Performing what-if forecasts using a business information and decisioning control system

摘要

A method is described for performing and acting on what-if forecasts in a business that includes multiple interrelated business processes. The method includes: (a) providing a business information and decisioning control system to a user, where the business information and decisioning control system includes a business system user interface that includes plural input mechanisms; (b) receiving the user's selection of an input setting made using at least one of the plural input mechanisms, the input setting defining a what-if case scenario; (c) performing a forecast based on the what-if case scenario to generate an output result, the output result forecasting an effect that the what-if case scenario will have on the interrelated business processes; (d) presenting the output result to the user; and (e) receiving the user's selection of a command via the business system user interface, where the command prompts at least one of the interrelated business processes to make a change representative of the input setting.