Industrial strength budget development tools. Industrial strength consolidation capability. Full modeling and activity based costing and budgeting capability. Resource allocation processes and new product introduction processes supported by software. Full executive information systems reporting with features such as exceptions analysis Tracking of hypotheses and lessons learned Rapid configuration and change capabilities.
Most organizations have four types of users for performance information.
First, there are the front line users of the performance information. Their access to good performance information can change the way they look at their role and activities in the organization. In an operating environment such as manufacturing or continuous process manufacturing the information in ARM is used for hour to hour and day to day management. Second, there are the more analytical power users . They are the individuals that use the poweful and diverse information in ARM to develop models and do complex investigation.