What is the Forecasting Module?  Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used financial tools for forecasting, budgeting and other numerical reporting. Many users have invested heavily in creating Excel-based forecasting sheets that link together to form gigantic forecasting models. Unfortunately, maintaining these links have become extremely cumbersome - inserting or deleting a row in one spreadsheet has the unfortunate consequence of causing many of the linked sheets to lose their position, destroying the integrity of the entire process.

With Datavision's Forecasting & Budgeting module, you can have the best of all worlds - continue using Excel as your forecasting engine, but without the nightmare of having to maintain linked sheets. Datavision's forecasting module will "wrap" around your existing forecasting sheets to connect each sheet to the central database. This allows the "drivers" (raw data that's necessary to generate the forecast) to flow from the database to the sheet, and the final forecasted data to flow the database from the sheet. Using a centrally connected database has the added advantage of delivering the exact same information to all sheets that require the same piece of information, without manual re-entry or links. This preserves data integrity while allowing the controller can run an instant 'P&L' statement reflecting the latest forecasts during the forecasting process.