Planning and budgeting.

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CODA Group, a global provider of financial accounting and procurement software, has extended its financial intelligence suite with the launch of CODA-Planning, a major new consolidation and planning solution. The company says the addition of CODA-planning, powered by cognos [R] technology, will help businesses close the traditional planning gap by providing full budgeting, forecasting and consolidation functionality that integrates directly with their existing financial accounting and procurement solutions from CODA. CODA is Cognos Finance's first global partner, combining Cognos' business intelligence technology with CODA-Intelligence.

Key CODA-Planning features include push-button statutory and management consolidation, top-down "what-if?" scenarios, bottom-up business driver planning, balanced scorecard analysis, multidimensional slice-and-dice, self-service reporting and full trend analysis. These features, CODA...