Budgets and Forecasting: With Alight Planning, you cut budget and forecast cycles in half and measurably improve analysis of the numbers and insights into the business. Difficult planning issues — for example, converting budgets into rolling forecasts, managing the collaboration process, maintaining driver models, and integrating actuals — all are handled seamlessly. Alight changes the planning experience by delivering innovative structures and interfaces that make budgeting and forecasting effective processes — heavy on analytics, light on maintenance.

Long Range Planning: Alight Planning lets you create any type of long range or strategic financial model — with fewer errors and with a seamless transition between strategy and operational budgets. Features include flexible and customized time periods, easy to use modeling interfaces, and automated balance sheet.

Scenario Analysis: Alight incorporates the most robust feature set of any planning package for managing scenarios, a fundamental requirement for budgets, forecasting and long range plans. You can create and compare up to 100 different scenarios and switch between scenarios in real time. You can also change values and underlying structures across multiple scenarios in a single operation, a huge time saver when analyzing many scenarios
in one session.

Reporting: You can set up any type of standard or ad hoc reporting with “slicing and dicing” of the data by as many as eleven custom dimensions. Using dimensions and allocations, you can select filters for real time profitability analysis by business unit, product, customer or region. You can also create highly formatted reports and assemble them into “report books” for export to Excel and PDF.