Can the CornerStar Financial Mart be used as a budgeting and consolidation tool?
Yes. Our Data Model supports up to 5 financial budgets in any given year. We have utilities available to load budgets to our Financial API which in-turn sends them to the Financial Data Mart. Many clients use an Excel front-end for budget entry. Using the Cognos/Excel add-in, you can provide managers with last-year’s actuals to aid in creating this year’s plan. Another option would be to provide a custom front end for users to enter budgets. CornerStar consultants have the expertise to help with this, including creating a browser based front-end for use over the company’s intranet.