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Better Budget Forecasting For SaaS Companies

Better Budget Forecasting:  Software as a Service (SaaS) companies have little to zero margin for error. You’re tasked with satisfying current customers while acquiring new ones, and with keeping operating costs low while supporting growth. And you have to make sure sales figures are closely aligned with recurring revenue plans. To make sense of it all, you need the best budgeting software that's as robust and innovative as the software you offer your customers. You need Adaptive Insights, the world’s most usable cloud corporate performance management (CPM) application.

 

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Architect your future with Adaptive Insights

The market leader in cloud-based forecasting, reporting and business budgeting software, Adaptive Insights models your business, so you can navigate change with an active planning process. It helps you plan, forecast, monitor, and analyze your software, subscription, and service performance. Here’s how:

Align revenue plans with corporate objectives

With Adaptive Insights, you can set revenue goals based on historical data, business drivers, and growth objectives. In addition, you can plan monthly and annually recurring revenue (MRR and ARR) streams from new and renewal software subscriptions. Revenue waterfalls can be used to model recognition timing for subscriptions and services. And strong integration lets you incorporate ERP and CRM sales data for a comprehensive view of your revenue.

Get insights from software KPIs to grow customers

Adaptive Discovery, from the Adaptive Insights Suite, provides intuitive dashboards to continuously visualize and explore subscription revenue metrics, such as MRR and ARR, annual contract value (ACV), and average revenue per account (ARPA). This lets you accurately plan investments in marketing, development, and sales. You can also track and gain insights underlying customer metrics, including customer acquisition costs (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), churn and renewal rates, to better understand how to grow and retain customers while reducing acquisition costs.

Forecast subscription, renewal, and services bookings with accuracy

Use Adaptive Insights to create a holistic bookings forecast for new subscriptions, renewals, and services. You can set subscription sales targets in sync with your sales and services teams, plan bookings by business cohorts, and use sales capacity scenarios to determine headcount needs to meet quota. Then compare the sales forecast with actual bookings using variance reports. With Adaptive Insights you can accurately forecast, track and adjust your bookings, and project your sales growth.

Confidently plan hosting, sales, and operating expenses

Plan the expense of your software operations with expense budgets based on targets, roll ups of personnel, and cost-of-sales (COS) data. Adaptive Insights also makes it easy to model sales rep compensation and productivity, accounting for on-boarding ramp rates, and forecast commissions based on varying attainment scenarios. It lets you budget ongoing hosting and other operating expenses (OPEX), and determine project capital expenditures (CAPEX) for new and growing data centers. With a complete picture of SaaS expense planning, you can increase margins through the reduction of CAC and ongoing support costs.

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Improve sales and revenue forecasting for your business

Adaptive Insights is budgeting software designed for SaaS companies. It improves sales and revenue forecasting for your business, and delivers insights that help to improve customer retention and reduce churn while reducing acquisition costs. Let the experts at Arxis Technology help you put Adaptive Insights to work for your company today.isualize and explore subscription revenue metrics, such as MRR and ARR, annual contract value (ACV), and average revenue per account (ARPA). This lets you accurately plan investments in marketing, development, and sales. You can also track and gain insights underlying customer metrics, including customer acquisition costs (CAC), customer lifetime value (LTV), churn and renewal rates, to better understand how to grow and retain customers while reducing acquisition costs.

Forecast subscription, renewal, and services bookings with accuracy

Use Adaptive Insights to create a holistic bookings forecast for new subscriptions, renewals, and services. You can set subscription sales targets in sync with your sales and services teams, plan bookings by business cohorts, and use sales capacity scenarios to determine headcount needs to meet quota. Then compare the sales forecast with actual bookings using variance reports. With Adaptive Insights you can accurately forecast, track and adjust your bookings, and project your sales growth.

Confidently plan hosting, sales, and operating expenses

Plan the expense of your software operations with expense budgets based on targets, roll ups of personnel, and cost-of-sales (COS) data. Adaptive Insights also makes it easy to model sales rep compensation and productivity, accounting for on-boarding ramp rates, and forecast commissions based on varying attainment scenarios. It lets you budget ongoing hosting and other operating expenses (OPEX), and determine project capital expenditures (CAPEX) for new and growing data centers. With a complete picture of SaaS expense planning, you can increase margins through the reduction of CAC and ongoing support costs.

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Adaptive Insights is the best budgeting software designed for SaaS companies. It improves sales and revenue forecasting for your business, and delivers insights that help to improve customer retention and reduce churn while reducing acquisition costs. Let the experts at RKL eSolutions help you put Adaptive Insights to work for your company today.

Mark Severance

Written by Mark Severance

Mark is based in the Los Angeles area, working as the Sales Director for Sage CRE at RKL eSolutions. Mark leads RKL eSolutions customers through the buying process, helping them decide on the best Sage CRE solutions and configuration to suit their business needs.