Academic Overview

Business-planning software in the classroom allows professors to focus on teaching business planning, without wasting class time creating formulas and linking spreadsheets in MS Excel or combining text, tables and charts in MS Word.

Business Plan Pro is a tool for real business planning, used and respected at hundreds of colleges and universities. Its fully-linked financials are mathematically correct and focused, as they should be, on real cash flow. Principal author (Tim Berry, president of Palo Alto Software) has a Stanford MBA degree and teaches at the University of Oregon. He is also the author of books published by Harcourt Brace, McGraw-Hill, and Dow Jones-Irwin, among others.

Powerful, yet easy to use. Follow along with the EasyPlan Wizard® and your plan falls into place in no time. Want to add a little zip to your plan? Change things around? No problem. The software has the formatting power to give your plan the extra edge.

Online Software Training

Professors, instructors, and plan consultants who use our software have found that participating in an initial training session increases awareness of features that facilitate customizing the planning experience, collaboration and using the program in a team-oriented setting, as well as generally making the planning process as efficient as possible.

Palo Alto Software offers comprehensive training sessions for Business Plan Pro and Marketing Plan Pro delivered in the form of a live webinar. Whether you would like to conduct train-the-trainer sessions or schedule an initial orientation training for your students who use Palo Alto Software products, we are happy to support your educational efforts.

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