At a Glance

EASIEST TO USE
Excel is the user interface - easy, familiar, intuitive. This is where analysis, data entry and what-if's take place, and where reports are viewed.

EASIEST TO DEPLOY
First of all, the Spreadsheet Automation Server - the heart, soul and brains of A3 Modeling - unifies the entire Corporate Performance Management feature set of A3 Modeling including Reports, Input Models, Ad-hoc Analysis, Dashboards, Workflow, Security... everything.

LOWEST TOTAL COST TO OWN AND MAINTAIN
For many of the same reasons that A3 Modeling is easier to deploy - unified codebase, single point of maintenance of security, data source connections, and metadata - it is also lower cost to own and maintain.

A3 Modeling

Comprehensive Budgeting and Corporate Performance Management

A3 Modeling enables the full spectrum of Corporate Performance Management (CPM) - Enterprise Budgeting, Rolling Forecasting, Management Reporting, Multi-entity Consolidations, Dashboards and Adhoc Analysis - all under a single unified technology. Powered by our patent pending Spreadsheet Automation Server(tm) and leveraging highly intuitive, real-time consolidation "OLAP" database technology, solutions configured using A3 Modeling are:

• Quickest to deploy
• Easiest to use for both end-users and administrators
• Lowest total cost to own (TCO)

Quickest to Deploy

• Requires just spreadsheet and cube design skills. No macros, no links, no technical scripting. Compare to alternatives that require many weeks of highly technical consultants, and knowledge of proprietary programming languages.
• Snaps onto the most natural and intuitively designed financial and operational cubes and tables. No compromises. No workarounds! Place the calculation logic where it is most optimal, in either the client spreadsheet model or the central cubes. Compare to so called state-of-the-art platforms that impose limitations that cripple the OLAP cube design, and whose front-ends support minimal calculation logic forcing unnecessary complexity and performance load on the calculation server.
• Installs in a few minutes with a single wizard. Input models, reports, dashboards, and analyses all share centralized and data-driven metadata and secruity. Compare to vendors that require five, six or seven product installations, and who find it necessary to develop special workspaces to approximate the experience of an integrated feel while requiring multple consultants working full-time in the background to keep all of the pieces synchronized.

Easiest To Use

• End users enjoy full-on spreadsheet models delivered to them in real-time and personalized to include just the information they need including formulas, formatting, protection. Make a change, see the bottom-line impact instantly; no frustrating round-trips to the server every time you make a change. When it makes sense, the calculations take place on the client... after all, it's a spreadsheet! Compare to proprietary web forms that support simple data queries and minimal financial logic, and that bog down under larger volumes of data forcing the user to page through multiple views and to "hit the server" many times per session to see updated values.
  
• Did we say it's a spreadsheet? Familiar, intuitive, yet secure and protected. But it's real-time. Press a button and changed values find their way back to the server where consolidation is instantaneous. No files to send around by email, no links to maintain, no macros to write and update. Compare to alternatives that force users into "Excel-like" webforms that support limited logic and functionalty, and that require ActiveX controls and Visual Basic coding to maintain.

Lowest Total Cost to Own (TCO)

Our customers who are familiar with both A3 Modeling and one or more competing products report that in every traditional category of total cost of ownership (TCO), including licensing and hosting fees, hardware costs, deployment costs, software maintenance fees, IT support, and ongoing consulting costs (and even the non-traditional hidden category of end-user productivity which can often dwarf other costs), A3 Modeling outperforms competitors between 3X and 10X.