23 December 2012

Prophix ad hoc reporting

Getting to grips more with the ad hoc reporting of the Prophix forecasting software.  With a bit of practice it is getting much easier to compare actuals, budgets and forecasts sliced and diced in different ways to give overviews or spot variances.  I remain really impressed by the way detailed (hidden until needed) lines can be added in the explain changes - invaluable in explaining changes.  The reporting of this detail is not good so far but a fix is on the way.  For the moment, budget managers continue to be wowed when I drill down and show them that the reason a number looks odd is that I have incorporated a change that they asked for a few weeks before but have since forgotten about.

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