Europa

Europa is a forecast consolidation and reporting solution specifically tailored to worldwide media distribution. The goal of Europa is continuous visibility to every dollar of revenue through the full lifecycle from forecast to actual without requiring manual updates to avoid double counting as forecast becomes contracted and contracted is recognized. This is accomplished through Europa's automatic balancing logic which identifies the "same" revenue coming from multiple sources and updates the status accordingly. Automating the forecast maintenance, allows anyone at any time to see the current forecast as well as the status of every dollar and compare this against a planned budget or a snapshot from a previous time period all at any level of detail. Europa also includes industry standard revenue recognition rules which are applied to forecast and future revenue for the most accurate revenue timing projections possible. To support budget tracking and variance analysis, Europa's budget and snapshot management features including budget approval workflow rules, versioning, planned and ad-hoc snapshots as well as budget and snapshot specific exchange rates. Europa's data model has been proven at multiple major studios to support license and fee data at different levels of granularity; from territory, media and category forecast estimates to license level fees. The data model is leveraged by Europa's built in reporting tool which provides the ability to slice and dice data for rolled up executive summary reports or detailed drill-down license level reports. The reports also include built in calculations for variance analysis, reporting in local or USD amounts, per episode fees, episode counts and more. Access to the data can be secured by any combination of attributes. In addition to the built-in reporting, Europa is also an ideal source of consolidated budget and forecast data for other systems and reporting solutions. Data can also be accessed directly or through provided APIs.