Collaborative Decision Support

Option Explorer has the data loading, modeling processing, control and presentation capabilities that are critical to decision making across business functions. Option Explorer™’s concurrent modification and merge capability enables a multi-user “sandbox” environment to support simultaneous interaction with up-to-date data. Users prepare data, define assumptions, perform analytics and create “what if” business scenarios relevant to them based on a single collection of data. Users determine if they will keep or publish their changes to others without compromising the system performance and data quality.

The Option Explorer Platform supports workflows necessary to support ongoing planning processes such as S&OP, Integrated Business Planning and Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting, and other instances of collaborative decision making. Option Explorer enables sharing and communication of the planning processes with impacted users so they can take immediate action with confidence.

Benefits

• Faster, more accurate planning cycles using the most current data, with full visibility to cross functional impacts
• Transformation steps are tracked through KPIs
• Focus on the factors that ensure the greatest impact on the outcome