Palo Alto Business Plan Premier 2006

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Product Features

• Business planning software with collaboration tools and detailed financials
• Advanced spreadsheets for sales forecast, personnel plan, and expense tracking
• Enhanced cash-flow management with graphical Cash Pilot tool
• Add custom financial information from unlimited Excel spreadsheets
• Calculate payback period; assess investment performance

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0009PF1QY
• Item model number: bpd9
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 1, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,905 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Business Plan Pro 2006 Premier offers the most extensive capabilities of any business planning software available. In addition to all the features of Business Plan Pro, it offers additional planning capabilities, including the ability to have multiple users in different locations work on the plan simultaneously.

No other business planning software compares with this adaptable power for planning. Its collaboration tools and detailed financials make Business Plan Pro 2006 Premier the right choice for you.

Highlights:

• Powerful collaboration tools enable you to work efficiently and effectively with your team to create an impressive plan.
• See the big picture by combining several plans into one and track results against your plan.
• More advanced financials including expanded sales forecasting, personnel planning, and P&L statements.
• Enhanced cash-flow management with the graphical Cash Pilot tool.

Features:

• Payback period: Calculate not only your break-even, but how long it will take to pay back an investment. This new financial table and chart provide the information some investors want to see and is also a useful measure of the potential risk investors will be taking.
• Use of funds: Add specific details to your business plan regarding your use of potential investment. Use this table and text topic to detail where the investment will go: product development, marketing, new locations, or general operations.
• More advanced spreadsheets: expanded sales forecast, an in-depth personnel plan, and detailed expense tracking produce powerful financial projections.
• More detailed cash-flow planning: the improved Cash Pilot empowers you to test your assumptions and play out "what-if" scenarios with your key assumptions.
• Unlimited spreadsheets: Add custom financial information from Excel by importing as many spreadsheets as you need into your business plan. Link Business Plan Pro's financials to yours for in-depth forecasting.
• Expanded profit-and-loss table: provides all of the power and flexibility you need for creating detailed financial projections.
• Business valuation help: help is available through the expanded Investment Analysis table based upon respected industry calculations to determine the worth of your business.
• Assess investment performance: the software allows you to determine your return on investment (ROI) and analyze what you need to get your business off the ground or to the next level.
• Investor offering analysis: Show investors you mean business with a detailed Investment Offering table that shows share ownership, investor payout, Internal Rate of Return (IRR), and valuation. Manage multiple rounds of investments and plan your dilution strategy.
• Expand your team planning: Create your own unique business plan template and share it with other Business Plan Pro users. Give a head start to your team members, divisions, or to satellite offices.*
• Track sources and uses of cash: new optional Sources and Uses Table shows the indirect cash-flow method that some business planners and investors need.
• Email-based collaboration: Share business planning tasks with multiple Business Plan Pro users with email-based collaboration. Track changes and increase efficiency and work flow.*
• Expert analysis: a Plan Review wizard allows you to check your financials for accuracy and completeness.
• Chart your organization: Impress your audience with an organizational chart. Combined with the other unique charts, your plan is sure to impress.

*Note: all collaboration features require each team member to have a copy of Business Plan Pro Premier.

Product Description

Business Plan Pro 2006 is the business plan software for developing a successful, profitable business. Put your ideas on paper and turn them into a viable plan that investors & banks will be attracted to -- this software makes it simple. Advanced collaboration tools -- assign portions of the plan to team members and then combine it all into a complete plan New Wizard-driven Financials that can be exported to Microsoft Word and Excel, PowerPoint, or to Adobe PDF documents Publish to a secure Website and create logins for trusted readers to view your plan

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful to business planners...to a point..., March 22, 2006

By	Stephen Armstrong (Hadley, Ma USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

On the positive side: the program runs as advertised on Windows XP. The heart of the program is seven interlinked spreadsheets that give basic financial highlights in spreadsheets and graphs: plan highlights, break-even analysis, projected profit/loss, cash flow, balance sheet, ratio analysis, and sales forecast. I bought the Premier edition (at $100 more) because it was said to allow importing Excel spreadsheets, which it does: but the less expensive version lets you cut-and-paste Excel spreadsheets and gives you the same results (unless you have some esoteric formulas that you use repeatedly to compute scenarios).

The support materials are voluminous: you get to read a book while you are working on your business plan, in case you don't have an M.B.A.

The negative side is the lack of control over formating and inability to import Acrobat.pdf files. You cannot print a section in landscape (except for the tables that the authors have put into landscape format), as you can do in Word/Excel documents (by declaring non-continuous sections). I wrote to the company about inability to import .pdf files, and the respondent muttered something about Adobe security issues. In regard to formating, you can control basic issues such as font, size, style, etc.; but you cannot insert page breaks, section breaks; and the font formating is somewhat cumbersome.

The program comes marketed with a sister program, Marketing Plan Pro, which I have not yet evaluated. Overall, I found Business Plan Pro Premier to be helpful, except for the $100 extra for "importing" Excel spreadsheets in the "Premier" version. Buy the cheaper version and you'll come out ahead of me.

4.0 out of 5 stars Business plan life saver, June 27, 2008

By	A. Hoxie - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you are writing a business plan than you need this! It helps you get organized and gives you plenty of ideas when you get stuck. I can't imagine writing a biz plan without this!