Forecasting in Power BI usually stops at a trend line. Useful for direction, useless for commitment, because nobody can adjust it with knowledge the model does not have.
Forecasting software closes that loop by letting planners override, comment and commit their own numbers inside the report.
From projection to committed forecast
accoPLANNING renders an editable forecast grid on your existing model. A sales lead adjusts a region, a controller spreads a phasing, and the values write back to SQL Server in real time under a named forecast version.
A forecast becomes a plan the moment someone puts their name on the number.
Rolling forecasts without rebuild work
Because plan rows carry the same transaction keys as actuals, each new forecast round slots into the same model. No new dataset, no new report, no reconciliation between reporting and planning views.
Explain the movement
accoCOMMENT attaches the reason for each adjustment to the row itself, so the forecast review works from evidence instead of recollection.
What you need
- A SQL Server, Azure SQL or Fabric SQL writeback table.
- Scenario and version columns on plan rows.
- Row-level security matching forecast ownership.
- accoPLANNING from Microsoft AppSource, with a 30-day trial.
