Business Planning Software
Quickly develop and publish comprehensive business plans that will help guide your business and get funding. Business Plan Pro is the bestselling software for business plans--outselling all competing packages combined.
Benefits
New features in the 2008 version include:
- Improved error checking
- Support for plans in Spanish
- Updated user interface
- Management dashboard
- One-click chart customization
- Easier progress tracking
- and much more!
Develop a plan quickly.
The Easy Plan Wizard(TM) leads you through all steps in the process of developing a business plan. Includes over 400 professional business plan samples to give you concrete examples for a variety of industries to help jumpstart the planning process.
Develop a professional, customized, comprehensive plan that fits your business and industry.
Marketing and sales strategy, break-even analysis, competitive analysis, product plans, financial plans, market segment analyses, ratio analysis, management team descriptions and much more are easily incorporated into the plan. Comparable statistics on over 8,000 industries are included to help validate assumptions and compare to others in the industry.
Quickly find investors to fund your business.
Business Plan Pro's format has been developed to meet the strict standards of Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Bank Loan Officers, and the SBA--it can be tailored depending on the funding source. Search through a database of over 1,200 venture capital firms. Publish your business plan to a secure, password-protected web site for your potential investors.
View a sample business plan!
Extras include:
The book, "Hurdle: The book on Business Planning" and online access to "On Target: The Book on Marketing Plans" and an ebook titled "InSite: The Book on Web Planning".
Reviews/Testimonials
PC World: "Business Plan Pro gives you all the tools you need to create a polished, professional-looking plan. It also provides a solid information background with a business planning workbook by Palo Alto Software founder Tim Berry and a business startup guide by former Apple Computer strategist Guy Kawasaki."
BlackEnterprise.com: "...Business Plan Pro packs in a ton of features for a small price. It even includes links to U.S. census data, an optional eBay module, and the ability to upload your plan to the password-protected SecurePlan.com, and allow others to access it online."
Accounting Today: "More robust than its competitors, the program's strength lies in its extensive library of more than 400 sample business plan templates, segregated by industry, and in its excellent analytical capabilities. . .Business Plan Pro 2003 should be part of an accountant's toolkit for business planning and analysis."
Small Business Computing: "In look and feel, BPP resembles tax software — such as Intuit's TurboTax — on steroids. The wizard asks a series of questions that include: start date, the type of business you are creating, cash versus accrual accounting and lots more, and provides explanations and resources, usually with each step. It effectively walks you through the process of building a plan and even refers you to specific chapters in the enclosed books."
PC Magazine: "Palo Alto Software's Business Plan Pro has always been the best overall business plan creation program. . . It still remains the program to beat for business plan creation and dissemination."
ZDNet.com, Small Business Advisor: "Palo Alto's Business Plan Pro typically gets the nod from those in the know. My vote goes to this package, too."
Entrepreneur Magazine: "Business Plan Pro from Palo Alto Software is a great example of an out-of-box solution that is user-friendly and produces a formatted final product you can circulate among potential investors."
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