Sales and Operations Planning | S&OP | integrated business planning | sales forecasting | demand planning

Planning Breakthrough: True Collaboration and Seamless Planning Using Steelwedge Enterprise Enabled Excel (E³) ™

By marrying its powerful sales planning and performance management platform with Microsoft Excel, Steelwedge has created a true Duet. No more Excel hell with dueling spread sheets flying from one department to another and everyone wondering who has the latest version.

Upgrade your manual spreadsheet planning process with Steelwedge Enterprise Enabled Excel (E³) technology - an interactive, real-time planning solution that leverages the usability and analytic capabilities that planners depend on, while incorporating the power of a truly collaborative enterprise-class application.

Imagine a planning and forecasting environment using Microsoft Excel coupled to with a world-class, highly scaleable, server-based enterprise planning infrastructure. You get all the advantages of Excel without the complexity, long learning curve and inflexibility of a traditional enterprise application!

Imagine a single planning application that offers ease of use, familiarity, power, flexibility, aggregation/disaggregation, qualitative notes tracking, waterfall reporting, offline capabilities, internal and external collaboration, security, salability, drill down, data integrity, reduced data latency, and an archived Plan of Record.

The Steelwedge solution uses Excel templates supplemented by Internet Explorer (web browser-based) “pop-up” windows as the presentation interface to deliver a powerful next-generation planning application that leverages AJAX. Web Services, and XML technologies. E³ represents a radically new approach to managing your Excel-based planning process. The promise of a true Duet here today!