Supercharge Power BI with Planning & Writeback

Get the power of real-time, collaborative data-collection, forecasting, commenting, and what-if scenario modeling, with the ease of a filtered spreadsheet* all in one place.

*it's like working in Excel, but in Power BI!

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Operational Planning

  • Sales Planning
  • Supply Chain Planning
  • Driver-based Modeling
  • Rough-cut Capacity Forecasting
  • Variance or Threshold Reporting

Custom Apps(Click-not-Code)

  • Commenting on data points
  • Data Quality & Classification
  • Approval Workflow
  • Audit log monitoring
  • ANY Data Collection process

Financial Planning

  • FP&A
  • Long Range Forecasting
  • Revenue / OPEX
  • Variance Reporting
  • Integrated Business Planning

Why Planning & Write-back in Power BI?

Because to compete in today’s world you need to connect Analysis, Decisions, and Action. That means Analysis has to be more than read-only dashboards, drilldown, and ‘export to Excel’. It means enabling your people to Analyze, Enter Plans, even Manage Data, all in the same place.

Adding Power ON to your Power BI, you can do just that.

Expertise Across Industries

Analyze & Model

Take analysis to the next level. "What-if we cut costs/sold more?" No more export to spreadsheet required! Analysis and what-if scenario planning unified in one place.

Build & Plan

Assemble your data for planning, generate scenarios, and enable writeback. Add Drivers, KPIs, and Approval Workflow to further streamline your most critical data collection processes.

Share & Collaborate

Connect decision makers across the org to analyze and plan in Power BI using Excel features they know. Leverage existing security & multi-user models to jump right in with confidence.

Decide & Act

Take action inside Power BI, right where you analyze, model, plan, and collaborate. You’ll bring decisions and actions to life faster that maximize impact and drive real results.

The Power ON Toolset

Visual Planner

  • Scenario Planning
  • Commentary on data points
  • Master Data Management
  • Prediction (AI/ML)
  • Workflow/Approval
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Power XL

  • Table
  • Matrix
  • Forms
  • Reporting
  • All Excel features (not VBA)
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The quality of the Power ON documentation ensures that it’s a straight-forward process.  Adding write back functionality to any Power BI dashboard is just a matter of drag and drop.  The configuration settings for the extension object provide great flexibility, allowing you to customize how the end user will interact with the dashboard. End users love the added functionality Power On brings to their dashboards, and the number of use cases is continually growing.

Paul Leech, Senior Data Analyst
Mater

A Few of Our Happy Customers

What Our Customers Are Saying

“Power ON Visual Planner is one of the most interesting and effective forecasting tools our leadership has seen.”

Travis Buckingham, Director of Finance & Accounting Data Strategy
Stewart Title

“Power ON BI opened new opportunities for analysts, managers, and customer representatives to collect data and make annotations directly from the Power BI interface. Missing or incorrect data from Salesforce can be seamlessly augmented from the same application serving support resources.”

Sr Manager, Reporting & Analytics
Fortune 50 Global Software Company

“We now confidently present timely, accurate reports to senior executives with much less effort, using Power ON inside Power BI.”

Carolina Deutschbein, BI Manager – Controller
Buyin

Some of our Expert Partners from Across the Globe

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See what you can do with write-back and planning in Power BI

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What's New at Power ON

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insightsoftware Acquires Power ON, Integrating Operational Planning Solutions with Microsoft Power BI

Software will complement insightsoftware’s budgeting and planning solutions for enterprise customers who leverage Power BI RALEIGH, N.C. – February 8, 2023 – insightsoftware, a global

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Feb 08, 2023
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