To help you to link strategy to operations, Pace allows you to integrate all of your processes in your Hyperion platform.

The reason is that as targets set at the strategic level move to the management level and ultimately to operations, the complexities of integrating them into the various planning processes only grows. A CEO who sets a simple 5% growth target for Earnings Per Share (EPS), while assuming a 3% reduction in costs, unknowingly sends a shockwave throughout the company. Individual planners scramble to integrate those assumptions into their plans while trying to stay true to strategic targets. As a result, their processes become more unique and the inflexibility of a one-size-fits-all planning solution becomes exposed.

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.

Pace solves this dilemma by providing both flexibility and integration in one Integrated Business Planning solution. With it, planners are able to maintain corporate strategy as the key input while coordinating across discrete planning processes that are dependent upon each other. Pace ensures that all planners have the right tool for the job, right down to the most unique and complex operational processes.

Integrated Business Planning requires a solid foundation. Hyperion is the industry-leading BI Platform and Pace complements that suite of applications by providing an advanced calculation engine that enables complex business modeling. Pace eliminates renegade processes by bringing users a web-enabled, multi-dimensional spreadsheet that is configurable to their processes and fully integrated with Hyperion.

Pace fills the functionality gaps within companies' planning environments. The result is the integration of people, processes, systems, and information to maximize the return on your corporate performance management initiatives.