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I work for a $50 million manufacturing company. I wanted to use another budgeting tool other than Native GP. Is there anything out there that is less expensive than Forecastor but still as good?
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Sorry it took me so long to respond.
We had previously used excel and the budgeting managers loved the experience from a UI (user interface) and UX (User eXperience) standpoint - i.e. they were familiar with the interface and the overall experience of it since it is a familiar UI leeds to better satisfaction, fewer input errors, less training requirement, etc.. The downside is that to fully implement a robust excel solution, you have to have someone at the switch tweaking and rolling up the information which is timely.
Forecaster, while probably ok for very large beaurocratic organizations, does not lend itself to changes during the budgeting process. combine this with the massive bugs that we experienced that inflated our reported budget in 2008 vs the REAL budget (it was off by more than 5% due to calculating benefits for people that didn't exist).
I only know about Solver what i've read and my implementation team has shared with me - it is excel based, but has a direct feed linked into your ledger system (works with SAP, Dynamics, and a slew of others if you belive the marketing) which is another hole from the Forecaster standpoint. Forecaster probably works great if you have the backend infrastructure to support it, but it wasn't worth the investment we made into it and our "microsoft shop" office hated the UI as well as the result.
HTH
Hi there
We are considering implementing forecaster (we use Miscrosoft Dynamics SL for our financials but budgeting currently done using excel) and I was interested to see your comments. What kind of problems did you have with it? What is "UI and UX"? Is "Solver" compatible with Microsoft Dynamics?
Thanks
We have Forecaster installed and are completely abondoning it - i would NOT recommend using it as it has quite a few bugs in it. The UI and UX are very lacking. i've checked out budget maestro and it is very accountant focused - if you budget by the controller or some one of that skill level doing the budget, it might work for you. we are presently evaluating solver and it looks promising.
for this round, we're using custom excel files with rollups in Sharepoint and the usabiilty is great for the managers submitting their budgets, but the risks of error is obviously higher.
he i want to know who can help me to get software about airline system.
i still can get the info about detail of creadit card.. to help me for my business .. can any one help me... give me some data..
I would recommend Microsoft Forecaster.
http://www.microsoft.com/forecaster/default.mspx
It integrates with Dynamics GP and with Microsoft FRx.
-- Hope this helps. Rick Tenorio, MCDST [MSFT]Microsoft Corporation **This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.**
i want to know how to go derectly to sistem if we want to no about the creadit card function to get the ccv no. and the detail of person completely...
can u tel me how u can do for your manufacturing company...
I use Native GP- haven't found anything else, but that doesn't mean it's not out there!
I'm no expert in Forecaster/budgeting, nor anything to do with pricing.
I've heard good things about XLBudgeter from Solver USA.and about Budget Maestro. I'll talk to my colleague who works with these products and see if we can provide a little more insight.
HS
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