True Sky™ Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting is a powerful and flexible solution that helps organizations manage and streamline their planning process. The basic philosophy of True Sky™ can best be described as:

Budget in Excel, Manage in SharePoint, Store in SQL Server.

Budget in Excel
True Sky allows end users to enter planning information in a familiar and easy to use tool – Microsoft Excel. While other products promote their “Excel like” look and feel, the True Sky interface is Excel and therefore provides all the traditional Excel functionality users have come to expect. In addition, True Sky provides a set of integrated tools specially designed to speed the planning process and aid the user with their assigned tasks. Some of these include:

• Spreading/Calendarization of Values
• Mass Adjustments by Dollar Amount or Percentage
• Attachment of Detailed Notes, Explanations and Attachments
• Automatic Build Up of Detailed Line Items
• On-Line Review and Approval

Manage in SharePoint
Designed with the Finance and Operations groups in mind, once initial installation and configuration has been completed, the planning process can be as independent from the IT group as desired or as allowed by corporate policy. Since the process is centrally controlled within SharePoint, organizations avoid the traditional pitfalls traditionally associated with other planning solutions. Whether it is creating entry templates, maintaining user access, configuring security, generating assignments or managing the process; the Finance or Operations groups can assume total ownership of the system. Some of the administration features available within True Sky include:

• Global What-If Modeling
• Unlimited Versioning
• Integration to Most ERP or Line of Business Systems
• Support for Hard Stop or Warning Validations
• Insight to the Complete Process at Any Point in Time

Store in SQL Server
All planning related data is stored in SQL Server. Not only does this allow the solution to scale to large number of users, it ensures that this critical data is being handled per to corporate policy, backed up and instantly available for analysis.

Powerful reporting and analysis of your planning data is available from within True Sky. However, should you so choose, any of a number of commercially available analytical/reporting tools such as Excel, PowerPivot, SQL Reporting Services, SharePoint, Cognos, Tableau or Qlikview can also be used.

True Sky Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting is currently available for on-premise deployments with a hosted option (private cloud or Microsoft Azure/Office 365) available in the near future.