Yes Yes Yes Yes

Impact analysis - objects impacted by change Yes Yes Yes Yes

Can schedule process to run overnight Yes Yes Yes Yes

Formatting Yes Yes Yes

By dimension Yes Yes Yes Yes

By level Yes Yes Yes Yes

By cell Yes Yes Yes Yes

Zero-row suppression Yes Yes Yes Yes

Conditional formatting by cell, e.g., highlight cells

below threshold Yes Yes Yes Yes

Returns text (e.g., if value > 90, returns "excellent") Yes Yes Yes Yes

French version Yes Yes No Yes

Screens Yes Yes No Yes

Reports Yes Yes No Yes

Documentation Yes Yes No Yes

Metadata Yes Yes Yes Yes

OLAP functionality Yes Yes Yes

Skip missing levels - support ragged dimensions Yes Yes Yes NoWrite back Yes Yes No No

With audit trail Yes Yes No No

Includes charting tools Yes Yes Yes No

Access multiple cubes at a time Yes Yes Yes No

Excel client Yes Yes Yes No

Internet Explorer client Yes Yes Yes No

Netscape client Yes Yes Yes No

Geographical representation Yes Yes Yes No



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Drag and drop Yes Yes Yes No

Attach notes to cube Yes Yes Yes No

Attach notes to cells Yes Yes No No

Attach files to cube Yes Yes No No

Attach files to cells Yes Yes No No

Password security Yes Yes Yes Yes

By company Yes Yes Yes Yes

By department or division Yes Yes Yes Yes

By menu Yes Yes Yes Yes

By function (view, add, change, delete) Yes Yes Yes Yes

By dimension Yes Yes Yes Yes

By level Yes Yes Yes Yes

By cell Yes Yes Yes Yes

Respect active directory authentication Yes Yes Yes Yes

Respect database security Yes Yes Yes Yes

Portal generation that includes HTML reports Yes Yes Yes Yes

Report writer Yes Yes Yes Yes

Web-based Yes Yes Yes Yes

Generate cube Yes Yes Yes No

Drag and drop Yes Yes Yes Yes

WYSIWYG report design Yes Yes Yes Yes

Technology

API-enabled (SDK provided) Yes No No

Web-based (only need browser at client) Yes No Yes Yes

For entire application Yes No No No

Support for .NET web services Yes No Yes Yes

Support for Java web services Yes No Partly No

Transfer data to:

Report writer Yes Yes Yes Yes

Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes

PivotTable Yes Yes Yes Yes



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Additions

Changes

Product

HTML Yes Yes Yes Yes

PDF Yes Yes Yes Yes

PowerPoint Yes Yes Yes No

XML Yes Yes Yes Yes

Views

Crosstabs Yes Yes Yes

Charts Yes Yes Yes

Both crosstabs and chart at the same time Yes Yes Yes

Work flow Yes Yes Customization

Alerts can be automatically triggered Yes Yes Yes Yes

Consolidation Yes

Journal entries Yes Yes Yes No

Manual Yes Yes Yes No

Recurring Yes Yes Not Applicable No

Automated for currency translation gains/losses Yes Yes Not Applicable No

Automated for Intercompany eliminations Yes Yes Not Applicable No

Reclassification journal entry - EG used to generate

cash flow report or balance sheetYes Yes No No

Intercompany processing Yes Yes Partly No

Automated balancing Yes Yes No No

Consolidation processor Yes Yes Yes No

Consolidate actuals and budgets Yes Yes Yes No

Consolidate statistical ledgers such as headcounts Yes Yes Partly No

Incremental for entities that have changed Yes Yes Yes No

Different fiscal periods Yes Yes Yes No

Different fiscal calendars Yes Yes Yes No

Short year-ends Yes Yes Yes No

Multiple levels or tiers Yes Yes Yes No

Automated Intercompany eliminations to first common

parentYes Yes No No



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Additions

Changes

Product

Data collection Yes Yes Yes No

Online over the internet Yes No Partly No

Only a browser required (don't need Citrix or terminal

services)Yes No Yes No

Work offline and synchronize Yes Yes Yes NoParsing Yes No Yes No

Mapping Yes Yes Yes No

Wildcards Yes Yes Yes No

Validation Yes Yes Partly No

Can proceed or stop depending on variance Yes Yes Partly No

Maintain status Yes Yes Not Applicable No

Approvals Yes Yes No No

Escalations if late Yes Yes Customization No

Intercompany eliminations Yes Yes Partly No

Define intercompany accounts Yes Yes Yes No

Automated eliminations Yes Yes Partly No

Reporting tool to identify out of balance entities Yes Yes Yes No

Foreign currency translation Yes Yes Yes No

Support temporal method Yes Yes Yes No

Multiple rate types Yes Yes Yes No

Define which rate type by account Yes Yes Yes No

Maintain rate schedule that can be shared across all

legal entities Yes Yes Yes NoDownload daily rates automatically Yes Yes Yes No

Methods: Yes Yes Yes No

Proportional Yes Yes Yes No

Equity Yes Yes Partly No

Minority interest Yes Yes No No

Wholly owned Yes Yes Yes No

Multi tier consolidation Yes Yes Yes No

On-line review and approval of consolidation process at

each tierYes Yes Yes No



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Drill down to any tier Yes Yes Yes No

Multiple ledgers Yes Yes Yes No

Ownership Yes Yes Yes No

Date sensitive ownership - for changes during the

monthYes Yes Partly No

Reorganizations Yes Yes Yes No

Change account structure and replicate across system Yes Yes No No

Revaluations Yes Yes No

Partly

Financial Reporting Yes

Analysis Codes Yes Yes Yes

Attach to accounts or g/l segments Yes Yes Yes

Can be used in any financial report for selection orordering

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Results in home or reporting currency Yes Yes Yes Yes

Rows can be defined Yes Yes Yes Yes

Columns can be defined Yes Yes Yes Yes

Cell Override Yes Yes Yes Yes

Hierarchical reporting Yes Yes Yes Yes

Multiple hierarchies Yes Yes Yes Yes

Lead schedules Yes Yes Yes Yes

Ready for external reporting Yes Yes Partly YesRounding to nearest 1000 and allocation of rounding error

to specified financial statement lineYes Not Applicable Yes Yes

Trend analysis showing last 12 periods Yes Yes Partly Yes

Exception reporting Yes Yes Yes Yes

Highlight all accounts with a variance over a certain % or

amountYes Yes Yes Yes

Consolidate Accounts Receivable subledger Yes Third Party Yes No

Compute Daily Sales Outstanding Yes Third Party Yes

Eliminate intercompany accounts Yes Third Party Yes No



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Budgeting Yes

Automatic % change of previous budget Yes Yes No Yes

Automatic based on actual Yes Yes No Yes

Excel like formulas Yes Yes No YesSeasonality allocations Yes Yes No Yes

Budgeting process Yes Yes No Yes

Bottom up Yes Yes No Yes

Top down Yes Yes No Yes

Export to Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes

Import from Excel Yes Yes Yes Yes

Lockable Yes Yes No Yes

Maintain explanation of budget variances Yes Yes No Yes

Based on employee information in HR system Yes No No Yes

Multiple Budgets Yes Yes No Yes

Rolling budget Yes Yes No Yes

Sign assumed Yes Yes No Yes

What if analysis Yes Yes Customization Yes

Ability to update assumptions which are used in the

calculationsYes Yes No Yes

Rollup forecast to budget Yes Yes No Yes

Approval process Yes Yes No Yes

Forecasting Yes

Quotes and their probability Yes Yes No Yes

Outstanding orders Yes Yes No Yes

Customer forecasts Yes Yes No Yes

Historical trends Yes Yes No Yes

Average of 13 weeks volume Yes Yes No Yes

Can apply factors such as seasonality Yes Yes No Yes

Apply regression analysis Yes Yes No Yes



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product

Apply factors such as housing starts and market

adjustment factorYes Yes No Yes

Ability to accept input from multiple users Yes Yes No Yes

Approval process Yes Yes No Yes

What if Analysis Yes Yes Customization Yes

Name one to five unique or very important features of

your product (limit of 250 characters)

Unique/important feature no.1All features are designed to be

Owned by Finance

Create Budgets and Forecasts

(at the Account or SKU level

with an optional feature to

drive MPS) in hours not weeksor months complete with multi-

user inputs

All benefits of data

warehouse/data mart without

the need to have one

Maintains accurate split

between fixed and variable

costs enabling contribution

margin decisions making atcustomer and product level

Unique/important feature no. 2

Rich ecosystem of best-

practice solutions surrounds

core product capabilities

DynacViews outperforms most

GL report writers complete with

auto synchronization of row

and column structure and

dynamic filtering where

reporting structure is user

defined with a drag an drop

interface called Dynac Account

Manager

Prebuilt business analytics

suite with analytic views,

reports and supporting

metadata

Driver based modelling

enabling accurate cost profit

simulations of how a change in

volume/mix influences your

cost base



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Cognos Performance


Additions

Changes

Product


Rich global consolidation

capabilities to support

currency, minority interest,intercompany - and multi-

jurisdictional GAAP reporting

Cognos / Hyperion like

consolidation features at afraction of the price

online/offline analysis

Accurate Variance Analysis:

Ability to flex the variableportion of budgeted cost for

comparison against actual cost



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Additions

Changes

Product

Product

Vendor

Version

Release date (mmm-yy)

Contact

Name

Telephone

E-mail

Website


Licence based

Average cost per user


Average cost

Ratio - average implementation cost/licence cost

Average implementation cost

Microsoft Office

PerformancePoint ServerPROPHIX Express PROPHIX for SQL Server QlikView

Microsoft Office

PerformancePoint Server PROPHIX Express PROPHIX for SQL Server QlikView

Microsoft PROPHIX Software PROPHIX Software QlikTech, Inc.

2007 7 4.1 8.5

Sep-07 Mar-08 Aug-08 Jun-08

Susan Lawson Susan Lawson Neil Florio

(877) 568-2495 (905) 279-8711 ext. 245 (905) 279-8711 ext. 245 888-828-9768

[email protected]

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

www.microsoft.ca/bi www.prophix.com www.prophix.com www.qliktech.com

$261 $1,500 $2,000 $2,000

100 5 30 40

$26,100 $7,500 $60,000 $80,000

3.00 0.75 0.75

$78,300 $5,625 $45,000 $0

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Additions

Changes

Product

Total licence based

Annual Maintenance %

Annual Maintenance Dollars

Support included in maintenance fee

ASP (Application service provider) basedAverage annual fee / user


Average annual fees





Applications

Business intelligence

Strategic planning

Budgeting and Forecasting

Consolidation

Financial Reporting

Scorecarding

Dashboard

Profile

World head office

Canadian head office

No. of customers - worldwide - all products

No. of customers - worldwide - this product

Microsoft Office


$104,400 $13,125 $105,000 $80,000

25% 20% 20% 20%

$6,525 $1,500 $12,000 $16,000

Yes Yes Yes Yes

$0

1.00

$0

$0

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Redmond, WA Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Radnor, PA

Mississauga, On Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

> 1 Billion 1,400 1,400 9,500

>500 1,250 150 9,500



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Additions

Changes

Product

No. of customers - Canada - all products

No. of customers - Canada - this product

Revenue 2007 - CAD - all products (est.)


Revenue 2006 - CAD - all products


Target market

Average revenue/customer (CAD)

Average no. of employees/customer





11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

21 Mining

22 Utilities

23 Construction31-33 Manufacturing

42 Wholesale trade

44-45 Retail trade

48-49 Transportation and warehousing

51 Information

52 Finance and insurance



Microsoft Office


>20,000,000 140 140 60

>60 14 14 60

n/a n/a $85,200,000

n/a n/a $85,200,000

n/a n/a $46,860,000

n/a n/a $46,860,000

>$200M 25 Mil. - 500 Mil. 25 Mil. - 500 Mil. $50M-$200M

>500 >500 >500 100-499

2% 2% 5%

3% 3%

2% 2% 5%

2% 2% 5%23% 23% 25%

5% 5% 10%

3% 3% 5%

3% 3% 5%

5% 5%

10% 10% 20%

2% 2%

10% 10% 5%


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Additions

Changes

Product

55 Management of companies and enterprises

56 Administrative and support and waste management

and remediation services

61 Education services

62 Health care and social assistance71 Arts, entertainment and recreation

72 Accommodation and food services

81 Other services (except public administration)

92 Public administration

Total

Technology

Supported database (% of implementations)

Microsoft SQL ServerOracle

Pervasive SQL

IBM DB2

Sybase

Informix

Access

Btrieve

Proprietary

FoxPro

Progress

MySQL

Other

Total

Microsoft Office


1% 1%

5% 5%

12% 12% 10%3% 3% 5%

3% 3%

5% 5%

1% 1%

100% 100% 100%

90% Supported Supported Yes8% Supported Supported Yes

Supported Supported Yes

2% Supported Supported Yes




as long as it is ODBC

compliant


compliantYes

as long as it is ODBCcompliant

as long as it is ODBCcompliant

Yes


compliant


compliantYes



compliant


compliantYes

Pilot Software Pilot SoftwareYes - HP NeoView and any

ODBC compliant database

100%


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Additions

Changes

Product


Microsoft

Linux

Unix

AIXNovell Netware

IBM AS/400 (OS/400)

IBM S/390

Other

Total

Development tools used to build application

Report writer used - which one(s)?

Data Extract Transform Load (ETL) tools - which one(s)?

Cubes supported - which one(s)?

Microsoft Office


100% Supported Supported Yes

Supported Supported Partial (Database)


Supported Supported Partial (Database)Supported Supported Partial (Database)



Partial (Database)

100%

BIDS, Dashboard Designer,

Business Modeller

Visual Basic, HTML, Active X

Controls, XML

Visual Basic, HTML, Active X

Controls, XMLQlikView Developer

Visual Studio, Report Builder,

Office WriterEmbedded in Product Embedded in Product QlikView Developer

SSIS Embedded in Product Embedded in Product QlikView Developer

SSAS

Pilot Software, Analysis

Services

Pilot Software, Analysis

Services

QlikView customers utilize

ODBC to connect to and

retrieve data from a wide range

of OLAP data sourcesincluding Microsoft, SAP,

Hyperion, Cognos, and

BusinessObjects.


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Additions

Changes

Product

Existing integration to accounting and ERP systems -

which systems?

Existing integration to customer relationship management

systems - which systems?

Existing integration to payroll systems - which systems?

Existing integration to HRMS systems - which systems?

Available from Application Service Provider

Approx. no. of implementations

2-tier, 3-tier or n-tier architecture

Metadata standard supported

Maximum size of OLAP cube

Generic

Integration of applications in Section D.

Microsoft Office


Microsoft Dynamics no limitations no limitations




of applications including SAP,

Oracle, Sage, Intentia, Baan,JD Edwards, Great Plains,

Navision





of CRM data sources including

Sage, Lawson, Microsoft CRM,

Salesforce, Peoplesoft




retrieve data from payroll

systems such as ADP





of OLAP data sources

including Stratum, JD

Edwards, Peoplesoft, Agresso

Yes No No Yes

n/a n/a Partner Implementations

n-Tier 2-Tier 3-Tier n-Tier

Yes Not Applicable

4 TB unlimited unlimited No Limit

Yes Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Share same database

Same user interface

Integrated

Dashboard

Role specificGraphical

Drill down to:

Business Intelligence

Consolidation

Budgeting and forecasting

Scorecarding

Excel integration

Formatting intact

Formulas intact


Analytic functionality

Bubble up exceptions

Drill down

Drill through to source data

Ranking

Sorting

Restrict results by date range

Includes dashboard

Time trending (for example, over 12 months)



"other")

Calculations

Counts

Percentage of total

Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Allocations

Total and Sub-total

Create OLAP cubes

Data extraction and transformation tools

Incremental extractionImpact analysis - objects impacted by change

Can schedule process to run overnight

Formatting

By dimension

By level

By cell

Zero-row suppression


below threshold

Returns text (e.g., if value > 90, returns "excellent")

French version

Screens

Reports

Documentation

Metadata

OLAP functionality

Skip missing levels - support ragged dimensionsWrite back

With audit trail

Includes charting tools

Access multiple cubes at a time

Excel client

Internet Explorer client

Netscape client

Geographical representation

Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Yes

Yes No Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Drag and drop

Attach notes to cube

Attach notes to cells

Attach files to cube

Attach files to cellsPassword security

By company

By department or division

By menu

By function (view, add, change, delete)

By dimension

By level

By cell

Respect active directory authenticationRespect database security

Portal generation that includes HTML reports

Report writer

Web-based

Generate cube

Drag and drop

WYSIWYG report design

Technology

API-enabled (SDK provided)

Web-based (only need browser at client)

For entire application

Support for .NET web services

Support for Java web services

Transfer data to:

Report writer

Excel

PivotTable

Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes Customization

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Not Applicable

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes

Yes Future Date Future Date Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Partly Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No No No Yes

Yes

Yes Yes Yes Future Date

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Future Date Future Date Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

HTML

PDF

PowerPoint

XML

ViewsCrosstabs

Charts

Both crosstabs and chart at the same time

Work flow

Alerts can be automatically triggered

Consolidation

Journal entries

Manual

Recurring

Automated for currency translation gains/losses

Automated for Intercompany eliminations


cash flow report or balance sheet

Intercompany processing

Automated balancing

Consolidation processor

Consolidate actuals and budgets

Consolidate statistical ledgers such as headcounts

Incremental for entities that have changed

Different fiscal periods

Different fiscal calendars

Short year-ends

Multiple levels or tiers


parent

Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

YesYes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Future Date Future Date

No No Future Date Not Applicable

No No Future Date Not Applicable

Yes No Yes Not Applicable

Yes No Yes Not Applicable



No Partly Yes Not Applicable





Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes



Yes Partly Yes Not Applicable


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Additions

Changes

Product

Data collection

Online over the internet


services)

Work offline and synchronizeParsing

Mapping

Wildcards

Validation

Can proceed or stop depending on variance

Maintain status

Approvals

Escalations if late

Intercompany eliminationsDefine intercompany accounts

Automated eliminations

Reporting tool to identify out of balance entities

Foreign currency translation

Support temporal method

Multiple rate types

Define which rate type by account


legal entitiesDownload daily rates automatically

Methods:

Proportional

Equity

Minority interest

Wholly owned

Multi tier consolidation


each tier

Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes Yes


Third Party Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Partly


Yes Future Date Future Date Not Applicable

Yes Yes YesYes Yes Yes Not Applicable

Partly Future Date Yes Not Applicable

Yes Yes Yes Yes





Yes Yes Not Applicable

No No Partly Not Applicable

Yes





Yes Yes Yes

Yes Partly Yes Not Applicable


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Additions

Changes

Product

Drill down to any tier

Multiple ledgers

Ownership


month

Reorganizations

Change account structure and replicate across system

Revaluations

Financial Reporting

Analysis Codes

Attach to accounts or g/l segments

Can be used in any financial report for selection or

ordering

Results in home or reporting currency

Rows can be defined

Columns can be defined

Cell Override

Hierarchical reporting

Multiple hierarchies

Lead schedules

Ready for external reporting

Rounding to nearest 1000 and allocation of rounding error

to specified financial statement line

Trend analysis showing last 12 periods

Exception reporting


amount

Consolidate Accounts Receivable subledger

Compute Daily Sales Outstanding

Eliminate intercompany accounts

Microsoft Office



Yes Yes Yes

Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

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Additions

Changes

Product

Budgeting

Automatic % change of previous budget

Automatic based on actual

Excel like formulasSeasonality allocations

Budgeting process

Bottom up

Top down

Export to Excel

Import from Excel

Lockable

Maintain explanation of budget variances

Based on employee information in HR systemMultiple Budgets

Rolling budget

Sign assumed

What if analysis


calculations

Rollup forecast to budget

Approval process

Forecasting

Quotes and their probability

Outstanding orders

Customer forecasts

Historical trends

Average of 13 weeks volume

Can apply factors such as seasonality

Apply regression analysis

Microsoft Office


Partly Yes Yes Partly

Partly Yes Yes Partly


Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Third Party

Yes No No Yes

Yes Yes No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No No No


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Additions

Changes

Product


adjustment factor

Ability to accept input from multiple users

Approval process

What if Analysis



Unique/important feature no.1


Microsoft Office


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Associations, being able to

map data fields across

planning models.

Fully integrated budgeting,

planning and reporting

implemented remotely in less

than 2 weeks.

InfoFlex gives users

numerous options to transform

their data. Users can copy or

move data, allocate existing

data, increase data by apercentage, or forecast based

on YTD data or assumptions

In memory data model for high

performance, ad-hoc analysis,

Economics, in terms of lower

end user training costs,

expansive ecosystem of

individuals skilled on Microsoft

technology and licensing costs

Pre-built and pre-defined

financial statements with the

unlimited ability to create more

reports.

Delta Analysis is an

interactive, graphical tool used

to compare, contrast and

update any data point. For

example, users can perform a

year-on-year comparison or

drill down to the monthly orweekly level to get a more

detailed analysis.

Single platform for

development, reporting, end

user and enterprise

deployment


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Changes

Product


Microsoft Office


Strong integration with

productivity and collaborationtools

Personnel Planning module

with predefined payroll

calculations linking to definedpayroll accounts and budgets.

Advanced Data Visualization

(ADV) is a reporting solution

that delivers visualization

capabilities for analytics and

monitoring of key decisionmetrics. ADV provides analysis

of details from many different

perspectives with drillable

dashboards.

Ability to select any dimension,

presentation of included and

excluded based on eachselection


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Changes

Product

Product

Vendor

Version

Release date (mmm-yy)

Contact

Name

Telephone

E-mail

Website


Licence based

Average cost per user


Average cost

Ratio - average implementation cost/licence cost

Average implementation cost

SAP BusinessObjects BI

PlatformSAP CPM

SAS Business Intelligence

and Financial Intelligence

Solutions

Yellowfin

`


Platform

For CPM: SAP Strategy

Management, Business

Objects Profitability and Cost

Management, SAP Business

Planning and Consolidation,

Business Objects FinancialConsolidation, SAP Spend

Analytics. For BI: SAP

NetWeaver Business

Intelligence

SAS Business Intelligence and

Financial Intelligence SolutionsYellowfin

SAP SAP SAS Yellowfin

XI 3.1

SAP NetWeaver BI - 7.0; CPM

- all 7.0 except SAP Spend

Analytics 2.0

SAS 9.2 4

Sep-08SAP NetWeaver BI - 2006;

CPM- all in 2008 Jul-08 Aug-08

Joy Chan Joy Chan Jim LaRue Glen Rabie

416-250-3347 416-250-3347 416 307 4552 61396422241

[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] i

www.sap.ca;

www.sap.com

www.sap.ca;

www.sap.comwww.sas.com www.yellowfin.bi

$650

100

$0 $65,000

0.75

$0 $48,750


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Additions

Changes

Product

Total licence based

Annual Maintenance %

Annual Maintenance Dollars

Support included in maintenance fee

ASP (Application service provider) basedAverage annual fee / user


Average annual fees





Applications

Business intelligence

Strategic planning

Budgeting and Forecasting

Consolidation

Financial Reporting

Scorecarding

Dashboard

Profile

World head office

Canadian head office

No. of customers - worldwide - all products

No. of customers - worldwide - this product


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

$0 $113,750

20%

$0 $13,000

Yes

Can Be - by Partners$300

1,000

$0 $300,000

3.00

$0 $900,000

$0 $1,200,000

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes No

No Yes Yes No

No Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Partly

No Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Walldorf, Germany Walldorf, Germany Cary, NC USA Australia

Toronto, Ontario Toronto, Ontario280 King Street East, Toronto,

ONOttawa

approximately 75,000 approximately 75,000 44,000 300

300


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Changes

Product

No. of customers - Canada - all products

No. of customers - Canada - this product

Revenue 2007 - CAD - all products (est.)


Revenue 2006 - CAD - all products


Target market

Average revenue/customer (CAD)Average no. of employees/customer





11 Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

21 Mining

22 Utilities

23 Construction31-33 Manufacturing

42 Wholesale trade

44-45 Retail trade

48-49 Transportation and warehousing

51 Information

52 Finance and insurance




PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

more than 1,170 customers

collectively with Business

Objects, an SAP company

more than 1,170 customers

collectively with Business

Objects, an SAP company

2,000 + 20

64 20

342.6 million Euros 342.6 million Euros 2,150 Million $5,000,000

as a privately held company

we do not report product

revenue

$5,000,000

304.7 million Euros 304.7 million Euros 2,100 Million $3,000,000

as a privately held company

we do not report product

revenue

$3,000,000

500

Yes Yes 5%

Yes Yes 1% 5%

Yes Yes 10% 5%

Yes YesYes Yes 12% 10%

Yes Yes 1% 5%

Yes Yes 10% 5%

Yes Yes 2% 10%

Yes Yes 1% 20%

Yes Yes 20% 5%

Yes Yes 1%

Yes Yes 2%



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Changes

Product


Microsoft

Linux

Unix

AIX

Novell Netware

IBM AS/400 (OS/400)

IBM S/390

Other

Total

Development tools used to build application

Report writer used - which one(s)?

Data Extract Transform Load (ETL) tools - which one(s)?

Cubes supported - which one(s)?


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

YES YES Supported 40%



YES YES Supported

Supported 5%

Supported

100%

Java, C++ Java, C++, ABAP/4 SAS AppDev Studio Eclipse

SAP BusinessObjects CrystalReports

SAP NetWeaver

SAS Web Report Studio, SAS

Enterprise Guide - part of SASEnterprise BI Server; SAS

Financial Management; Add-in

for Microsoft Office

Yellowfin

SAP BusinessObjects Data

IntegratorSAP NetWeaver SAS Data Integration Studio Talend, Kett le, Informatica

SAP NetWeaver, Oracle,

MicrosoftSAP NetWeaver MDX Compliant


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Additions

Changes

Product

Existing integration to accounting and ERP systems -

which systems?

Existing integration to customer relationship management

systems - which systems?

Existing integration to payroll systems - which systems?

Existing integration to HRMS systems - which systems?

Available from Application Service Provider

Approx. no. of implementations

2-tier, 3-tier or n-tier architecture

Metadata standard supported

Maximum size of OLAP cube

Generic

Integration of applications in Section D.


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

SAP, Oracle SAP, OracleOracle, PeopleSoft, SAP,

Siebel

SAP, JD Edwards, Oracle,

Pronto, many others

SAP, Oracle SAP, Oracle Siebel Multiple

SAP, Oracle/Peoplesoft SAP, Oracle/Peoplesoft Multiple

SAP, Oracle/Peoplesoft SAP, Oracle/Peoplesoft Multiple

Yes Yes

50

n-Tier n-Tier n-Tier

CWM CWM CWM, XML Yes

no limit No limit NA

Yes Yes Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Share same database

Same user interface

Integrated

Dashboard

Role specific

Graphical

Drill down to:


Consolidation

Budgeting and forecasting

Scorecarding

Excel integration

Formatting intact

Formulas intact


Analytic functionality

Bubble up exceptions

Drill down

Drill through to source data

Ranking

Sorting

Restrict results by date rangeIncludes dashboard

Time trending (for example, over 12 months)



"other")

Calculations

Counts

Percentage of total


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Future Date Partly Yes

Yes Future Date Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Future Date

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Partly Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Allocations

Total and Sub-total

Create OLAP cubes

Data extraction and transformation tools

Incremental extraction

Impact analysis - objects impacted by change

Can schedule process to run overnight

Formatting

By dimension

By level

By cell

Zero-row suppression


below threshold

Returns text (e.g., if value > 90, returns "excellent")

French version

Screens

Reports

Documentation

Metadata

OLAP functionality

Skip missing levels - support ragged dimensions

Write back

With audit trail

Includes charting tools

Access multiple cubes at a time

Excel client

Internet Explorer client

Netscape client

Geographical representation


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Partly Yes No

Yes Partly Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Customization Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Partly

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Partly Yes Yes

Yes Partly Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

Drag and drop

Attach notes to cube

Attach notes to cells

Attach files to cube

Attach files to cells

Password security

By company

By department or division

By menu

By function (view, add, change, delete)

By dimension

By level

By cell

Respect active directory authenticationRespect database security

Portal generation that includes HTML reports

Report writer

Web-based

Generate cube

Drag and drop

WYSIWYG report design

Technology

API-enabled (SDK provided)Web-based (only need browser at client)

For entire application

Support for .NET web services

Support for Java web services

Transfer data to:

Report writer

Excel

PivotTable


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No Future Date

Yes Yes No Future Date

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Partly Yes Yes


Partly Partly Yes Yes



Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Partly Yes Yes


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Additions

Changes

Product

HTML

PDF

PowerPoint

XML

Views

Crosstabs

Charts

Both crosstabs and chart at the same time

Work flow

Alerts can be automatically tr iggered

Consolidation

Journal entries

ManualRecurring

Automated for currency translation gains/losses

Automated for Intercompany eliminations


cash flow report or balance sheet

Intercompany processing

Automated balancing

Consolidation processor

Consolidate actuals and budgets

Consolidate statistical ledgers such as headcounts

Incremental for entities that have changed

Different fiscal periods

Different fiscal calendars

Short year-ends

Multiple levels or tiers


parent


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes No Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes NoYes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No


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Changes

Product

Data collection

Online over the internet


services)

Work offline and synchronize

Parsing

Mapping

Wildcards

Validation

Can proceed or stop depending on variance

Maintain status

Approvals

Escalations if late

Intercompany eliminations

Define intercompany accounts

Automated eliminations

Reporting tool to identify out of balance entities

Foreign currency translation

Support temporal method

Multiple rate types

Define which rate type by account


legal entities

Download daily rates automatically

Methods:

Proportional

Equity

Minority interest

Wholly owned

Multi tier consolidation


each tier


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes No No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No


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Additions

Changes

Product

Drill down to any tier

Multiple ledgers

Ownership


month

Reorganizations

Change account structure and replicate across system

Revaluations

Financial Reporting

Analysis Codes

Attach to accounts or g/l segments

Can be used in any financial report for selection or

orderingResults in home or reporting currency

Rows can be defined

Columns can be defined

Cell Override

Hierarchical reporting

Multiple hierarchies

Lead schedules

Ready for external reporting

Rounding to nearest 1000 and allocation of rounding errorto specified financial statement line

Trend analysis showing last 12 periods

Exception reporting


amount

Consolidate Accounts Receivable subledger

Compute Daily Sales Outstanding

Eliminate intercompany accounts


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes

No Yes Yes Yes

No Yes Yes No


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Additions

Changes

Product

Budgeting

Automatic % change of previous budget

Automatic based on actual

Excel like formulas

Seasonality allocations

Budgeting process

Bottom up

Top down

Export to Excel

Import from Excel

Lockable

Maintain explanation of budget variances

Based on employee information in HR system

Multiple Budgets

Rolling budget

Sign assumed

What if analysis


calculations

Rollup forecast to budget

Approval process

Forecasting

Quotes and their probability

Outstanding orders

Customer forecasts

Historical trends

Average of 13 weeks volume

Can apply factors such as seasonality

Apply regression analysis


PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Customization Customization Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes


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Changes

Product


adjustment factor

Ability to accept input from multiple users

Approval process

What if Analysis



Unique/important feature no.1



PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Customization Customization Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes No

Yes Yes Yes Yes

Yes Yes Yes Yes

All business intelligence users

and all data sources on a

single unified platform

For CPM - unified platform,

user-driven and high usability

Real Time consolidation

integration with advanced

analytics such as forecasting,

operations research, and data

mining

Usability

Business Intelligence solutions

for query, reporting, analysis,

dashboard, and user-friendly

information search and

exploration, enabling quick

access to information to make

enlightened decisions

For CPM - complete Office of

the CFO solution - core suite,

CPM and GRC

Complete integration of CPM

components through common

SAS 9 Platform (including

analytical human capital mgmt)

100% Web Based


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Product



PlatformSAP CPM



Solutions

Yellowfin

`

Information management

solutions for delivering data,

structured or unstructured,

across the enterprise that is

integrated, accurate,reconciled, and well

understood

For CPM - SOA-enabled;

integration with MDM, process

management and portaltechnology

Capacity to incorporate data to

measure and optimize Carbon

Footprint / Offsetting

Security


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