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Gain better insight into one of your most important KPIs

RevStream automates and manages the end-to-end revenue lifecycle to support real-time reporting so you can get the insights you need, faster. 

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The role of revenue automation

Revenue is a critical KPI. Yet due to data silos, changing business models, regulatory demands and legacy systems, many organizations are unable to actively manage their revenue effectively.

RevStream centralizes and automates data and accounting, including revenue recognition processes, giving finance and commercial teams access to a single source of trusted finance data. Armed with more accurate and detailed revenue analytics, teams can make better decisions while reducing technology and resource costs.

Empower your teams with:

  • Efficient, automated, continuous revenue recognition compliance
  • Flexibility to react quickly to challenges and opportunities
  • Centralized, real-time data for better business insights
  • Increased financial confidence and revenue quality through active monitoring of KPIs
  • Reduced costs and time to financial close

RevStream delivers better business value​

Automate hundreds of thousands of journal lines for increased accuracy and time savings

Quickly configure consistent revenue rules and onboard new data feeds and products

Reduce or eliminate the number of excel spreadsheets required

Take days off the month-end close for more time to spend analyzing data

Address the interplay between revenue recognition and lease accounting

Generate revenue recognition accounting in near real time through SSP automation and configurable templates

SAS Institute selects Aptitude to provide revenue automation

RevStream will provide scalable, comprehensive revenue accounting, reporting and forecasting.

Aptitude is delighted to welcome SAS Institute, a multinational developer of analytics software, as a recent client.

During the evaluation process, Aptitude demonstrated a high level of expertise, flexibility and a commitment to the partnership. RevStream has the capabilities necessary to deliver smart compliance as well as the comprehensive revenue management benefits needed to support growth and business flexibility. This will allow the SAS Institute finance team to actively manage the end-to-end revenue lifecycle and provide data-driven insights to the business.

What sets RevStream apart

Control

Finance-owned with full control and the ability to make changes independent of IT.

  • Manage every aspect of the revenue lifecycle from a single location
  • Centralized repository for all revenue data, calculations and reporting
  • Business users can change rules, modify contracts and transactions, access self-service analytics and reporting and identify and fix any errors with complete audit trail

Strategic foresight

Get rid of data silos and spreadsheets and give your teams access to a trusted, granular data hub.

  • Multi-dimensional data visualization for real-time, actionable data to support pricing decisions, investments and competitive strategies
  • Drill down from reported results to underlying transactions and business logic
  • Proactively model exception contracts to avoid the period-end crunch

Smart Compliance

Continuous, automated ASC 606 / IFRS 15 compliance.

  • Automated compliance with revenue recognition standards with optional integration to our lease accounting engine
  • Accurate reporting with full transparency to regulators
  • Reduce risk of audits and restatements
  • Higher investor confidence, valuation and credit rating, especially for companies looking to IPO

Access to better data, faster

Increase productivity, automate processes and reduce costs

  • Evaluate and approve quotes for SSP compliance to avoid balance sheet and P&L surprises
  • Enable a much faster financial monthly and quarterly close, getting the numbers into the hands of decision-makers sooner
  • Understand the ‘Revenue Health’ of the business and address issues that may be negatively impacting key KPIs

Business agility

Benefit from a solution that can flexibly react to business change, including a shift to subscription models.

  • Highly configurable to support even the most complex contracts and business structures
  • Cloud deployment to scale with evolving needs
  • Able to retrospectively and prospectively adjust ‘in-flight’ inercompany arrangements with an interactive SSP engine that allows rules to be easily adjusted and fair values recalculated

Revenue automation beyond compliance

RevStream is a true revenue lifecycle management solution that allows users to impact the organization beyond revenue recognition. 

  • Evaluate the potential impact of pricing decisions on the balance sheet
  • Create and model contracts directly in RevStream, with the option to define any accounting rules ahead of contract execution
  • Store data at the contract line level giving you unprecedented view of your balance sheet and powering roll-forward reporting
  • Use the RevStream Insights platform to define and analyze your defined KPIs and build dashboards based on your selected data elements
AREV revenue management lifecycle wheel

Fewer journals and fewer manual tasks reduce business risks during month-end close, making it a much more seamless process. As soon as we close, the data is readily available, giving our revenue and FP&A teams an accurate, real-time platform for forecasting and planning.

– Declan O’Donoghue, Senior Principal Analyst

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