This document summarizes pcFinancial, a performance management product from DSP Canvas Planning. It provides unified financial planning and reporting capabilities that can span multiple ERP and other systems. Key features include budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analytics accessible through Microsoft Excel and SQL Server. The product takes a structured planning approach using Excel as the main interface but storing data on a SQL Server backend for high performance queries. It supports capabilities like multi-currency, multi-entity consolidation and customized spread modeling. The document also outlines how pcFinancial can be extended with additional DSP Canvas Planning modules for more advanced financial, sales, and project performance management.

1. pcFinancial
A Performance Canvas product

2. Prescriptive
(what
actions
should be
taken)
Predictive
(What likely
to happen)
Forecasting
(What Might
Happen)
Analytics available trough BI
Monitoring
(what’s
happening
now)
Analysis
(Why did it
happen)
Complexity
Business Value High
High
Low
Reporting
(What
happened)
Descriptive Statistics
Simulation Modeling
Cluster Analysis
Regression Analysis
Optimal Outcome Questions
(Potential outcomes based on complex interactions)
How can we achieve the best outcome?
What is the impact of a cold winter in our business?
Quantity Questions
How much inventory do we need to carry?
What stock levels will be left at the EOM?
What will Sales finish at this year?
Behavioral Questions
Who are my best customers?
Where are they?
What is their most likely next purchase?

3. pcFinancial – DSP Canvas Planning
– Financial
Reporting
– Enterprise
Budgets & Plans
– Multiple entities
– Simple
Consolidation
– FX support (1
currency /
entity)

4. Is pcFinancial right for you?
• System
– Epicor ERP (E9)
– iScala
– Axapta, Navision
– IFS
– Others
• Microsoft Excel
– System used and managed from within
Microsoft Excel
• GL budget out-of-the box
– Automated and Managed Budget
process in one week

5. pcFinancial Structured Planning approach
• Robust Microsoft SQL Server storage
– One version of the Business Model and Data
– Focused and less complex Excel sheets
• Finance Users still use Microsoft Excel in its full glory!
– Leverage your Excel skills
– Limited training needs
– Empowers Finance and Business users

6. Pre-defined workflow
• Budget Administrator
– Configures budget process
• Sets up areas of responsibility (submit/ approve) in budget
– Based on Organization
• Determines process & deadlines of budget cycle
• Configures validation rules in budget process (optional)
– Monitors progress in budget process
• Submitter / Budget Responsible
– Is responsible for filling out and submitting his/ her part of the
budget according to the budget process
• Approver
– Is responsible for approving submitted budgets.

7. Easy role based menu

8. Create custom spread methods
• Create custom spread methods including methods
based on history, trends and depreciation.
• Easy to work with and any spread method can be
created and published to users

9. Support for Multiple Books & Systems

10. Budget level security and user
management
• Full role based security
• Differentiate between
read/write or not visible
• All implemented in the
OLAP cubes

11. pcFinancial Key Facts
•The DSP Financial Planning Difference
 Unified Budgeting…
 Spanning over multiple systems
 Multiple scenarios
 Multi-company and Multi-currency
 Using Microsoft Excel as the main tool
 Integrated Reporting
 The flexibility of…
 Using Microsoft SQL Server AS for high performance
queries
 Data and Model stored in robust server
 Unlimited upgrade path with EPM
 Mobile Use
 Advanced multi-model applications

12. Beyond pcFinancials – the unlimited world
of EPM
• DSP Canvas Planning
– Complex Reports that combine ERP data other systems legacy project
system.
• Flash report before end of quarter with update from all regional sales
managers
– Business Modeling
• Driver based budgeting – non-financial forecasts.
– Fiscal Consolidation
• Multi GAAP, IFRS, GAAP, Minority interest, Intercompany, Complex Ownership,
Simulation of Currency & Ownership
• DSP Performance Canvas
– Key performance indicators displayed as a part of reports.
– Business Intelligence web screens for non-financial users.
– All of the above on the executive iPads.

13. Extend the model gradually
ERP Accounting
Manuellt
Entered Data
Other System
Ledgers
Historical
Data
Multi-Scenario
Planering &
What-if analysis
Time
Size
Consolodation
Epicor EPM Canvas – Complete reporting to the whole organization, © 2012 Epicor Software Corporation.

14. Line of Business
Apps
Canvas Complete - Data Warehousing
Canvas Data Warehouse
based on
Microsoft SQL Server
Sub Ledger
Budgets and Plans
Excel, Web & Mobile
Reporting
Excel, Web & Mobile
Dashboards & Analytics
Excel, Web & Mobile
Easy Configuration
Business Driven Models
ERP System

15. Reporting

16. Unified Reporting & Planning in Microsoft
Exel

18. Tablet Ready
iPad
Android
Windows 8

19. Advanced Financials Performance
Management
• DSP Canvas Planning adds
– CAPEX planning
– AR/AP Analysis
– Profitability Analysis / Expense allocation
– Advanced Cashflow planning
– FX Analysis (multiple currencies / entity, transaction
currencies)

20. Sales Performance Management
• Sales Reporting & Planning
• Territory Planning
• Quota Management
• Incentive compensation
• Sales Forecasting
– Pipeline Analysis

21. Project Performance Management
• Project Analysis
– Progress Analysis
– Cost Analysis
– Quality Management
– Closure
• WIP Analysis and Reporting
• WBS – Work Breakdown Structure
• Project Forecasting

22. Canvas Planning Data Flow
Physical Server(s) Hosting EPM
OLTP
OLTP
OLTP
ODS
ETL
(SQL)
pcDashboards, Excel, EtcpcFinancial Server: Cube ProcessingOLTP Systems
Replication / ETL Data Mart SSAS
Queries
(MDX)
SSAS
Processing
Replication Server
Other Data Sources
pcINTEGRATOR pcDATA
DSP Canvas
Planning
INTEGRATOR
(optional)
DSP Canvas
Planning DATA
(optional)
Excel add-in

23. Mobile Phone Ready
iPhone
Android
Windows
Blackberry

25. Smart navigation
With chart support and overlays
• Coloring to display values
directly in the map
• Pop up that shows additional
charts to get further drilldown
details on hover over

26. Strategy maps
• Create drawings in MS
Viso
• Flexible coloring and
navigation

27. Smart Summary Page
Age
Ethnicity
Gender
Geography
Provider
Race
Time
KPI

31. Smart Navigation
Using tree structures navigation
can be tailored further

32. Flexible, interactive display options

33. AccessDataLayerApplication
Architecture
Performance canvas CanvasPlanning
ERP
Ipad
Desktop
browser
Smart
phon
e
ExcelPdf
Dashboard
Drilldown
Designing Graphs,
Dashboards
Sharepoint
Data
modelling
OLAP
OLAP
Integration
Custom
Excel
client
OLAP
OLAP
Relational
data sources
OLAP
OLAP
Tabular,
CSV/Excel
data
Data
editorial
MS SQL Server
various
OLAP sources
Analysis
Ad hoc querying One-click publish to all devices
Collaborative
Volume planning
Budget planning
What-if scenarios
in excel and online Scripting
Online
planning gems
Fine grained data
access controls