Flexible OLAP platform for Corporate Performance Management

Do you still rely on spreadsheets for planning, budgeting and forecasting? Professionalize your existing spreadsheet solutions, ensure compliance and add new efficiency and accuracy to your financial processes with MIS Alea!

• Say goodbye to spreadsheet chaos - MIS Alea provides an optimal software platform for planning, consolidation, reporting and analysis. Business professionals work with the Excel environment and functionality they know and trust. Behind the spreadsheet interface, however, lies a powerful multidimensional database, which provides easy access to information in a corporate data warehouse or transactional systems.

• Single version of the truth - Since data are stored in a central database and not in local files, MIS Alea minimizes typical spreadsheet shortcomings such as manual rekeying, time-consuming consolidations and the risk of human error.
  
  
• Easy to use. Easier to maintain. - Most databases have been developed as IT tools and require advanced programming skills to run the simplest of queries. MIS Alea, however, is designed for business professionals. To browse your data, you just drag and drop the desired elements into an Excel spreadsheet. With a double click you can zoom in to details on the desired element.
  
• Tried and true technology - OLAP Survey 5, an independent study of 2,100 software implementations in 71 countries, has recognized MIS Alea for high user satisfaction, excellent goal achievement rates and fast implementation times for the second year in a row.
  

Key features:

• Simple modelling -You can also create new or modify existing models within the Excel environment. This helps keep the software in sync with changes in company, department or product structures without requiring IT support.
  
  
• Built-in business intelligence for planning and budgeting - Its flexible modelling features and Excel interface make MIS Alea an ideal platform for financial applications. Test multiple planning scenarios quickly by automatically allocating your budget down to any desired level of detail. Once you are satisfied with your results, just write back your finalized budget into the database, where you can later access it to compare variances with actuals.
  
  
• Follow your business rules - You can also set up business rules to reflect interdependencies, such as between a profit & loss statement and a sales budget. Since calculations are performed in real-time, you can immediately see how a possible sales rebate would impact your bottom line.
  
  
• Beyond budgeting to comprehensive performance management - MIS Alea provides a common platform for corporate performance management such as enterprise planning, financial consolidation, balanced scorecard, risk management and subsidiary management.