CHALLENGES
Apliqo UX addresses the challenges of End Users
Unfamiliar User Experience
If users can’t interact with your FP&A solution in ways that are familiar and intuitive, they are much less likely to use it. And the notion of requiring users to go through advanced training and certification just to be able to get value from the system is not going to work over the long term, especially with the wider impact of losing acquired knowledge every time an employee leaves the company.
Human Errors in Planning Tasks
What often stops companies from opening their FP&A solutions to more end users is the fact that the more people work in them, the more errors you can expect to find. It requires a variety of guardrails such as data validation, prompts, and built-in best-practice workflows to help mitigate this and allow for a wider end-user base to contribute.
System Rigidity Doesn’t Allow for Custom Configurations
If your FP&A interface is rigid, it might not cater to your company’s unique processes, workflows, and design. This creates the need for manual workarounds and additional effort to standardise reports and visualisations. In fact, it even begins to shape how end users think about problems because they need the solution to fit into a potentially sub-optimal paradigm.
Visualisations are One-Dimensional
If your data visualisation capabilities are not sophisticated, it makes it difficult to achieve data-driven storytelling that can influence internal and external stakeholders. It also discourages people from digging into the data, leaving more decisions to the whims of anecdotes rather than a foundation of accurate and timely data.
Lack of Compatibility with Excel
Modern FP&A has moved past Microsoft Excel, but there are still legacy processes and stakeholders that still use the ubiquitous tool. If your FP&A system is unable to integrate this data efficiently and instead requires complex mapping procedures, it can cause real headaches for end users.
OUR SOLUTION
Apliqo UX makes your FP&A solutions much more accessible and user-friendly.
Built-In Best Practices
Industry-leading standards are built right in, allowing your end users to leverage them and achieve great results without having to reinvent the wheel.
Design-Agnostic
Apliqo UX can be configured to match your unique design language and preferences so that all outputs are standardised in terms of format and presentation.
User-Friendly
Apliqo UX is easy to use right out of the box, with no complex training required.
Modern and Familiar
Built on modern web frameworks, Apliqo UX feels familiar straight away and this leads to higher levels of engagement across a vast array of different stakeholders.
Device-Agnostic
Apliqo UX can be used across all devices providing unlimited flexibility and accessibility, wherever you are.
Secure, governed, compliant
Permission levels are granted on roles and duties to allow for strict control of investment actions and data governance – enabling better
