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Enterprise Performance Management Solution Overview
MergingTechnology with Process Expertise

Since 1993, Altius has been helping companies better understand the
data that drives their organization through our products, consulting
services and support.
We are practitioners who have personally managed hundreds of
successful business intelligence initiatives in the oil, gas and energy
space.
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Decisions ForYour Business
Our FlexMI product suite has enabled companies, both large and small to streamline the manual, time consuming business processes associated with financial
and operational data. FlexMI has been used globally for financial planning, production tracking, capital expenditure tracking and many other business function
requirements.
About Altius
Altius has developed technology solutions, that we combine with our process expertise to continually deliver strategic value in
response to changing industry demands.
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About Altius
Financial Business Process Focused
• Budgeting, planning and forecasting
• Production and reserves accounting
• Authorization for Expenditure (AFE)
• Supply chain bid management
Energy Experts
• Focused on Upstream oil and gas vertical
• Supermajor client for over 15 years
• Built the planning systems for BP’s Exploration and Production division
• Updated the financial planning system for Kosmos Energy
• BPM Partners‘Best New Vendor’for 2015
• Altius received a 4.75 out of 5 customer satisfaction rating –
outperforming our key competitors in 13 out of the 14 listed attributes.
Award Winning Product
• Over 20 years experience delivering data management solutions
• Deployments in every major country
• Over 3,000 business users globally
Established Consultants
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OurVision
We take the time to understand each client’s business
and strategic goals. Ex. bringing in cloud technology.
Align Strategy
Using a consultative approach, we partner with clients to
define their business process and apply best practices.
Business Process
We then implement our technology solutions that lay the
foundation for data integration and accessibility.
Solution
“The value of business processes has often come from consistency. As organizations move beyond standardizing to best practices and toward
flexibility and agility, analytics enables the enterprise to adjust business processes on a case-by-case basis.”
-Gartner
We couple our business-process experience with consulting thought-leadership to design a technology solution that best meets
each companies needs and strategy for today as well as down the road.
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FlexMI Platform
A powerful platform for delivering data management solutions.
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Tailored consolidation models and workflow orchestration.
Customizable
Easily bring in data from other source systems such as ERP, for
rapid multi-dimensional analysis of data.
AdvancedAnalytics
Native Excel connectivity means a user-friendly and familiar
environment. Most implementations can be completed in 6-8
weeks with minimal training.
Ease of Adoption
Audit trail an data versioning to facilitate compliance (e.g.
Sarbanes Oxley)
Compliant

Tailored Models
The business model is the heart and soul of an organization, and no
two are exactly alike
• ‘ModelAgnostic’ platform
• Data model is configured to mirror business structure
• Data stored in a self-consolidated multi-dimensional cube
• ERP integration and mapping
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Dashboard & Reports
High quality visuals and self-service reporting drive better analysis in
less time
• Web & Mobile Dashboards
• Ad hoc analysis via Excel
• Print & Presentation Ready
• Centralized standard reports
• User defined custom reports
• Underlying data accessible existing in-house reporting
investment
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Process & Security
We partner with each of our clients from the beginning, offering a consultative approach that aims to truly understand problems and
challenges in their current business process. We can then apply a workflow engine and security controls with the aim of automation
and improved efficiency.
Limitless configuration
Workflow Engine
• Multi-step approvals
• Delegation of authority
• Ad-hoc routing
• Real time notifications
Limitless options
• Fine grained, hierarchical
security
• Ensure the right cells and
formulas are locked down
Role-based Security
Full process and data audit trail
CompleteVisibility
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More often than not, we help clients uncover a wide array of gaps and issues regarding their
business processes—related to how users handle information in the present, as well as
information that will be needed and wanted for the future.

1st
2nd 3rd
4th
The number of times a user has submitted
data to the system.
How long approvals have waited in the
queue.
2nd Statistic
What departments submit budgets on
time, and which are consistently late.
1nd Statistic 3nd Statistic
4nd Statistic
Process bottlenecks tracked back to
approvers.
Discover hidden information that fundamentally affects your planning process. Create business value and a competitive advantage
through improved understanding of company data – at both the process and people level.
MetaAnalytics
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These analyses can be helpful in identifying key areas of the business process that need work or improvement, as well as identifying people
that might be consistently contributing to those issues, and finding appropriate solutions. Most EPM vendors do not provide this critical
piece of the process-management puzzle.

Dynamic Scenario Planning
Managing the unprecedented uncertainty in global energy markets requires a flexible approach and the ability to alter tactics as
market conditions change.We design solutions that help predict the future, so you can be prepared for the unimaginable. Quickly
build scenarios, adjust plans and make better strategic decisions.
• Eliminate the need to submit multiple iterations
of data to model changing assumptions
• Dynamically model scenarios in real-time
• Perform strategic prioritization & optimization
Improve Predictive
Capabilities
TURNOVER
YEAR
LowHighBase
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By using Altius’ dynamic scenario planning, you can maximize long-term value creation while avoiding expensive mistakes in
the short term.

Market Insights
By 2018, most business users and analysts in organizations will have access to self-service tools to prepare data for analysis as part of
the shift to deploying modern BI platforms. - Gartner
Financial Performance Management Solutions boost forecasting and performance analysis –The ForresterWave™
SaaS differentiates newer offerings from traditional deployments models - Forrester
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Future Proof
The market is shifting towards cloud-based solutions that deliver a shorter time-to-value and improved ease of use - Gartner
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• FlexMI can be delivered either on premise or cloud
hosted, with the ability to seamlessly migrate
between the two
• Support for modern browser, desktop and internet
technologies
• Platform adapts to changing business models
• Business user-driven administration
• License includes all major and minor version updates
regardless of deployment type
• Scalable from 5 to 5,000+ users

Use Case:The Power of FlexMI
• Evergreen budget and planning process for both corporate and business functions
• Forecast period for ‘Life of Field’ at yearly granularity with near term budgeting
• Financial & operational data stored alongside each other for full business view
• Automatic calculation of net-down, gross-up, risking, phasing
• Entire cycle is controlled by the business – including versioning, resubmission, variance
reporting
• All prior submissions available for online ad-hoc reporting
• Multiple spreadsheet templates – owned by the business – tailored for specific data
collections – e.g. different template for corporate vs. functional capex
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Use Case:The Power of FlexMI
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• Data quickly available for consolidated reporting within 10 minutes of submission
• Actuals data mapped from accounting platform and available immediately after period
close
• Platform automatically performs intercompany eliminations to allow perfect
reconciliation to actuals
• Data secured per user, down to lowest level project if required
• Ancillary system (same platform) used to generate & approve Authorization for
Expenditures (AFEs)
• Dynamic AFE approval workflow including delegation of authority
• AFE elements generated in accounting platform
• Actuals flow back into planning system with correct AFE allocation

ClientTestimonials
See what our energy customers have to say aboutAltius’ products, people and services.
“ FlexMI is nimble enough that we can
make updates and still deliver accurate
data. There’s no doubt this will help us
compete better in the industry.”
“My favorite aspect of working with
Altius is the level of service provided to
me. Each time I reach out to my Altius
representative, I’m dealing with a very
informed consultant.”
Corporate Planning and
Finance Advisor
Kosmos Energy
Oil & Gas ProjectTeam Lead
BP
Sr. Planning Analyst
Kosmos Energy
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“ AFETracker has shortened the
process of reviewing, approving and
signing AFEs by more than half.”

Vendor Comparison
Altius prides itself on providing a significant cost savings compared to larger Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) vendors.
Our Software as a Service (SaaS) model allows us to offer a pricing structure that eliminates costly implementation fees, software
licenses, and annual maintenance charges.
Licensing Consulting Implementation
Chart shows the Altius solution Flex Planning compared to Oracle Hyperion for an on premise deployment of 25
business users.
Oracle HyperionAltius
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Shorter time-to-value & improved ease of use
• Fast implementation
• LowTCO
• Simple licensing
• Complimentary implementation services
• Complimentary professional services

We provide key resources to help drive innovation for your
performance management activities.
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Thank you
We look forward to helping finance own the role of Business Partner, by bringing in technology
that transforms business processes.
2245Texas Dr., Suite 150, Sugar Land,Texas
Phone : +1 832 476 6250
Email : info@altius-usa.com
www.altius-usa.com
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