SAS^® for Performance-Based Budgeting

There are several ways to link budget information to performance measures and vice versa. Regardless, maximizing taxpayer dollars through effective resource allocation, program management and accountability is the ultimate goal.   In the Spotlight Doing More with Less: Ten Ways to Get the Most out of Your Resources in the Public Sector Join Dr. Peter Turney to learn how to deal with budgetary pressures and rising costs in the most efficient way possible. Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency of DC protects public with innovative technology CSOSA was awarded the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Award for Government at the recent SAS Executive Conference for Government. View video. (5 min.) SAS for performance-based budgeting provides a comprehensive solution that integrates costs, program performance criteria and budget information, giving you a clear picture of your organization and helping you move forward with confidence. With SAS, you can integrate all phases of the performance-based budgeting process: formulating budgets, managing appropriations for execution and reporting on results. With industry-leading capabilities in data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence, SAS for performance-based budgeting gives stakeholders’ intelligence that they can use throughout the budgeting process. The combination of SAS Strategic Performance Management, SAS Financial Management and SAS Activity-Based Management creates the only solution flexible enough to integrate with any performance management and budgeting framework, so users can mix and match concepts and strategies. SAS for performance-based budgeting scales with your existing operational infrastructure, enabling organizations to: Focus limited resources on the most critical and important outcomes. Automate the budget cycle to provide accurate, timely information about financial and program performance. Proactively administer programs, while tracking and monitoring progress against published objectives. Understand and communicate critical issues and priorities relative to budget requests and the use of resources. Start where your needs are greatest, with multiple points of entry, and realize immediate results. SAS for performance-based budgeting provides a component-based architecture that addresses the evolving budgeting needs of your organization. SAS not only helps strategically manage data but also enables the analysis, reporting and sharing of your critical budget and performance information.

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