Sales Forecasting software

Would you like to improve your company's sales forecasting?

Do you need sales forecasting software that will help your forecasters generate better, more defensible forecasts?

 Are you struggling with complex, difficult to maintain forecasting spreadsheets and manual processes?

Prophecy is a sales forecasting software solution aimed at helping business forecasters produce better forecasts

Prophecy will transform your sales forecasting process.  Your forecasters will be able to produce defensible sales forecasts, more quickly, more effectively and with none of the tedious manual processes associated with forecasting in spreadsheets.

Prophecy will help you spot inaccurate forecasts as they are entered.   Single-click sales forecasting accuracy analysis will help you learn from your mistakes earlier.  Prophecy's powerful update and report screens will help you quickly identify and understand developing trends at any level of product and customer detail.

You will be able to immediately see the financial impact of your forecast changes at any level of product and customer aggregation.  Within one, easy to use system you will be able to productively plan/re-plan sales, prepare budgets, forecast/reforecast, monitor, review and report.
 
Prophecy's design is based on many years of 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.  The software is developed and supported by Data Perceptions, a UK technology company established in 1998.

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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 happen to a predictable pattern through time.  If you view forecasting as a critical business process rather than a complex mathematical exercise, Prophecy is the sales forecasting software to support that process!
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 able to use Prophecy.
• Please read our sales forecasting case study to learn how one company implemented Prophecy.  Or read 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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