Optimize Performance with Driver-based Planning

What are the key performance indicators that drive the success of your business?  Are these drivers an integral part of your planning and budgeting process?  Planning Maestro takes you beyond the traditional approach to budgeting and planning by enabling you to support a driver-based planning process that incorporates the key operational metrics that drive profitability and growth for your particular business, in your particular industry.

Flexibility to Customize Your Business Drivers

You have a tremendous amount of flexibility in Planning Maestro to create your business drivers.  These drivers can be financial and non-financial drivers.   Examples of non-financial drivers may be billable hours, square footage, utilization rates, # of procedures, # of customers, # of subscriptions, headcount, sales price, etc.   They can be set up as unit, monetary and percentage drivers.  

The beauty of this "list of business drivers" is that you can label them whatever you like and they are available to use anywhere in the business model.   You can use any driver for any line item to generate any type of calculation.   Any changes to the drivers will automatically ripple through the related parts of the model.   And the best part is that you don't have to create a single formula.  No other business performance management solution makes it this easy.

Planning Maestro driver-based planning enables you to:

• Develop a model that utilizes financial and non-financial drivers
• Utilize these drivers anywhere in the model - revenue, expenses, personnel, fixed assets, top-down allocations, bottom-up calculations
• Provide a consistent set of metrics throughout the plan
• Label the drivers whatever you like for your business, your industry
• Set up unit, monetary and percentage drivers to be used anywhere in the model