Manual entry is possible both at the lowest and the aggregate levels. Figures can be entered at an aggregate level, such as the whole company, with an automatic breakdown by department. You can achieve this by selecting different strategies for allocating periods of time horizontally and for vertical distribution. For example, you can ask the system to show the vertically (by department) in relation to last year's figures.

You can choose from several different system methods for showing trends over time (actual figures last year, actual/forecast this year, flat, etc.) In addition, you can define your own keys for the time intervals over which forecasts and budget figures are to be distributed.

UniPlan has its own report generator, which makes it easy to create reports with a few clicks of the mouse. The reports can be defined in three dimensions with an extra row section. You can use a dimension of your choice as columns and rows. (The time dimension cannot be defined as rows.) In UniPlan, you can also define print sequences for large printing jobs. For example, this might comprise all the main reports from the budgeting departments. Print sequences can be transferred to printer, Excel, HTML or text files.

UniPlan handles both centralised and decentralised budget processes. In large organisations, users are often located in different places and use physically different databases. To take this into accounts, UniPlan can generate budget packages that can be distributed to database platforms other than the one used at head office. UniPlan can currently be run on Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, SQL Anywhere and Access - or a combination of the five.

UniPlan can be configured in different ways depending on the user's competence. To make the system more accessible to novice users, you can remove menus and toolbars. You can also define menu icons that make it easy to manoeuvre through the system. Individual users have access only to their own area of responsibility, along with any underlying units.

Users can write and read comments linked with each area of responsibility. Comments can be printed as attachments in a print sequence.

If you use UniPlan as a forecasting tool, you will keep employees and colleagues involved in the process throughout the year, so that forecasting and budgeting become a natural part of the organisation's overall planning activities.