AARO CPM vs Solver

AARO CPM provides financial consolidation and reporting for organizations with multiple entities. It supports group accounting, consolidated financial statements, analytics, operational management analysis, simulations, recalculations, planning, budgeting, and forecasting. AARO says it can support groups ranging from three companies to a thousand, with users able to analyze data and generate consolidated statements during financial close. The preconfigured Base Package includes an EU BAS chart of accounts based on IFRS, an acquisition register, cash flow, financial statements and notes, acquisition elimination, Excel add-ons, and a dashboard. AARO Integrator imports data from multiple ERP systems, including VISMA, Navision, Hogia, Agresso, NetSuite, SAP, and Microsoft Dynamics; imports can be scheduled or handled semi-automatically with mapping and conversion rules. AARO Connector makes figures available in other systems, including BI, budgeting and forecasting solutions, Excel, and other Office tools. Deployment is available as a managed cloud service or on-premise. Pricing is on request, with demos offered.

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.