Executive Summary

Executive Suite™ is a fully integrated business planning and performance management system comprising:

• Business Performance Analysis & reporting
• Financial Intelligence & reporting
• Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
• Financial Consolidation

"Executive Suite" delivers the most integrated management reporting, budgeting and statutory consolidation product available".

Built on the leading Microsoft® SQL Server™, Analysis Services and Microsoft® .NET technology, Executive Suite offers your organization one solution for all your business performance needs. You no longer have to implement and maintain a myriad number of spreadsheets and applications from different vendors.

With Executive Suite by CDC Software, you can define, monitor, analyze and adjust your business performance precisely and quickly.

The Market

Today's executives are forced to make more decisions, and faster, than ever before. ExecutiveSuite meets this demand by providing faster, easier access to actual and planned business and financial performance, with the automated processes and integration needed to harvest invaluable new insights and develop new strategic directions.

The Challenge

The demand for updated news about a business and its financial status is high, but the supply of this important information is often slow and inadequate. This is frequently because a company's budgeting and planning processes are detached from its financial and business reporting. Furthermore, the consolidation of budgets and actual results often requires multi-departmental collaboration.

For success in today's business markets, it's vital that enterprises find new ways to enable quick and efficient acquisition of knowledge so that the right decisions can be made and actions taken without delay.

Solution Overview

Executive Suite consists of all components necessary for a complete business performance management system: - Diagram A



Business Performance Analysis & Reporting

A full-featured business performance solution based on Microsoft® SQL Server™ and Analysis Services for operation in a web environment. Features include:

• Management dashboards
• Data-mining
• Reporting (dynamic, static, standard and personalized)
• Intelligent analysis (including 'What-if?' capability)
• Management alerts (via e-mail)

Financial Intelligence and Reporting

A financial analysis and reporting tool with refined financial intelligence and able to access and interpret all data from the chart-of-accounts from an ERP/accounting system. Features include:

• Financial statements
• Advanced Financial reporting & analysis (dynamic, static, standard and personalized)
• Currency Conversion & Exchange Rate Management
• GL Account Management
• Debit/Credit & Actual/Budget Intelligence

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting module

A corporate-wide web-based planning, budgeting & forecasting solution with one centralized real-time repository. Central to the module is workflow for administration and approval. This means bottlenecks in the budgeting process can quickly be identified. A form builder allows budgeting templates to be built, while also controlling what figures can be added, what can be viewed for reference and securely restricting all other data from view. Automatic consolidation of budgets into pro-rata financial statements provides immediate answers to relevant questions.


Financial Consolidation module

The consolidation and statutory reporting module provides features and functions to help organizations quickly, efficiently and precisely consolidate financial information from multiple subsidiaries. This includes complications arising from multiple-GAAP reporting requirements, circular ownership structures and rules to automatically recommend eliminations of inter-company transactions in preparation for external reporting. Automatic journal entries increases accuracy and saves manual effort. Standards-based Intel architecture affords easy integration with legacy systems or third-party systems.

Overview of Benefits

Designed to offer unrivalled automation, ExecutiveSuite enables the hassle-free extraction and loading of data from ERP and accounting systems, including validations and error checking, as well as automatic consolidations and allocations. A true business performance management solution must deliver ¡§one version of the truth¡¨. Only in this way can it eliminate uncertainty about who has the correct information ¡V a situation which can often lead to time-consuming reconciliation efforts.

Business Value Proposition

Executive Suite brings together all your data and tools using your existing infrastructure, simultaneously improving the quality and reducing the cost of your information management processes. With ExecutiveSuite, you can better understand your business and find the insights you need to make the right decisions using the right information at the right time.