Unified Performance Management (UPM)
Imagine holistic business planning that breaks apart functional silos. Strategic, Financial, Operational performance and fin consolidation.
PILLARS
The 4 Pillars of UPM
Align short-term and long-term strategic planning with ease so that you can drive the organization exactly where you want it to go.
Deep financial analytics that give you an objective view of the health of your organization.
Build the right operational processes and workflows that will keep you on the right track
Close up your financials easily and efficiently, in line with statutory requirements.
APLIQO
How the Apliqo UPM suite can help you
Apliqo Solutions embody best practices in financial & operational reporting and planning. On day one, the Apliqo UPM Suite makes critical information accessible, connected and understandable for business users – clearing the way for collaborative decision making and faster consensus.
Whether you need just one component or the entire integrated solution, Apliqo is here to help. We’ve worked with organizations of all sizes and in a wide variety of industries which makes us well placed to assist with your FP&A needs.
PROCESS
The 7 step process to UPM implementation
Discovery
Work with an Apliqo consultant to analyse your current organisational management, challenges, and desired results for your UPM journey.
Gap Analysis
Engage in a guided workshop where Apliqo will help you assess gaps in your systems, and whether our software can assist. We’ll advise on best practices and give you our advice on how to move forward most effectively.
Solution Design
Once the bare bones are in place, we work with you to create a longer-term implementation plan that talks directly to the initial gaps that were identified and the desired final results that you’re looking for.
Implementation
Our team will then implement the UPM solution in an agile manner, keeping you intimately involved in every step of the process.
Training & UAT
We’ll then help to train you and your team on how to use the software most effectively, and we’ll run a range of end-user acceptance testing to ensure that the training has been successful. The goal here is to make you self-sustaining.
Go-Live
We’ll go live together, supporting the initial launch and helping to rectify any last-minute obstacles that arise.
Support
We’ll provide ongoing support as you use the UPM framework so that you’re never walking this journey alone.
METHODOLOGY
Streamline collaboration between business functions
Apliqo and Planning Analytics with Watson (TM1) streamline your organizational planning and analytics by unifying all the various components that play a role. This includes departmental headcounts, detailed salary planning, cost center budgets, inventory forecasts, supply chain data, balance sheet analysis and much more.
Collaboration between all these different teams is easier than ever before and it drives the enterprise towards achieving the long-term high-level goals set as part of the company strategy.
Unified Planning
→ Holistic and cohesive planning powered by collaboration.
Scenario Analysis
→ Identifies risks and upside potential depending on certain parameters.
Driver Base Planning
→ Focuses planning activity on the factors that truly matter.
Unified Platform
→ A single platform that acts as a single source of truth.
Top-Down & Bottom-Up Planning
→ Aligns high-level strategy and on-the-ground operations.
FEATURES
Key features of Apliqo's UPM methodology
Deploy Apliqo solutions in the Cloud or On-Premise. Leverage your IT infrastructure or the power of IBM Cloud.
Our pre-built Apliqo Unified Performance Management Solutions are designed for fast implementation and high end-user acceptance.
Proven financial and operational PM methodologies available out-of-the-box. Add your specific business logic to the solution to make a perfect fit.
Modern Web-based Reporting and Dashboard engine, enabling fast deployment of enterprise ready reports.
Powerful analytical OLAP engine powered by IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) combined with a modern User Interface so you can get to the bottom of any issue.
Pre-built and real-life tested best practice planning methods available for all modules, to reduce planning effort and increase forecast accuracy.
Take charge of reporting and planning. Manage them efficiently with adaptable workflow processes.
Tailored for any company size or industry. Give the power of analytics to your business users.
Share insights that align people with common goals and maximum performance.
Don’t replace Excel, embrace it and connect it to our powerful functional database powered by IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) for real-time data access.
Be productive on the go and wherever you work. Every Apliqo module is mobile friendly and truly mobile ready!
Whether you want to do full-year budgeting, in-year forecasting or rolling forecasting, Apliqo provides you with pre-built best-practices to get there quicker.
