We are an IT service provider and are looking for new software for controlling, business intelligence, and planning for our group of companies. As part of the decision-making process for a new solution, we would like to know which provider has the most intuitive interface when it comes to planning and comparing multiple scenarios (and combinations of scenarios for each business area). We require a high degree of flexibility when introducing new products and services, each with very different business models and therefore different calculations and key figures. In addition, payment terms, depreciation, and subsidy conditions must be very flexible to enter, but should still be modeled so that we do not have to manually update everything every month.
The software should meet the following requirements:
- Import accounting data structured by cost type, cost center, and cost unit from the existing accounting system
- Actual calculation of balance sheet, income statement, and liquidity
- Short- and long-term planning of balance sheet, income statement, and liquidity (all rolling)
- Contribution margin calculation per cost center, cost center group, and area
- Plan/actual comparison
- KPIs, trend analyses, and presentation in reports
- Simple scenario planning (switchable with comparison)
- It is very important to have a high degree of flexibility when entering payment terms; a single variable (e.g., payment received 30 days after sales received) is completely unsuitable for us; for example, we spread payments for sales from 2020 over the following three years
- Easy to use; We have two established business areas and two start-ups under one roof; plans and KPIs must be able to be adjusted quickly
- There are numerous funding projects with different conditions; it would be advantageous to import the actual hours worked by employees per project and automatically calculate the funding subsidy from this (e.g., we receive a 35% or 60% funding subsidy on the verifiable project hours worked)
- A desirable requirement would be to import probabilities from the sales funnel of sales controlling for liquidity and P&L planning – but this is not essential.
Two software workstations are required.