PowerPlaner - planning, forecasting tool for Microsoft Excel PowerPivot (commercial)

PowerPlanner is a planning, forecasting tool for Microsoft Excel PowerPivot. It's a powerful and affordable budgeting and modeling solution for businesses, who want to increase their productivity and add advanced what-if modeling capabilities to their planning process.

Technology

PowerPlanner works as an Excel-Addin, using Microsoft Excel as the front-end, and PowerPivot as the built in in-memory OLAP engine.

PowerPlanner does not require a bulky and expensive enterprise-scale database back-end, using the lightweight and free Microsoft SQL Server Express as the database engine, it can run on a single notebook.

PowerPlanner extends standard OLAP functionality provided by PowerPivot with proprietary blazing fast Direct-to-SQL writeback feature and row-level data security.