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Forecast Smarter and Faster With Planful AI Projections

Planful AI features Projections, designed to create accurate, actionable forecasts and budgets by analyzing historical data and leveraging advanced machine learning.

Forecast Smarter and Faster With Planful AI Projections

Empower Teams With Actionanable, AI-Driven Budgets

Creating forecasts manually and building budgets from scratch invites errors and pulls teams away from more strategic work. Planful AI Projections leverages historical financial data and advanced machine learning to generate outputs infused with seasonality and trends, while built-in guardrails reduce bias and increase accuracy. With innovative, purpose-built AI, you’re empowered to move beyond the tedium and start collaborative planning immediately.

“We chose [Planful AI] to analyze actuals versus historicals, to provide scalability to our business as we grow. We can rely on Planful AI to indicate to us where we need to spend our attention and where we don’t.”

Robby LeBourveauDirector of Finance at ProMach
 

How Planful AI Projections Empowers You

  • Intelligent Forecasts Using Seasonality and TrendsFree the business from creating granular estimates from scratch. Planful AI Projections gives you an instant helping hand to kickstart the process by generating scenarios based on department-specific data.
  • Pre-Populated Templates and Guardrails To Reduce BiasDeliver realistic, data-driven inputs using Projections to analyze historical data to guide and accelerate planning and budgeting efforts. With upper and lower guardrails, it helps temper errant assumptions, unrealistic expectations, and reliance on copy-and-paste budgets.
  • Better Decisions from Better Scenario PlansGive teams the confidence to act with intention as Projections removes the guesswork to generate more accurate forecasts and budgets with less effort. Simplify comparisons across plans and estimates while focusing tight on what matters most.

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Accelerate Budget Cycles With Faster, Smarter Baseline Creation

Projections reduce the “blank page” anxiety, by quickly building more accurate baselines that reflect the organization’s unique seasonality and trends across revenue, cash flow, balance sheet account figures, annual plans, and more. You get a fast track to a trusted starting point, so there’s more time to collaborate with the business on achieving your stretch goals.

Plan Expenses and Revenue Scenarios With Greater Accuracy

No matter the business’s volatility, uncertainty, or scale, it’s easy to analyze vast and complex datasets to uncover meaningful hidden trends for business units, products, locations, and more with Projections. Deliver more accurate forecasts at any level of granularity for nearly any financial performance management insight to see where the right investments will have the most impact.

Assess and Understand Variances Quickly

Leverage Projections to generate insights that focus collaboration on exceptions and variances. Validate assumptions, guide business estimates, and fine-tune future forecasts. You get a clear view of deviations from projected outcomes automatically highlighted so you can take data-driven corrective actions.

Elevate Financial Performance Management With Planful AI

Plan with accuracy and speed when you have Planful AI Projections at your side, ready to assist. Improve planning outcomes, make better decisions, and eliminate tedious manual effort so you can spend time where it matters most. Your data is always secure and never used for training.

Empower your entire organization to make smarter, faster decisions with Planful AI

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