ExPlan Technology for Strategic Planning - Powersim Solutions - Simulated Based Strategic Solutions Company

Wednesday, March 10, 2010


	ExPlan™
	ExTrain™
	Studio™

Products

Our proprietary tools bring the benefits of simulation models to businesses effectively and efficiently:

Powersim ExPlan™ is our innovative strategic planning tool.

Powersim ExTrain™ is our simulation-based management training and strategy communication tool.

In addition, we offer the leading SD simulation software, Powersim Studio, and we teach workshops in its use for business.



	ExPlan™
	ExPlan™ is Powersim Solutions’ proprietary and innovative simulation-based environment for scenario planning and strategic enterprise management. It is our exclusive technology platform for delivering planning solutions, which adds power, flexibility, and speed to your strategic planning process. It allows you to project future changes in your organization and design policies to cope with them based on a comprehensive computer simulation model of your business structure, strategies and industry structure. It provides you with the ability to focus on corporate goals, define your business scenarios based on perceived strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and experiment with alternative strategies by allocating resources in a risk-free simulation environment. ExPlan™ connects to corporate databases for access to real time data for planning. ExPlan™ can be implemented in an organization either as an Executive Dashboard™, Strategy Analyzer™, or Dynamic Controls™ .
	Key Benefits

	Some of the key benefits of using ExPlan™ as a simulation-based scenario planning and strategic enterprise management tool include the ability to:

	Test business strategies before committing resources Simulations help reduce the risk associated with implementing new strategic initiatives by allowing managers to experiment with alternative decisions in a simulated business environment. Reduce the annual planning cycle With a Powersim simulation, executives and senior managers can collaborate online to create and evaluate business strategies against various possible scenarios, dramatically shortening the time to develop an annual plan. The plan can be continually updated. real-time data feed for strategic decision-making Powersim simulation solutions utilize enterprise data stored in databases, ERP systems, and spreadsheets. User interfaces can display both historical data and simulated future data. Get a systemic (holistic) perspective on analysis By including customers, employees, internal process, competition, culture and values in the simulation, the analysis provides a complete view of your current operating environment and future outlook.

	Features and Technology

	The key features of ExPlan™ make it possible for organizations to use a dynamic simulation model as an integral part of their scenario planning and strategic enterprise management process, by providing them with a structured approach to:

	Determining and setting business and management objectives. Developing scenarios that characterize the environment in which a company conducts business and the forces and factors that influence the business. Assessing and managing risks and uncertainties associated with different scenarios. Defining an arsenal of strategies representing a wide range of business decisions. Analyzing the performance of selected strategies run against likely scenarios in the simulation model. Selecting the optimum strategy to implement against a chosen scenario by comparing the results of multiple simulations of each strategy/scenario pair based on defined management objectives. Sharing data and collaborating with key operatives in the strategic planning process throughout the enterprise on a web-based architecture.



	Built on Microsoft .NET technology, ExPlan™ interacts with simulation models through Powersim Studio™ SDK. It utilizes key features of .NET technology to deliver robust and scaleable applications that can be deployed under various options from a single system to multiple servers. All programs are Windows Forms applications that can be delivered and easily maintained over the web without the use of a browser. This provides the end-user with a rich, interactive experience while also centralizing data management and simulation execution. Download ExPlan™ technical document (PDF, 464kb)

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