2. Plan

Summary: Planning technologies allow managers in divisions and departments throughout the
organization to set goals, devise and model planning scenarios, develop programs, and define
budgets to support the business strategy. It also allows managers to build a set of goals for base
level accounts over various time periods. For example, enterprise-wide operational planning as
distinguished from strategic planning (which are included in the "Strategize" section) includes:
Examples/components:
• Applications that enable the creation, collection, consolidation, reporting and process
management of planning data. Plans may consist of:
o Budgets (financial plans)
o Capacity plans
o Human resource plans
o Manufacturing and supply chain plans
• Applications that allow you to communicate adjustments to plans while incorporating
actual data
o Forecasting applications
o Project and Process Planning applications
• Applications that incorporate assumptions, business rules and logic to derive results from
a set of inputs.
o Process Modeling