AI for FP&A and Controlling: Analyze, Plan, Simulate and Model
Smartofant Studio is an AI-powered workspace for CFOs, financial controllers and business teams that want to build and improve planning and reporting solutions. Describe your requirements in natural language. The AI uses your project context to create integrated planning models and plans, help define planning logic and KPIs, and develop suitable interfaces, reports and analyses — for example, in Power BI.
You can also use dialogue to adapt existing models, simulate scenarios and document changes automatically. Smartofant Studio reduces coordination and development effort while giving finance and controlling teams more independence, from the first business idea to a working, traceable solution.
AI integrated into your controlling environment
Avoid disconnected tools and data silos. Analyses, forecasts and simulations use validated company data to produce precise, traceable results. Company data remains within your own system environment.
One AI assistant for everyone involved in controlling
CFOs, controllers, power users and business teams work in one environment. Roles and user profiles determine which functions and data each person can access. Changes remain traceable and can be reversed.
Practical support for every role
Smartofant Studio helps CFOs prepare decisions, FP&A experts plan and simulate scenarios, and power users build and refine models. Business users can ask specific questions in natural language and work with the results.
More time for decisions, with greater transparency
Smartofant is trained on controlling requirements and can deliver traceable results in minutes. Move from an initial concept to a prototype faster, giving your team more time for decision-making and business steering.
What can the Smartofant AI assistant do in everyday controlling work?
- Understand business and finance questions expressed in natural language
- Analyze variances in costs, revenue and projects
- Explain underlying causes and key drivers
- Create forecasts, scenarios and simulations
- Analyze and document controlling models
- Create planning models and make changes to them
- Prepare decision materials and management summaries
- Design reports based on screenshots
- Support project and cost center planning for different user groups, including business departments
As an innovative company, we are always actively seeking new methods and solutions. smartpm.solutions has convinced us of the advantages of the new AI-based methods and their forecasting quality.
Ingmar Gon, Supply Chain Planning, Follmann Chemie
What you’ll learn in the factsheet
Explore how Smartofant Studio supports analysis, planning, business steering and modelling in the factsheet.
- Smartofant Studio AI assistant actively supports the entire controlling process: from analysis and planning to performance management and modeling.
- Compliant and secure: Role-based access and permissions, comprehensive documentation, and smartpm’s own hardware infrastructure for language models.
- Scenarios and simulations made significantly easier: Alternative developments can be quickly calculated and compared in a secure sandbox environment.
- Automated rolling forecasts and predictive analytics: Smartofant generates forecasts and identifies potential risks at an early stage.
- Less workload for controllers and business departments: Smartofant guides business users through time-consuming planning processes.
- Direct connection to the controlling system is key: AI delivers its full value when embedded directly into planning, reporting, and forecasting. All relevant data is seamlessly available in a secure environment.
- Early detection of variances and risks: AI identifies implausible planning values, trends, and cost drivers and provides actionable recommendations.
- Humans remain in control: AI provides analyses and recommendations, while controllers and CFOs remain responsible for decisions.
Planning in Power BI & AI Assistant Smartofant – Webinar Recording
- Using Microsoft Power BI as Planning Software
- Practical Use Cases: Live demonstrations of planning and budgeting scenarios in Power BI supported by the Smartofant AI Assistant
- Simple and governed planning approach with high user acceptance
- High Performance:Â Bridging scalable IBM technology and the Power BI user interface
- New developments: AI assistant for planning support
Productive Artificial Intelligence for FP&A Departments
Smartofant makes AI in FP&A productive, secure and reliable – using natural language.
What Smartofant delivers in real-world FP&A practice
- Faster analysis and decision-making based on company-wide data
- Less manual effort in planning, reporting and forecasting
- Transparent insights into variances, root causes and value drivers
- AI-supported planning and modeling across finance and business teams
- From question to analysis, scenario or action in one environment
Learn more about the integration of Artificial Intelligence in FP&A and Financial Controlling in a free expert chat
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