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Evaluate Solver for your finance team
Solver Ireland helps finance teams structure recurring reporting, consolidation, budgeting and forecasting processes inside Solver’s cloud Corporate Performance Management platform.
This evaluation centre brings together the product information, technical guidance, demonstrations and customer examples your team may need when assessing whether Solver is suitable for your organisation.
What does your finance team need?
Organisations usually begin evaluating Solver when a recurring finance process has become more difficult to manage as the business grows. Select the area most relevant to your team to understand what Solver can support and what a suitable demonstration should include.
Reporting and analysis
Management reporting, financial statements, board packs, dashboards and drilldown into supporting detail.
Financial consolidation
Multi-entity reporting, FX, intercompany activity, group adjustments and consolidated outputs.
Budgeting and forecasting
Controlled inputs, assumptions, versions, approvals, forecast roll-forward and scenario planning.
Data and integrations
ERP data, Excel inputs, operational systems, shared dimensions, mappings and reporting structures.
Finance input collection
Departmental, entity and business-unit submissions managed through defined forms and workflows.
Dashboards and finance analysis
Financial and operational views supported by traceable data, defined calculations and structured reporting models.
How Solver works alongside your existing systems
ERP and operational systems hold the source information an organisation needs. Finance may still require a separate structure for reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and input collection.
Solver provides that Corporate Performance Management layer and can bring relevant data, finance logic, controlled inputs and recurring outputs into a shared environment.
Is Solver likely to suit your organisation?
- Reporting, consolidation or planning relies on considerable manual handling
- Several entities, currencies, systems or business units contribute to the finance process
- Reports depend heavily on linked spreadsheets or individual file knowledge
- Finance needs more consistent inputs, calculations and recurring outputs
- The team wants to retain an Excel-familiar user experience within a controlled platform
- Existing ERP reporting does not fully support the required management or group outputs
- The organisation wants to begin with one finance process and expand over time
Suitability depends on the finance process, source systems, available data, reporting requirements and internal ownership. Solver Ireland begins by understanding the outputs your team needs and the process required to produce them.
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Why work with Solver Ireland?
Solver Ireland helps organisations evaluate, implement and expand Solver around their finance requirements. The team begins with the outputs you need, the systems and data involved, and the process used to prepare, review and distribute financial information.
Finance-led evaluation
We examine the reporting, consolidation, budgeting or forecasting process your team needs to support.
Relevant demonstrations
We prepare demonstrations around your source systems, organisational structure, dimensions and required outputs.
Structured implementation
We define the data, mappings, calculations, inputs, permissions and workflows required for the agreed starting point.
Local training and support
We support validation, user training, adoption and further development after implementation.
Key information for your evaluation
Evaluating a finance platform usually involves questions from finance, IT, leadership and other project stakeholders. The following information provides a high-level introduction to Solver’s technical structure, data security, hosting, integration approach, implementation and available customer evidence.
Detailed technical and security information can also be provided by Solver Ireland based on the organisation’s requirements.
How are custom integrations and development requirements assessed?
Solver Ireland reviews custom requirements during discovery. This includes the required finance outputs, source systems, available data, connection methods, mappings, calculations, inputs, workflows and access requirements.
Where additional integration or development work may be required, its feasibility, responsibilities and scope are assessed before the proposed solution is agreed.
What does a Solver implementation involve?
A Solver implementation begins with the finance process and outputs the organisation needs to support. Solver Ireland then reviews the relevant source data, dimensions, calculations, mappings, contributors, controls and approvals.
The agreed solution is configured and validated with the people responsible for preparing and using the information. Training and post-implementation support are included according to the agreed project scope.
What involvement is required from our finance and IT teams?
Finance usually provides the required reports, calculations, mappings, process knowledge and validation. IT may support source-system access, connection requirements, authentication, security review and technical testing.
The exact involvement depends on the implementation scope. Solver Ireland identifies the required stakeholders and responsibilities during discovery so the organisation can plan the appropriate internal resources.
Can we begin with one finance process and expand later?
Yes. An organisation may begin with a defined requirement such as management reporting, financial consolidation, budgeting or forecasting. Additional reports, entities, users and finance processes can be introduced as requirements develop, subject to the relevant licences, data and implementation scope.
What finance requirements can Solver support?
Depending on the organisation’s systems, data and implementation scope, Solver can support requirements such as:
- Reporting across entities, projects and business units
- Management and board reporting
- Financial consolidation
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Project and departmental input collection
- Actual, budget and forecast comparisons
- Account and dimension mapping
- Financial and operational analysis
- Historical reporting across different systems
- Controlled access for different users
Solver Ireland reviews the organisation’s required outputs and current finance process before confirming the appropriate solution structure.
Where can we see Solver in use?
Solver Ireland provides demonstrations covering reporting, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation, data warehousing and analysis. A tailored demonstration can also be prepared around the systems, dimensions, entities and outputs relevant to the organisation.
Can Solver provide information about its product roadmap?
Solver continues to develop its cloud Corporate Performance Management platform and related capabilities. Where a planned capability is relevant to an organisation’s evaluation, Solver Ireland can request the appropriate product-roadmap information from Solver Global, subject to the information being approved for disclosure.
How does Solver work with our existing systems?
Solver can bring relevant information from ERP, finance, operational and spreadsheet sources into a shared structure for reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and analysis.
The technical approach depends on the systems involved and the organisation’s requirements. Some implementations use direct connections to supported ERP systems, while others use the Solver data warehouse to combine, organise or retain information from several sources.
Which systems and data sources can Solver work with?
Solver can work with data from supported ERP systems, SQL databases, Excel and CSV files, as well as other relevant sources where a suitable connection method is available.
During discovery, Solver Ireland reviews the systems involved, the information finance needs, the available connection methods and the required refresh process. The team then recommends an integration approach based on the organisation’s reporting, consolidation and planning requirements.
How does Solver protect financial data and manage user access?
Solver supports controlled access so that users can work with the reports, inputs and information relevant to their responsibilities. Permissions can be configured around the organisation’s structure, user roles and supported finance processes.
Security, authentication and access requirements are reviewed during the technical evaluation. Solver Ireland can provide relevant technical and security documentation for review by the organisation’s IT or information-security team.
Where is Solver data hosted?
Hosting arrangements are confirmed as part of the technical evaluation because they depend on the Solver services included in the proposed solution. Solver Ireland can provide details of the applicable hosting environment and supporting technical documentation for review.
Does every Solver implementation require a data warehouse?
No. The appropriate structure depends on the systems involved, the data that finance needs and the processes being supported.
Some requirements may be supported through a direct connection to a compatible source system. A Solver data warehouse may be appropriate when information needs to be combined from several sources, mapped into a shared structure, retained for historical reporting or prepared for recurring reporting, consolidation and planning.
Can Solver combine information from multiple ERP or operational systems?
Solver can support finance processes that require information from several systems, provided the necessary data can be accessed and mapped into an appropriate structure.
Solver Ireland reviews the entities, accounts, dimensions, currencies and historical information involved before recommending the connection and data structure. This can be relevant to groups with several ERP environments, acquired companies or an ongoing ERP migration.
How does Solver support different finance processes?
Explore demonstrations covering reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, data management and analysis. Each demonstration focuses on a particular finance requirement, system environment or industry scenario.
We can also prepare a tailored demonstration around your organisation’s source systems, entities, dimensions and required outputs.
Solver Home Page Tour
A walkthrough of the Solver interface and how finance teams typically navigate the platform.
Solver Suite: Planning, Reporting, Consolidation, and Analysis
An overview of the full Solver suite and how the core components fit together.
Solver Suite for Microsoft Dynamics 365
How Solver sits alongside Microsoft Dynamics 365 and supports finance workflows built on ERP data.
Solver & Dynamics 365 Demo
An overview of how Solver integrates with Dynamics 365 to support planning, reporting, and analysis.
Drill-back to Dynamics 365 Business Central
See how users can drill from Solver reports directly back into Business Central transactions.
What Is QuickStart & the Template Marketplace for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central?
How teams can get started quickly using pre-built templates, dashboards, and planning models.
Create Powerful Visualizations with Solver’s Connector to Tableau
Using Solver data with Tableau for advanced visualisation and analysis.
Solver Custom Drilldown Demo
How users explore data in more detail without breaking reporting structures.
Financial Consolidation Demo
How Solver supports group reporting and consolidation across entities.
Solver ERP Consolidator
An overview of consolidating data from multiple ERP systems.
Solver Data Warehouse
How Solver manages and structures data to support reporting and planning at scale.
Solver Migration Mapper Demo
Tools to support migration and mapping from existing systems into Solver.
Solver for Construction Demo
Planning, reporting, and project-based insight for construction organisations.
Solver for Nonprofit Demo
Budgeting, reporting, and funding oversight for nonprofit finance teams.
Solver for SaaS Demo
Subscription-based planning, revenue analysis, and SaaS metrics.
Solver for Senior Living Demo
Operational and financial planning for senior living organisations.
Solver + Binary Stream for SaaS
Extended capabilities for SaaS billing and revenue scenarios.
Solver Copilot Demo
An introduction to Solver Copilot and how it supports finance teams.
Solver Copilot Analysis Agent Demo Overview
A deeper look at analysis agents and AI-assisted insight within Solver.
See how other organisations use Solver
Organisations use Solver to support different combinations of reporting, consolidation, budgeting, forecasting and financial analysis. Explore how finance teams have used the platform alongside their existing systems and organisational structures.
Budgeting and forecasting with Dynamics 365
See how a multi-division professional-services organisation introduced structured budgeting, departmental inputs, driver-based planning and more frequent forecasting alongside Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
Manufacturing reporting and budgeting
See how a manufacturing finance team improved reporting and budgeting across a varied operational environment using Solver alongside Dynamics 365 Business Central.
Construction and multi-entity consolidation
See how a construction and real-estate group used Solver with Microsoft Dynamics SL to support consolidation across 45 entities, financial reporting, revenue-distribution procedures, project-share calculations and drilldown.
Continue your Solver evaluation
Tell us which finance processes, systems and requirements your organisation is reviewing. Solver Ireland can provide relevant technical information, demonstrations and customer examples, then help you identify an appropriate next step.