OutlookSoft Differentiators

You will find that many systems cover the basics fairly well but there are differences between them that can be crucial. Our analysis was conducted a few years ago for a seminar presented at the Financial Technology Show. We will endavour to provide an update to our analysis in the near future.

Corporate Performance Management

OutlookSoft includes strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, business intelligence and scorecarding (linking goals and objectives to corporate-wide key performance indicators, or KPIs).

Unified product

All OutlookSoft functionality is available from a single application rather than multiple systems as you may find with competitors. A unified product leads to less training and real-time access from all modules within the system.

User Interface

ou just need to know Microsoft Excel and Internet Explorer.

Excel

You download data over the internet to Excel, make all your changes in Excel and save it to the central database (not on your PC).

Security

Security is at the dimension, level or cell level.

Portal

You can build a portal without being a programmer that communicates performance.

Knowledge Management

You can attach notes and documents as supporting documentation.

Integration tools

OutlookSoft also contains mapping rules that are maintained using Excel.

Writeback

You can update OLAP cube directly within the system.