Would you like to improve your company's sales forecasting?
Are you struggling with complex, difficult to maintain
sales forecasting spreadsheets and manual processes?
Prophecy
will
transform your sales forecasting.
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You will be able to produce
defensible sales forecasts, more quickly, more effectively and with none
of the tedious manual processes
associated with using spreadsheets for sales forecasting.
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Prophecy
offers far more
relevant functionality for business
sales forecasting than solutions which naively throw
statistical algorithms at the task and offer little else to help the
forecaster.
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Prophecy
is naturally multi-user and was designed from the ground upwards to
allow multiple forecasters to simultaneously forecast their customers or
products.
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It allows forecasts to be made not just for volume, but
also for selling prices, cost of goods etc. and all this data is
available over a full hierarchy of products and customers.
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The
Prophecy
database retains any number of years of history and can also present comparisons with budget at any level of product, customer
and time detail. That way, the forecast becomes more visible
within the business and more actively integrated with business plan
monitoring, customer profitability analysis, sales analysis and
reporting etc.. Managers
at all levels are able to see, understand, implement and monitor the
business plan.
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Forecasters and managers will be able to identify and
understand trends as soon as they start developing, spot inaccurate forecasts as they are entered
and instantly quantify the financial impact of forecast
changes at any level
of product and customer detail on the overall sales plan.
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Single-click sales forecasting accuracy analysis will help
forecaster identify and learn from mistakes earlier. Prophecy
will help you avoid making the same mistake twice!
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Empower your forecasters to productively forecast, plan and re-plan sales, prepare budgets,
forecast/reforecast, monitor, review and report, all within a single,
easy to use system. Get more accurate forecasts and more
controlled delivery of the company plan.
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Prophecy's approach to forecasting is based on many years of
successful, hands on, full time sales forecasting
experience in major companies, as well as the valuable feedback of many Prophecy users
in the UK and across the globe.
View our on-line
product tour, go direct to the 'Benefits
and Features' page, download
a demo system or call 01494 785574 (UK) to talk to a Prophecy expert
now!
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Proven sales forecasting
methodology...
- In the real world, throwing
100's of statistical time series forecasting methods at the sales forecasting
problem is inappropriate. Promotional and competitive peaks and
troughs and other events which cause massive short term variation do
not generally follow to a predictable time pattern. Promotions
and competitive activity are highly variable - it is naive to expect
a statistical algorithm to either predict these peaks and troughs or
to accurately identify a true, underlying base rate of sale. If
you view forecasting as a critical business process which requires
intelligent interpretation of known events and trends by
knowledgeable business managers rather than a complex mathematical
or statistical exercise then Prophecy is the sales forecasting
software for you!
- Prophecy gives your business managers
the right toolkit to productively translate the sales and marketing
plan into defensible, multi-level
sales forecasts.
Your business managers are the people who are closest to what is
happening within their customers and are in the best position to
translate this knowledge into an actionable forecast.
They need to be able to quality check their forecasts as they enter
them, to monitor progress versus the plan, to react quickly to
market changes, and to easily identify and learn from their forecast
errors. Prophecy gives them all these checks and features in a
single, easy to use package.
- Remember that a business forecasting process typically requires
checking and adjusting the forecasts for future
periods, based on the latest actuals versus forecast and known
changes to plans, the market environment etc.. You don't
actually
want a new statistical forecast to overwrite the existing forecast
with a brand new one. Therefore, whilst Prophecy does have
great statistical
forecasting capabilities, its particular strength is in helping the
forecaster adapt and make better sense of his or her existing
forecasts as part of a business-wide sales forecasting process.
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Click here to learn more about Prophecy's approach to building better
sales forecasts...
Easy to use...
- All our customers confirm that Prophecy is the easiest to use sales
forecasting software solution they've seen. If your users
can use Microsoft Office products then they will be comfortable
using
Prophecy.
- Please read our
sales forecasting case study to learn how one company implemented
Prophecy. Or read a collection of real
user quotes about the benefits obtained from Prophecy, made once
the system was up and running.
- You can assess Prophecy's ease of use and power right now.
Click
this link to view our
zero-install, self-running
on-line demos in your web browser.
Integrate forecasting,
business planning, tracking and reporting...
- Volume forecasting should be integrated with financial
forecasting, ongoing sales analysis and review versus plan, so that
everyone is managing to the same operational and financial goal.
- Prophecy lets you integrate volume demand forecasting with revenue
and profit contribution planning and monitoring. Track forecasts versus Budgets
and previous years
within the same system for quantity, weight, revenue, gross profit or any other measure
you need. Encapsulate the budget / plan / forecast
/ monitor / re-plan cycle within a single system.
- Use your own range of business measures for selling prices, costs,
alternate unit measures such as weight or litres etc.. All
these 'facts' are modelled in Prophecy over your full
hierarchy of products and customers.
- Forecast. Then compare sales to date and future forecasts
with previous years, budgets or targets using Prophecy's integrated
pivot table style reporting, analysis and forecast update screens.
At any combination of detail for products and customers.
Easy to implement
and deploy...
- Prophecy is an 'easy win '. It is focused on a high-profile,
specific business area, is a self-contained sales forecasting and budgeting
solution and is exceptionally easy to implement. Most organisations
will get a positive ROI from Prophecy within the first year.
- Load your historical actuals etc. via flexible 'learn by example' imports from
any ODBC/OLEDB source or via delimited text files. No rekeying
required!
- Prophecy runs on any Windows platform, including Vista and
Windows 7. It fully supports multiple
user read-write operations against a single Prophecy database.
It has no technical dependencies on other databases or software, other
than the ability to source historical data from your core systems.
- However, if you prefer to store your Prophecy database in a
Microsoft SQL Server database instead of Prophecy's native database
format then that too is possible.
- Prophecy's granular security model allows by product, by customer, by measure
level security to be applied for each user.
Developed in the UK.
Used across the world...
- Prophecy is developed by
Data Perceptions, a privately owned UK company. In addition to customers in
the UK we have users within Europe, Asia and also in Australia.
- Prophecy can be implemented quickly. We can provide consultancy
and training to help you optimise your implementation, either on-site
or via the internet. Typical implementation timescale is from 2
to a maximum of 10 days, including training, depending on the
complexity of your database, data sources etc.. Please contact
Data Perceptions if you would like to discuss this element, or any
other aspect of Prophecy further.
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