Features
What Makes Open Pace So Powerful?
- N-Dimensional modeling
- Lock and Spread across any number of dimensions
- Ability to easily perform Top-Down, Bottom-Up, or Middle-Out planning
- Planning Flexibility
- Inverse Calculation capability: Solves for all variables within an equation
- Supports "unplanned" planning: Users can simultaneously change any number of metrics (Dollars, Units, and/or Percents).
- Flexible planning view configuration (extremely configurable)
- Performance
- Calculations are fast since they take place in-memory, not in the Essbase cube.
- Optimally designed to perform cell-based calculations
- Manages large quantities of data within a single Open Pace planning view
- Open Reporting
- All stored plans reside in Oracle Essbase which supports a number of reporting tools and extraction methods.
- As Microsoft Excel is the front-end for Open
Pace, a user's plan view can be
easily reported there.