Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting Business Solutions

As digital transformation reshapes the business world, the challenge for today’s leaders is to be able to make fast, data-driven decisions with speed and agility, leveraging technologies to set their businesses up for success. 

Complexity and change have outgrown and outpaced siloed systems and static planning. Competitive advantage derives from connecting insights and plans to decisions and results going forward, and to match resources with strategy, streamlining the business budgeting processes and reacting with agility and efficiency.

The business-as-usual budgeting process, traditional in inputs and standard in approach is no longer up to the task.

Lánluas has developed strategic partnerships with best-of-breed global vendors to underpin our integrated planning solutions.

Integrated Business Planning – The holy grail of decision making

As markets become increasingly competitive, success is dependent on the agility of businesses: their ability to react quickly and make fast, effective decisions. But when faced with the task of planning complex and often global multilevel processes, organisations typically find themselves with disconnections between strategy, finance and operations. 

The result is a mountain of spreadsheet-based plans, which are created independently by different departments without visibility of their impact on the rest of the business, compromising the company’s ability to achieve its goals. 

Lánluas’ team of business analysts and process champions will help to drive the best solution for your business. Our functional expertise sets us apart: We have a deep understanding of best practice processes and can align this to your legacy or TechnologyOne environment as required.

Integrated business planning solutions driven by Lánluas will help to drive visibility, accuracy and efficiency, offering a flexible and scalable base for unified strategic planning, budgeting.

Lánluas’ planning, budgeting and forecasting partners

Board International – Integrated Planning and Reporting

Lánluas Consulting in collaboration with Board offers a modern planning software that integrates strategic, financial and operational planning, enabling full control of performance across the organisation and revolutionising decision making.

Unlike spreadsheets, Board’s multidimensional planning environment is based on a single shared data repository and offers data validation, workflow, enterprise-class security, audit trail and versioning capabilities. This enhances the control and efficiency of the entire planning process – making it fully reliable in terms of results and significantly less onerous in time and resources. In this way, Board enables an integrated business planning approach.

Make your planning agile with Lánluas and Board’s dynamic data model

The software offers the ability to directly modify the data model during the planning or forecasting process, throughout the entire integrated business planning process flow. A new business unit, a new product, a new market or a different investment can be inserted in a controlled way during a planning cycle, simulating the effect of a new scenario on the whole business model. Furthermore, structures and relationships can be changed at runtime, providing unparalleled flexibility in building and maintaining any planning application.

Plan and analyse in real time

In-memory technology delivers outstanding performance in aggregating, spreading and running calculations on large data sets with complex business models and thousands of users. All changes to data are automatically spread across dimensions and hierarchies, providing an instant picture of the overall impact of any single variation.

Based on the same unified metadata layer, all the applications, reports and analyses are updated in real time, maintaining a single version of the truth across the entire Board environment and creating a fully integrated planning supply chain.

Take advantage of cutting-edge data entry capabilities

A powerful set of advanced features provide unparalleled flexibility and effectiveness for data entry processes, while ensuring full data reliability.

Create sophisticated business rules without coding

The planning software procedures engine allows users to effectively model key business processes by easily configuring a set of prebuilt rules – with all the necessary operations to implement company-wide planning, forecasting and simulation applications. This delivers a truly integrated business management approach and helps to drive businesses towards a digital office of finance.

Manage unlimited scenarios and versions

The software enables the generation of unlimited plan versions and scenarios, such as operating plans and financial plans, making it easy to track the evolution of forecasts and plans over time and to compare them with results.

These budgeting and forecasting tools and financial forecasting software make it easier than ever for business users to produce powerful forecasts and insightful analyses to accelerate the decision-making process.

We are delighted to have Lánluas as our latest partner to service and grow our client base. Their skills and experience in local government combined with Board technology will enable customers to maximise the advantage of our proven solutions designed for companies that increasingly require accurate and informed data in the hands of users for critical real-time decision making.

Chris Wilkins, Director – Partners and Alliances A/NZ Board International

Anaplan – Integrated Planning and Reporting

Global volatility is at an all-time high. In this constantly changing landscape, corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) teams need to quickly adapt and forecast multiple scenarios on a rolling basis with flexibility and speed. They need to be in sync with budgeting planning across your business in real time to develop plans and forecasts that reflect the reality of today’s challenges.

Learn how Lánluas, together with Anaplan hyperscale computing for corporate FP&A, connects signals, plans and adds resiliency across your organisation with best-of-breed budgeting and forecasting software, financial forecasting software, financial planning software, business budgeting software and budget planning tools.

Key Benefits

• Reduce cycle time and effort of planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Take control and own the process, eliminating dependence on spreadsheets and IT.
• Drive a collaborative big picture with connected plans across finance, sales, operations and HR.
• Increase accuracy and target achievement with driver-based models, real-time calculations, and automatic rollup across plans and reports.
• Increase plan precision with broad collaboration and point-of-impact participation.
• Seamlessly align the strategic plan, the corporate plan, the annual budget, and the periodic forecast with both top-down and bottom-up methodologies.
• Jumpstart time-to-implementation through prebuilt accelerator apps and forecasting software for planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation and reporting.

With the Lánluas and Anaplan solutions, business leaders can see edge-to-edge across their company, easily align and achieve business and technology goals.

The modern enterprise is no longer a collection of autonomous units – it’s a unified entity that functions best when decision makers are given immediate access to all relevant information. The Anaplan platform makes this synchronised action a reality.

Put an end to siloed work and uncertain outcomes. Anaplan is hyperscale computing applied to your operational insights, forecasts and business strategies. Designed to solve your challenges with clarity and collaborative power, the platform makes it possible for companies to succeed at any scale of complexity.

Lánluas and Anaplan will help you convert constant change to your advantage.