BI & Analytics Whitepaper Smart Financial Analytics Solution The Market Need Financial Planning and Analytics (FP&A) often turns out to be a resource-intensive and time consuming process of gathering information spread across a multitude of disconnected spreadsheets or systems used by various teams like finance, sales and operation. There is a dearth of integrated solutions available in the market that could meet the demands of financial planning, analytics and reporting job. So it always ends up using many software / tools for doing these tasks. End-users are invariably non-technical and find it challenging to use multiple softwares, which can also be time-consuming. Spreadsheet reporting is widely used with OLAP warehouse cubes. These reports need to be refreshed manually on a regular basis, making the task more complex. The Solution Smart Financial Analytics Solution is an integrated solution developed by Hexaware that provides intelligent and advanced automation features for financial planning and analytics demands within a single interface. This solution makes a Financial planner’s life easy and helps to achieve faster results. The Benefits Provides integrated, easy-to-use features within a single add-in based interface ControlSheet automation for creating, configuring and refreshing bulk spreadsheet reports from different OLAP sources, in one go Only tool in the market that can perform intelligent currency calculations, aggregation in planning process, automated drill through analysis and ControlSheet automation Maximizes productivity of FP&A teams Eliminates dependency on multiples tools for planning, analysis and reporting tasks