Solver

Solver is a web-based financial planning and analysis platform from Solver, founded in 1996 and headquartered in Calabasas, California. Its listed capabilities include budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning, financial consolidation and forecast-versus-actuals analysis. These functions support preparing plans, modeling alternatives and reviewing financial results. Solver defines three user plans. Standard User includes full functionality, report building and running, data entry, security management, Solver Academy and Solver Copilot. Contributor User can enter budgets and forecasts and view published reports. Viewer User can view published reports and use the ad-hoc report writer. The roles separate users who manage security and build reports from those who contribute planning data or mainly review published reports. Solver lists no prices for these plans; pricing is available on request. The product is listed for web use, with budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, variance analysis, workforce planning and consolidation all marked as available capabilities.

It suits organizations needing web-based budgeting, forecasting, scenario and variance work with distinct contributor and viewer roles. Teams can assign fuller report and security duties to Standard Users while limiting other users.