In which markets is Prophecy most appropriate for forecasting sales?
Prophecy is especially appropriate for the following sales forecasting scenario:
- Where short to medium term forecasting is vital input to purchasing, production and inventory as well as controlling and monitoring delivery against budgets.
- Market is volatile and hard to forecast. Lots of promotional activity / competitive activity.
- The '80:20' rule applies - i.e. 80% of your business goes to 20% of your customers. And, these are the customers which are hardest to forecast because they are the ones who run the big promotions etc. and where competitor activity is most intense.
- The Major Account Managers or Marketeers are the people in your organisation in the best position to forecast these customers.
- You want to provide non-technical business users, such as Major Account Managers, with an easy to use tool to productively plan their sales....
- ... whilst at the same time allowing management to easily apply a 'top down' review and analysis process, possibly extended to revenue and profit by Prophecy, versus recent running rates, previous years and budgets.
- Where more than a volume perspective is required and planning for sales and profit as well as getting the volume forecast right, is a strategic goal.
Prophecy will allow you to do all these things, is competitively priced, easy to implement and maintain and proven. The business case for Prophecy is compelling, based on features, fit with difficult to forecast real-world markets, ease of use /implementation and costs.
If you don't believe us, please call for a demo, view the on-line demos, or download the Prophecy Evaluation System.
Technical benefits
Prophecy delivers multi-user read-write access to a single Prophecy database without the need for 'sub-cubes', massively simplifying the consolidation and maintenance overhead associated with other multi-user sales forecasting software.
Prophecy is an 'out of the box' solution with no third party dependencies. It has its own, high performance database which is optimised for multi-user, multi-dimensional concurrent read-write operations. In addition to blistering performance, the technical simplicity makes support and maintenance easy because it all comes from a single vendor.
Prophecy can read data in from any ODBC / OLEDB data source or via delimited text files. Data can be exported out from Prophecy in similar formats.
All database management is automated, using Prophecy Scripts and the Prophecy Database Manager application.
Your users can access Prophecy databases directly over your LAN or via the web. The Prophecy Client running in 'web mode' generates 'under the bonnet' http: communications with your web server. Therefore remote users have access to exactly the same functionality as local users. (We believe this is unique within the sales forecasting software marketplace.)
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