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Sactona has accumulated extensive expertise through projects aimed at enhancing the sophistication and efficiency of business management operations. This expertise has been consolidated into its features.
If you are facing any of the following challenges, consider Sactona:
– Complex spreadsheet-based tasks (e.g., Excel or Google Sheets) are heavily reliant on specific individuals.
– A custom-built system has become less user-friendly over time as business operations and organizational structures evolve.
– You lack real-time access to accurate business data.

6 features

Sactona Sactona is an EPM/FP&A application platform to improve the sophistication and efficiency of management accounting and business management. It is an enterprise solution that can be applied to various management accounting and enterprise performance management tasks such as medium-term planning, business planning, management planning, budgeting, performance management, forecast management, group management, expense budget management, and project management.

  • 01

    Wide range of applicable operations: Applicable to various management accounting and EPM

    You can build various EPM applications according to your business requirement on the Sactona platform. Our customers are using Sactona to achieve greater sophistication, speed, and efficiency in the following business management operations.

    ● Budgeting, Budget management, Budget and actual management, Forecast management, Management planning, Financial planning
    ● Global performance management
    ● Performance management by Department, Branch and sales channel.
    ● Global performance management by Product.
    ● Expense budget management by activity, Expense performance management
    ● R&D/CAPEX management by Product Model
    ● Project budget management
    ● S&OP
    ● Effort management by Project
    ● Performance evaluation, Performance reporting
    ● Medium- to long-term business planning, Financial planning
    ● Exchange rate simulation, Sales unit price simulation, etc.

  • 02

    Ease of use

    Sactona is an enterprise system that can handle large-scale operations using a multidimensional database, but very user-friendly Microsoft Excel/Google Spreadsheet User Interface, the spreadsheet UI that everyone is familiar with, is applied. There are no hurdles to using it intuitively and the end users can get started quickly without the resistance that often occurs among them when introducing a new system.
    Also, unlike systems with an Excel-like/Spreadsheet-like interface, you can always use the latest features of Excel/Spreadsheet, which is evolving every year.

  • 03

    Flexibility

    In management accounting, each company has its own aggregation/display categories and layouts that are necessary to be consistent with business strategy, and these can be said to be important elements of the company’s competitiveness. With Sactona, which uses Excel/Spreadheet for input and output, it is easy to realize the individuality and uniqueness of each company’s management accounting rules, and it can be used without modifying business processes to fit the system templates prepared by default.

  • 04

    A rich set of features

    All the necessary and useful features below for business management operations are equiped: Real-time data synchronization, viewing/editing authority setting, approval process, scheduled automatic processing such as email distribution/common expense allocation, drill-down/drill-through, graph visualization dashboard, master management, etc.
    Things that would be difficult to achieve manually using Excel/Spreadsheet, or that would require a large amount of man-hours with scratch development, can be easily accomplished with Sactona.

  • 05

    Scalability from small to large scale use

    Sactona is designed and developed based on Microsoft technology and is scalable from small-scale use with 10 users to large-scale use with over 1000 users. Thanks to technology that enables high-speed processing of data on billions of cases in memory, it can be used as a core business system for enterprises.
    It can be used by small and medium-sized companies and even one business department, and its strengths are that it can be quickly introduced by starting small and expanding the target operations, and that it can minimize the risk of establishing operational stabilization.

  • 06

    Globally compatible

    You can use Excel/Spreadsheet that is used in each country. Additionally, Sactona is available in English, Japanese and Chinese, and is widely used by customers with offices and subsidiaries around the world.

  • 01

    Wide range of applicable operations: Applicable to various management accounting and EPM

    You can build various EPM applications according to your business requirement on the Sactona platform. Our customers are using Sactona to achieve greater sophistication, speed, and efficiency in the following business management operations.

    ● Budgeting, Budget management, Budget and actual management, Forecast management, Management planning, Financial planning
    ● Global performance management
    ● Performance management by Department, Branch and sales channel.
    ● Global performance management by Product.
    ● Expense budget management by activity, Expense performance management
    ● R&D/CAPEX management by Product Model
    ● Project budget management
    ● S&OP
    ● Effort management by Project
    ● Performance evaluation, Performance reporting
    ● Medium- to long-term business planning, Financial planning
    ● Exchange rate simulation, Sales unit price simulation, etc.

  • 02

    Ease of use

    Sactona is an enterprise system that can handle large-scale operations using a multidimensional database, but very user-friendly Microsoft Excel/Google Spreadsheet User Interface, the spreadsheet UI that everyone is familiar with, is applied. There are no hurdles to using it intuitively and the end users can get started quickly without the resistance that often occurs among them when introducing a new system.
    Also, unlike systems with an Excel-like/Spreadsheet-like interface, you can always use the latest features of Excel/Spreadsheet, which is evolving every year.

  • 03

    Flexibility

    In management accounting, each company has its own aggregation/display categories and layouts that are necessary to be consistent with business strategy, and these can be said to be important elements of the company’s competitiveness. With Sactona, which uses Excel/Spreadheet for input and output, it is easy to realize the individuality and uniqueness of each company’s management accounting rules, and it can be used without modifying business processes to fit the system templates prepared by default.

  • 04

    A rich set of features

    All the necessary and useful features below for business management operations are equiped: Real-time data synchronization, viewing/editing authority setting, approval process, scheduled automatic processing such as email distribution/common expense allocation, drill-down/drill-through, graph visualization dashboard, master management, etc.
    Things that would be difficult to achieve manually using Excel/Spreadsheet, or that would require a large amount of man-hours with scratch development, can be easily accomplished with Sactona.

  • 05

    Scalability from small to large scale use

    Sactona is designed and developed based on Microsoft technology and is scalable from small-scale use with 10 users to large-scale use with over 1000 users. Thanks to technology that enables high-speed processing of data on billions of cases in memory, it can be used as a core business system for enterprises.
    It can be used by small and medium-sized companies and even one business department, and its strengths are that it can be quickly introduced by starting small and expanding the target operations, and that it can minimize the risk of establishing operational stabilization.

  • 06

    Globally compatible

    You can use Excel/Spreadsheet that is used in each country. Additionally, Sactona is available in English, Japanese and Chinese, and is widely used by customers with offices and subsidiaries around the world.

Sactona dashboard screen

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Sactona composition

Very user-friendly Microsoft Excel/Google Spreadsheet User Interface is applied.
By inputting data into an Excel file opened from Sactona Portal on the browser, closing and saving the file, it will be reflected in the multidimensional DB in real time.
Screen designs can be flexibly done to meet unique user specifications and data can be transferred from ERP and other in-house systems.
It also has the features e.g. approval process, user-level viewing/editing authority setup, automatic email distribution of aggregated information and highly visible dashboard.

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