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Budget In Brief by Budget In Brief

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Create and manipulate budget data. Budget In Brief is a tool for Budget Analysts and Enterprise Solution Integrators. The Budget In Brief application was built with the goal of allowing budget analysts and enterprise solution integrators to create and manipulate budget data. Budget In Brief automates the production of budget documents, providing a solution combining financial information, exhibits, reports, and narrative and media documents, all created with common word processing packages, into final documents that are ready for publication.

For Budget Analysts

Budget In Brief enhances the current budget formulation and publication process. With an automated, standardized, and repeatable process, suitable for any kind of budget submissions. It drives a consistent look and feel across all organization budget submissions, and flexibly adapts to the latest organizational standards.

No matter whether you are a member of a Federal, State, Municipal or Commercial organization, the Budget In Brief application will support the budget formulation for Presidential, Congressional, or any other internal submission.

The user interface is simple, friendly and robust; it provides all the required information in one window, and was created with the Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 with the focus on 508 compliance requirements.

A simplified installation process does not require administrative privileges. It can be installed or simply copied in to the folder making it easy for all to use.

Supported Client Side Platforms:

Windows XP

Windows Vista

Windows 7

For Enterprise Solution Integrators

Budget In Brief does not need Microsoft Office to produce documents. It is a totally independent solution, which provides everything that is needed to produce Office files. None of the risks associated with the Microsoft Office package are inherent to the Budget In Brief application.

Budget In Brief is very secure, due to its components running in the user context. Therefore, Budget In Brief’s components do not pose a potential risk to vital system resources. Furthermore, when a document is created by the Budget In Brief application, macros do not automatically run.

Budget In Brief tools do not need any additional parts or pieces in order for the application to function.

The command line tools do not require any human response, and are designed for server automation.

The Budget In Brief application is scalable and fast. Most Office applications are not designed to be simultaneously used by hundreds and thousands of users; but contrary to this, the Budget In Brief application is designed for just that.

The Budget In Brief application performs flawlessly whether on a user laptop, single server or on a load balanced web farm powering an Enterprise wide application.

Supported Server Side Platforms

Windows Server 2003

Windows Server 2008

Windows Server 2008 R2

Budget In Brief is available in Professional and Enterprise Editions

The Enterprise Edition adds:

Input from Databases, Accounting Systems, Financial Systems, Enterpise Applications and Third Party Applications

Crosswalks, Financial and Accounting Data and Performance Data

Data Transformation Scripts

Exhibits

Budget In Brief Enterprise Features:

User Interface and command line tools

Very small space imprint. Application can run from USB memory stick.

No need for the installation. Copy and paste or carry application with you on USB.

Friendlier UI with integrated help

Improved book and exhibit generation event messaging

Ability to browse through the all generated artifacts

Consolidate data from multiple files

Control the document's look and feel with the style template

Use your existing Microsoft Excel crosswalks. Just add name ranges and you're good to go.

Automated exhibit generation.

References in data files

References from the crosswalks

Open to solution integrators

Open book format

Open exhibit format

Open reference format

Open data format

Open XSLT transformation

Use existing XSLT transformation scripts that produce HTML

Control what you want to generate: the data, the exhibits only, or the whole book.

Support for hard linking to the exhibit documents or pre-generating the exhibit documents.

Working with data

Use your existing Microsoft Excel crosswalks. Just add a named ranges and you're good to go.

Provide data extracts in XML format from any data storage

Effortlessly introduce data dimensions

Spread cost by different dimensions

Fund spreading on desires level of details

Use pre calculated values or perform XSLT roll up

Link to data directly from your narratives or other context documents

Link values from excel spreadsheets, or data files, to Narratives

Association of the same data elements with different dimensions

Inject attributes in to any dimension

Support for control numbers

Support for any type of data: strings, text, money, numbers, etc.

Optimized for servers

No need for Excel or Word - Budget In Brief does it all.

Extensive list of the supported excel formulas to aggregate the values and perform calculations.

Database functions:

DAVERAGE, DCOUNT, DCOUNTA, DGET, DMAX, DMIN, DPRODUCT,

DSTDEV, DSTDEVP, DSUM, DVAR, DVARP

Date and time functions

DATE, DATEVALUE, DAY, DAYS360, HOUR, MINUTE, MONTH, NOW,

SECOND, TIME, TODAY, WEEKDAY, YEAR

Financial functions

FV, NPV, PMT, PV

Information functions

ISBLANK, ISNA, ISNUMBER

Logical functions

AND, FALSE, IF, NOT, OR, TRUE

Lookup and reference functions

COLUMN, COLUMNS, HLOOKUP, HYPERLINK, INDEX, INDIRECT,

LOOKUP, MATCH, OFFSET, ROW, ROWS, VLOOKUP

Math and trigonometry functions

ABS, ACOS, ACOSH, ASIN, ASINH, ATAN, ATAN2, ATANH, CEILING, COMBIN, COS, COSH, DEGREES, EVEN, EXP, FACT, FLOOR, INT, LN, LOG, LOG10, MOD, ODD, PI, POWER, PRODUCT, RADIANS, RAND, ROUND, ROUNDDOWN, ROUNDUP, SIGN, SIN, SINH, SQRT, SUBTOTAL, SUM, SUMIF, SUMPRODUCT, SUMSQ, SUMX2MY2, SUMX2PY2, SUMXMY2, TAN, TANH, TRUNC,

Statistical functions

AVEDEV, AVERAGE, CORREL, COUNT, COUNTA, COUNTBLANK, COUNTIF, LINEST, MAX, MEDIAN, MIN, PEARSON, RANK,RSQ, STDEV, STDEVP

Text functions

ASC, CHAR, CODE, CONCATENATE, DOLLAR, EXACT, FIND, FIXED, LEFT, LEN, LOWER, MID, REPLACE, REPT, RIGHT, SEARCH, SUBSTITUTE, T, TEXT, TRIM, UPPER, VALUE

Budget In Brief Enterprise v Professional

Budget In BriefProfessionalEnterprise

Very small space imprint. Application can run from USB memory stick.YesYes

A Windows ApplicationYesYes

Command Line ToolYesYes

Friendly UI with integrated helpYesYes

No need for the installation. Copy and paste or carry application with you on USB.YesYes

Does not require Microsoft Office or Open Office suites. Budget In Brief does it all.YesYes

Extended event messagingYesYes

Error and process reporting YesYes

Ability to browse through the all generated artifactsYesYes

Ability to merge documents from different formats into the single budget documentYesYes

Enforces consistent document formatting for documents received from numerous sourcesYesYes

Supports tables, charts, and different media contentYesYes

Automatically calculates a table of contents YesYes

Allows multiple ways to create the table of contentsYesYes

Automatically calculates page numbers YesYes

Default document marginsYesYes

Customizable margins per document sectionYesYes

Enforces the default document header or footerYesYes

Provides ability to manage headers and footer for each individual section YesYes

Predefined budget book nameYesYes

Ability to add watermarksYesYes

Ability to start section on an odd page YesYes

Support for multiple cover pagesYesYes

Control what you want to generate: the data, the exhibits only, or the whole book.NoYes

Document Templates

Supports custom document templates YesYes

Support for cover page templates YesYes

Support for header or footer templates YesYes

Control the document's look and feel with the style templateYesYes

Numbers In Narratives

Supports Numbers in NarrativesYesYes

Supports multiple reference files YesYes

Control order in which references are appliedYesYes

Allows to use an extra reference filesYesYes

Extract references from the crosswalksNoYes

Extract references from data files.NoYes

File Formats

Support for different document file formats: ODT, DOC, DOCX, Open Office XML, RFT, HTML, XML, Word XML, Word 2003 XML.YesYes

Output formats: DOCX, Microsoft Word 2007-2010; Adobe PDF.YesYes

Exhibits and Reports

Support for hard linking to the exhibit documentsYesYes

Automated exhibit generation.NoYes

Use existing XSLT transformation scripts that produce HTMLNoYes

Working with data

Imports data extracts in XML format from any data storageNoYes

Support for any type of data: strings, text, money, numbers, etc.NoYes

Use your existing Microsoft Excel crosswalks. Just add a named ranges and you're good to go.NoYes

Link to data directly from your narratives or other context documentsNoYes

Consolidate data from multiple data filesNoYes

Link values from excel spreadsheets, or data files, to NarrativesNoYes

Support for control numbersNoYes

Fund spreading on desires level of detailsNoYes

Effortlessly introduce data dimensionsNoYes

Inject attributes in to any dimensionNoYes

Spread cost by different dimensionsNoYes

Association of the same data elements with different dimensionsNoYes

Extensive list of the supported excel formulas to aggregate the values and perform calculations.NoYes

Use pre calculated values or perform XSLT roll upNoYes

Enterprise Solution Integration

Optimized for serversYesYes

Open to solution integrators: Open book format; Open reference format; Open exhibit format; Open data format; Open XSLT transformation;YesYes

Full budget book processing cycleYesYes

Document processing automationYesYes

Assembly of highly complex budget documentsYesYes

Increased data qualityYesYes

Ready for incorporation with the Distributed Build Management and Continuous Integration tools YesYes

Supports content management integration and version control system transparency YesYes

Simplifies the rollover process YesYes

Create and manipulate budget data.

Pricing: Budget In Brief V1.3.647.252 Professional Edition Single User License, Budget In Brief V1.3.647.252 Professional Edition Single User License, price per license for 5 or more licenses, Budget In Brief V1.3.647.252 Enterprise Edition Single User License, Budget In Brief V1.3.647.252 Enterprise Edition Single User License, price per license for 5 or more licenses

Evals & Downloads: Download the Budget In Brief Samples, Download the Budget In Brief QuickSteps Tutorials, Download the Budget In Brief Exhibit Generation Tutorials, Read the Budget In Brief End User License Agreement, Download the Budget In Brief V1.3.647.252 evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 90 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Architecture of Product: 32Bit

Product Type: Application

Application Type: End User Application, Server Application

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Part numbers: PC-540837-363831 540837-363831 PC-540837-364244 540837-364244 PC-540837-363837 540837-363837 PC-540837-364245 540837-364245