Palladium Pace™
Palladium offers a highly-configurable software platform for planning and budgeting designed to support your business process.
Do you have a great platform for planning and budgeting that helps you link strategy to operations, but do you need a highly configurable solution that supports your unique business process? Are some areas forced to "copy" final plans from Excel into planning software?
Today, most companies live with a 70/30 status quo. That is, 70% of their planning processes can be supported by existing capabilities within a planning solution, while 30% are simply too unique, complex, and/or costly to be integrated into their existing planning framework. The 30% users are left to fend for themselves. So they turn to what they know best: the spreadsheet. And why not? Spreadsheets give them what they need most – flexibility. What they often don't realize is that flexibility will create more work, complexity, and a lack of true integration. A disruption within one user or functional group within the corporate-wide planning process can have a significant impact on timing and quality of what is produced.
If your answer is "yes" to any of the questions above, you will likely find that no solution will fit your business needs like Pace. Pace provides planners with a powerful yet easy to use business modeling and planning tool. Unlike traditional planning applications, that assume distributed planning where one person plans their department or a few departments, Pace supports the individual who must plan hundreds, or even thousands of cost and/or profit centers. These centers may represent product lines, stores, sales channels, brands, field sales representatives, or any number of other examples. In these cases, a unique set of characteristics are required for efficient and accurate planning—one that by definition is different than those of distributed planning systems.
Palladium’s Pace technology evolved over a seven year period from Palladium’s experience implementing custom planning solutions at many of the world’s most successful companies. Often Palladium was asked to supplement larger packaged planning solutions that could not support unique centralized processes, leaving those planners with only Excel and forcing them to copy their final plan into the planning package, actually adding to their workload. Palladium addressed this gap. Presenting an entirely new approach, Pace provides configurable process support that supplements your current planning and budgeting platform. Palladium clients demand a competitive advantage from their planning processes, and Pace fulfills that demand.
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