Building a system requires feeding Alacrity Results Management information that it will use to structure its representation of your business. All of these can be done in batch through the importing of spreadsheet or flat files or manually using end user configuration tools. If you make a mistake, you can easily modify the system. No database redesign is required. Once the system's structure has been defined, you may then import the data into the system, e.g. this year's budget, this year's actuals, next years's budget, etc.
Planning systems using a question and answer interface take a little longer to construct.
Adding a custom question and answer front end might add 1-4 weeks to this phase. They are generally added after the validation stage. ARM projects generally draw upon multiple information sources. They also offer views of the organization that have not previously been easy to produce. Clients normally examine the data to confirm that they have set up their views of their business correctly.