Manage Investments for Maximum Return
Financial management is a critical component of selecting the right investments. Mariner supports the capture of costs and benefits over the entire lifecycle of each investment — from concept, through development and launch, and on through the maintenance and retirement phases.
Realize Lifecycle Benefits
Accurate benefits estimates are tough to come by. Too often complex spreadsheets used to justify new investments boast incredible returns that never seem to materialize. Using Mariner, you'll create centrally located financial models, using a consistent model that ensures estimated benefits can be captured and ultimately measured against actual returns.
Mariner’s Business Cases View enables comparison of investments,
summarizing costs and benefits across the portfolio.
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Key Features:
Standard Business Cases Views — the organization can more effectively compare different types of investments, rolling up total costs and benefits across the portfolio.
Time-phased financial rollups — allow you to model and track the financial implications of project starts, stops and delays, and easily adjust your fiscal or accounting calendars. Time-phased costs, benefits and other metrics are rolled up at every level, providing accurate summary information based on highly detailed data.
Financial planning — Total costs (CapEx and OpEx) for investments in the portfolio are summarized, allowing you to shift between standard and fiscal calendars to understand budget impacts and improve financial performance.
Key Benefits:
Improve forecasts and fiscal accountability — Using Mariner, project costs and schedule data are updated continuously, providing timelier and better forecasts that align with accounting periods.
Monitor performance — Model and monitor key performance indicators (ROI, NPV, IRR and TCO) to continuously measure plan versus actual and actual versus baseline. Mariner highlights early indicators that projects are off course, enabling you to correct small issues before they become big ones.
Realize benefits — Mariner captures the benefits once the project has been deployed and allows you to track them back to the original business case for better accountability.
An Integrated Solution
Advanced financial modeling is at the heart of Mariner's architecture, ensuring cost and benefit estimates roll up quickly and consistently throughout the application. This means accurate cost and schedule information is available for Portfolio Management decisions. The financial models also roll up plan and actual details from the Project Management and Resource Management capabilities to deliver both top-down and bottom-up planning in a single integrated solution.
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