Build your finance transformation business case using your own numbers.
This free calculator helps CFOs and finance directors in Egypt and the GCC quantify the cost of their current planning, reporting, close, or automation processes — model the return on an Oracle EPM, BI, or Intelligent Automation investment across three scenarios — and produce a structured one-page business case they can present to their board or investment committee.
These calculations are based on your inputs and regional benchmarks from Loop Wise Solutions engagements. They produce a directional estimate, not an audited projection. We will tell you if your numbers seem out of range — and we can help you refine them before you present.
3-year modelled return
Conservative1.8×
Realistic2.9×
Optimistic4.1×
Current annual cost$420K
Payback period14 mo
Sample result
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Enter your current numbers
Tell us about your finance team's size, close cycle, and reporting workload. We use these to calculate what your current state is actually costing — in hours, in headcount, and in opportunity cost.
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See your modelled return
Based on your inputs and regional benchmarks from real engagements, the calculator models your likely ROI across three improvement scenarios: conservative, realistic, and optimistic.
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Download your business case
Enter your email and receive a formatted one-page business case summary you can use directly in a board or investment committee presentation. No account required.
Step 1 of 4 — Choose investment type
Choose your investment type to begin.
Select one investment type below. You can add a second after completing the first.
Current-state cost so far:$0per year — updates as you enter each section
Step 2 of 4 — Your Finance Team
These scenarios are based on regional benchmarks from Loop Wise Solutions engagements across Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and the GCC. Your actual outcome depends on implementation quality, organisational readiness, and scope. Want us to review your numbers? Contact us →
This calculator produces a directional estimate based on your inputs and published benchmarks. It is not a financial audit or a project guarantee. All figures should be reviewed with your finance team before being presented externally. Loop Wise Solutions can review and validate your business case as a structured engagement.
Add another investment type to your business case
You can combine EPM, BI, and Automation into a single report. Each module uses its own inputs and benchmarks — results are presented side by side.
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Want us to review your numbers before you present?
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Initial review call (60–90 minutes)
We walk through your inputs, identify any assumptions worth stress-testing, and tell you whether the numbers are in a range we recognise from similar organisations. No charge. No obligation.
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Business Case Advisory (2–4 weeks)
A structured engagement that validates your current-state cost data with your finance team, refines the scope assumptions, and produces a board-ready investment paper with agreed assumptions and named risks.
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Implementation from a position of strength
If the business case is approved, we design the implementation. The difference between organisations that run successful EPM or BI programmes and those that do not is almost always in the quality of the preparation — not the technology.
This calculator produces a directional estimate — not an audited projection — based on your inputs and regional benchmarks from Loop Wise Solutions engagements across Egypt and the GCC. The figures are designed to give you a credible starting point for a board conversation, not a number to put in a financial statement. The most reliable path to an accurate figure is to run the calculation alongside a scoped implementation estimate, which we provide after an initial conversation.
The improvement rates used in the three scenarios come from our own engagements in the region — including a close cycle reduction from 45 days to 4 days for a Gulf financial services group after EPM remediation, and a reporting cycle reduction from 14 days to 3 days for a regional organisation after BI environment redesign. The conservative scenario reflects what a careful first-year implementation typically achieves. The optimistic scenario reflects our highest-performing outcomes.
The conservative scenario models what a well-executed implementation typically achieves in its first year — usually 30–40% of the recoverable inefficiency. The realistic scenario reflects the most common outcome across our regional engagements. The optimistic scenario reflects the results achieved in our strongest remediation cases, where the implementation team had genuine business understanding, strong executive sponsorship, and clean data going in. All three are honest — we do not inflate the optimistic case to encourage a purchase.
The calculator models implementation services costs (what you pay Loop Wise Solutions to design and deliver the project) separately from software licensing (what you pay Oracle, Microsoft, or another vendor annually). Oracle Cloud EPM licensing is sized by user count and modules — see our Oracle EPM pricing guide for current indicative ranges. The business case output notes both cost components so the total investment is clear.
The one-page business case summary this tool generates is structured as a board document — it uses a format we have refined across many investment committee presentations in Egypt and the GCC. You can use it directly or as a working draft. If you want the numbers reviewed and strengthened before you present, we offer a Business Case Advisory engagement that validates your inputs, refines the scope assumptions, and produces a version you can present with confidence.
Build the case before the conversation starts.
Use your own numbers to quantify what the current state is costing — then decide whether the investment stacks up, with an honest model, not a vendor pitch.