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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.

Use proDacapo ABC/M to make better decisions regarding:

The profitability of customers, products, services, sales channels and market segments

Product and service costing

Shared service costing and pricing

Business analysis and improvement

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:

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

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

Multi-period analysis

Built-in tool for easy creation of user-defined reports and charts, and for publishing them to group of users

Optional add-in component, proDacapo Power Analytics, offers OLAP functionality for fast, multi-dimensional analyses of vast amounts of data

Easy “save to MS Excel” functionality

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.

 

Screenshots:

proDacapo ABC solution screen showing costing and performance information in a business process view

proDacapo ABC has excellent charting, reporting & analysis capabilities

proDacapo ABC system screen showing costing & profitability analyis charting, analytic & reporting

proDacapo ABC has excellent charting, reporting & analysis capabilities

proDacapo ABC solution screen showing profit and loss analysis with drill back to cost driver, activity, resource and accounts

proDacapo ABC screen showing resource costings in a pie chart

proDacapo ABC screen showing activity costings in a bar chart

proDacapo ABC has an integrated intuitive Report Builder

proDacapo ABC Web screen showing departmental activity and process costings

proDacapo ABC system screen showing graphical cost flow analytics

 

 

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