SAS Intelligent Performance Management Features List
What-if scenarios
- Rapidly create what-if scenarios that can vary costs, drivers, volumes and even workflows.
Advanced drivers & attributes
- Basic, evenly assigned, percentage, weighted, sequencing, bill-of-cost, sales volume and calculated drivers.
- Text, numeric, calculated and dimensional attributes for reporting and analysis.
Capacity costing, modeling and activity-based budgeting
- Model available capacity versus used or idle capacity.
- Conduct what-if analysis for resource planning.
Modeling method independence
- Activity-based costing (ABC)
- Time-based ABC
- Top-down, quantity-based assignment
- Bottom-up, consumption-rate modeling
Advanced modeling, drivers & attributes
- Basic, evenly assigned, percentage, weighted, sequencing, bill-of-cost, sales volume and calculated drivers.
- Text, numeric, calculated and dimensional attributes for reporting and analysis.
- External and internal bills of cost that can be linked directly to an account.
Budgeting & planning
- Rolling forecasts.
- Driver-based, top-down and bottom-up budgeting.
- Enterprisewide collaboration.
- Workflow control.
- Budget-cycle seeding.
Dynamic consolidation
- Bidirectional, dynamic, secure link to the common data repository.
- On-demand access to actual and planning data.
- On-demand consolidation for enhanced what-if scenario modeling.
Accounting logic
- Support for multiple accounting standards and consolidations.
- Manual journal adjustments.
- Balancing rules.
- Allocations.
- Automatic time aggregations (e.g., year to date).
- Roll forward of retained earnings.
- Multiple exchange rate sets.
- Currency translation adjustment for single and multiple accounts.
- Calculated rates ( e.g., cost per product).
- Classifies and tracks changes to source data from external systems or data entry forms.