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Global Leading Activity Based Costing
System
proDacapo ABC/M is a
powerful, proven, and easy-to-use
solution for Activity Based Costing / Activity Based
Management, well known for its user-friendly and extensive
suite of analytical and reporting options.
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Use proDacapo
ABC/M to make better decisions regarding: |
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The profitability of customers, products,
services, sales channels and market segments |
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Product and service costing |
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Shared service costing and pricing |
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Business analysis
and improvement |
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Resource allocation
and expense allocation |
Easily scalable, the
system can be run as a local solution or as a global corporate
installation. It is easily integrated with your
current IT environment to provide consistent and periodic reporting
of ABC/M information every month, quarter or for the period of
your choice.
Unlike any other
costing solution on the market,
proDacapo ABC/M empowers
you to take full advantage of Activity Based Costing methodology,
cost tracing and expense allocation technology – with
far less effort. proDacapo ABC/M can save large organisations
many hundreds of thousands of dollars in set up and maintenance
hours, and is easy for small companies to use too. Better still it
generates easier to analyse and action results !
Features
and Benefits:
“Very logical solution” is
a frequent comment from customers and consultants. The solution
makes it easy
to work with ABC/M – even if the organisation is complex.
Fast, flexible implementation and easy maintenance – Smart
and flexible functionality makes it easy to rapidly implement
proDacapo
ABC/M. There are no limitations for costing models in your ABC system.
The solution provides the most robust, yet easy-to-use modelling
capabilities on the market, allowing you to create costing models
and profitability analysis views that
reflects reality.
Easy-to-understand overviews, analyses and reports
make it easy to rapidly validate costing models and the results. The
solution also includes smart functionality for minimizing the time
needed for adjusting your Activity Based Costing / Expense
Allocation models due to organizational changes
and other influential factors – this is important in times
of constant changes.
Ease-of-use – Users quickly learn how to work in the system
and it is easy to use. And to make it even easier, you can customize
the terminology in the interface to match your in-house vocabulary.
Integrated process mapping tool – The solution includes
an integrated process-mapping tool enabling rapid modelling and
visualisation of processes, activities and their related costs.
This is unique to proDacapo ABC/M.
Concurrent users –
Many users can work in the system simultaneously,
setting up the model, updating data and analysing information.
Full traceability – Full traceability is important if users
are to understand and rely on the information. The system enables
you to fully trace the ABC cost for any product or combination
of products, customers or sales channels. proDacapo ABC/M shows
you exactly how the ABC cost is built up by different cost drivers,
processes, activities and resources – all the way back to
accounts in the general ledger.
Powerful and user-friendly analysis and reporting – Your
organisation will only get results with ABC/M if the information
is used to make better decisions. proDacapo ABC/M therefore provides
an extensive suite of powerful and user-friendly analysis and reporting
options. Some examples of the options available:
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More than 150 standard
costing and profitability analysis reports, analytical
charts and grids with powerful capabilities for selection,
filtering, grouping, drill-down and drill-back |
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Full multi-dimensional analysis on costs
and profitability with any combination of products, customers
and sales channels or any other dimensions relevant for your
organization |
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Multi-period analysis |
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Built-in tool for easy creation of user-defined
reports and charts, and for publishing them to group of users |
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Optional add-in component,
proDacapo Power
Analytics, offers OLAP functionality for fast, multi-dimensional
analyses of vast amounts of data |
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Easy “save to MS Excel” functionality |
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The solution is also easily integrated with
your existing IT systems for reporting and analyses in these
systems |
Analyses and reporting via the web – With the optional add-in
component, “proDacapo Web Solution”, you can give users
of your choice easy access to analyses and reports via their standard
web browser.
Easy “save to MS Excel” functionality – It is
very easy to send data to and from MS Excel with proDacapo ABC/M.
Easy to integrate with existing IT systems –
proDacapo ABC/M
includes an ETL tool (Extract, Transform and Load) that makes it easy
to integrate the solution with your existing IT systems and databases
for periodic and automatic updating of the ABC/M information in
proDacapo. It is equally easy to update your existing IT systems
with information from proDacapo ABC/M.
Efficient handling of vast data volumes –
proDacapo ABC/M
handles vast quantities of data very efficiently, minimizing the
time needed for calculations. This means that organizations with
huge numbers of customers, products, and orders can get ABC information
regularly and with the amount of detail they need.
From local to global installation –
proDacapo ABC/M is a
scalable application based on modern technology and market-leading
database engines. This means that it can be installed as a local
stand-alone solution up to a global installation with an unlimited
number of users.
More solutions for Enterprise Performance Management –
proDacapo
ABC/M is part of our integrated software suite for Enterprise Performance
Management. This also includes world-class products for Process
Management, Interactive Business Planning, and Balanced Scorecard.
Download the proDacapo
ABC/M brochure and fact sheet for more information.
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