A No-Code Business Intelligence Platform Making Financial Planning & Analysis Easy
Industry
Finance
Robust Data Importing
A Brief About the Product
Analyst Intelligence is a Financial Planning and Analysis platform. It makes business budgeting & forecasting just a cakewalk that even non-tech users can unlock the capabilities of a multi-billion dollar organization.
It enables better data-driven decisions and improved financial performance, making sophisticated analytics accessible to everyone.
No Code ETL Platform Saves 80% of time in Financial Planning & Analysis
A Holistic View of the Core Product Idea
Problem Statement
Having led the FP&A industry for over a decade, our client identified critical gaps in existing tools, hindering the efficiency of FP&A professionals on multiple parameters. Here are the main issues that led to the Inception of this product Idea:
Heavy onboarding and setup expenses and time were required.
Solution Overview By Client
After recognizing the persistent challenges faced by FP&A professionals and associated companies, the client conceptualized an innovative product to address these issues comprehensively with following key features:
A user-friendly tool that requires no coding expertise.
Simplified and easy onboarding experience.
A fair charging model based on actual usage, eliminating upfront costs. SaaS offering at a reasonable and fair price point.
Efficient Cost Management to optimize costs for users and align them with tool utilization.
Goals Set to Logiciel/Product Roadmap
To create a SaaS MVP with Multi-Tenant Cloud Infrastructure offering a very intuitive & easy-to-use User Experience for the following features of FP&A industry as No-Code tools:
The Process – From an Idea to MVP
Product Discovery Phase
Why does a finance guy have to learn to code, while data scientists are moving to no code?
Why are ERP software like Oracle or Adaptive Insights so complex that it’s part of the hiring considerations?
Why are we paying so much money for a tool and we still need to hire a team just to maintain it?
Why can’t we just hire the person with the most passion for Finance?
Prototyping
This process underwent several iterations based on client feedback. It took our design team approx 3-4 weeks to build the expected high-fidelity prototypes, which included:
Data importing module
No-code ETL tool
Forecasting Modules (Modeling)
Reporting Tools / Post Backs (editors)
Process Automation
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MVP Development
In our pursuit of creating the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), we focused on key objectives:
No-code tool for data importing, transformation & mapping for continuous import.
Handling a variety of data for importing from various sources.
Dynamic user-created tables/relationships and follow-up performance issues due to the dynamic nature of both schema & data.
Forecasting through Excel is like a grid on the web to keep it convenient for users migrating from Excel.
- Budgeting and Forecasting Built a strong budgeting module for accurate financial planning. Integrated forecasting tools with predictive analytics for reliable strategic insights.
- Financial Modeling Utilized cutting-edge modeling techniques for accuracy and flexibility in financial projections.
- Excel-Like Interface Designed a user-friendly Excel-like Plugin, ensuring a seamless transition and minimizing the learning curve for FP&A professionals.
Product Discovery & Design
MVP Development
Product Management
Quality Assurance
Maintenance & Support
Impact & Outcome
Delivered Expected MVP Defining Clear Value Proposition, Prioritizing Features Strategically, and Performing Rigorous QA & Testing.