Five Ways We Change the Game
We know it; every salesperson is coming at you with the same pitch, about the features and benefits of their fund accounting and human resources solutions. They’re all the same, with the same can’t-live-without functionality and best-thing-since-sliced-bread capabilities.
We’re different.
Sure, we offer what you would expect in an accounting program, but with so much more. And that doesn’t even begin to include what we can deliver AFTER you purchase BudgetSense. But here’s a look at some of the above-and-beyond features in BudgetSense.
We change the game.
Smartgrids
Imagine having complete control over how you personally see information in your financial system. Or, being able to create quick and easy reports on-demand with the ease of drag and drop technology and all of the standard Windows-based filters and sorts. BudgetSense Smartgrids deliver this power to your fingertips! Laid out in Excel-like displays, all of the important information you need to query is yours for the taking, using the tools and logic you are already familiar with!
Position Inventory and Controls with Complete Payroll Encumbrances
Don’t be fooled, most systems out there view position control as something separate from your standard payroll and human resource functions. Not BudgetSense! Create your approved budget of FTEs or the number of positions allowed by role, within a department or school, and rest assured that you can maintain complete control over vacancies, position changes, and hiring throughout the fiscal year. In addition, with full, and true, wage and benefit encumbrances that liquidate ONLY what they should as each payroll is processed, never be caught off-guard again as budget dollars become scarce toward the end of the fiscal year.
What-if Union Contract Modeling
Fear union negotiations no longer! With seamless integration of salary schedules and step and grade tables, you can easily run any combination of wage changes during the contract negotiation process, for as many years out as you wish, ensuring all parties understand the impact any contract changes will have on the budget. The best part? Once contracts are finalized, you can automatically import agreed-upon wage changes into your upcoming budget, and instantly update payroll and personnel records with the correct compensation amounts.
Point and Click Microsoft Excel Integration
Batman wouldn’t leave home without his utility belt of gadgets, nor would a finance person give up the power of Excel! Sure, we all use it, but who wants to worry about re-keying important information from their financial system into a spreadsheet? Or worse yet, have to maintain two, separate sources of data that can easily get out of sync? With BudgetSense, those worries are eliminated. With quite literally a SINGLE mouse-click, any grid of data can be instantly exported into Excel, maintaining the format of the data, for additional analysis.
Other key areas of the application allow imports of data back in from Excel (Have department heads that prepare budget requests in Excel? Don’t waste a single second re-keying that information into BudgetSense!). And finally, use the integrated ExcelSense tool to dynamically publish data from your general ledger into virtually any spreadsheet to ensure that your numbers are consistent and up-to-date!
Employee Web-Access to BudgetSense
Let’s face it; to be efficient, you have to eliminate redundant tasks, and deliver key information to the appropriate parties that help your organization run. But how can you cost-effectively place system access in the hands of the right people? Costly licenses, disparate networks, or other IT challenges can seem almost insurmountable.
BudgetSense’s integrated web-based component, WebSense, helps you blast through the obstacles. Now, any key resource that plays a role in your business functions, from general ledger, to purchasing, to accounts payable, to personnel, to payroll, or approvals of any nature, can gain access to what they need securely, simply with a browser and Internet connection. Beyond that, your employees and vendors can review all of their important information online, submit change requests, and, as a result, improve information, reduce calls, and end needless distractions to your scarce resources.