1. EiB Financial Analytics 2018
Presented by Paul Martin, Managing Director EiB

2. What’s In EiB Financial Analytics 2018
Application Hosting
Budgeting & Forecasting
Power BI Integration
User Interface Enhancements
A La Carte -> EiB
General Dialogue Boxes Improved & More Information
Report Headers Single Line
PCI Compliance
TLS 1.2
Train Of Thought Analysis
Multi Versioning Of All Reports, Dashboards, EVERYTHING !
Pivot Table Synchronisation
Better Navigation Of Large Dimensions
Support SQL Server 2017

3. Why the need for Budgeting and Forecasting?
Report from PWC – 69% of financial executives surveyed named budgeting and forecasting an improvement priority in finance
“most finance executives heartily agree that the time and effort expended on the most mechanical tasks associated with budgeting and forecasting—tasks like data-gathering, reconciliation, and consolidation—would be better spent on more valuable activities.” PWC
“A fully integrated performance management framework is essential to provide corporate visibility of the activities that directly deliver growth, and provide a clear framework for determining how to continuously allocate resources to support the strategy.” KPMG

4. Sage need for Budgeting and Forecasting?
15 out of the last 22 EiB Financial Analytics prospects have highlighted a need for Forecasting to be incorporated in the Financial Reporting process
Massive existing costs & compromises
Manual Effort
Only Do Once At High Level
Requirement Often Detailed At Quarterly / Monthly Level
From a competitive perspective, EiB Financial Analytics is the ONLY Sage focused product solution for :
Sage 200
Sage 500/1000
Sage X3

5. Generating A New Budget / Forecast

6. Processing The Cube As A Finance Admin

7. Clearing Existing Budget / Forecast

8. Budgeting & Forecasting Data Entry Reports

9. Budgeting / Forecasting Process
Audit trail of changes written back to EiB Analytics including user / date time / dimensions / values & member details
EiB Analytics Audit Trail Table
MS writeback gets recreated using audit records.
Committed changes written back to SQL writeback table
EiB Financial Analytics Cube
Data capture in reports
MS Writeback Table
SQL writeback table used in subsequent cube updates (gets recreated from EiB Analytics audit table)
Committed changes
written directly to cube
Writeback
Partition

10. EiB Financial Analytics Power BI Integration

11. Report Headers Single Line

12. Train Of Thought Analysis

13. Larger Dimension Handling
A La Carte 2015
EiB Analytics 2018

14. Multi Versioning Of Reports

15. Summary Of EiB Financial Analytics 2018
Big Release
Hosting The Biggest Element & You Can’t See This !
Budgeting & Forecasting Important Evolution
Power BI Offers More Analytical Features Plus Web / Mobile Deployment
Commercially Available December 2017
Plan Your Release
Talk To Us
Support Wise
EiB Analytics 2018 and A La Carte 2015 Supported
A La Carte 2014 and 2013 No Longer Supported

16. EiB Financial Analytics 2018
Presented by Paul Martin, Managing Director EiB