Strategic Go-to-Market Partner for the UK and Ireland

Power BI planning and writeback. It doesn't compete with your Microsoft stack. It completes it.

Budget, forecast and plan inside Power BI, on the Fabric and Azure foundation you already own. Every figure written back to one governed source. No more shadow spreadsheets.

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The problem

The gap AccoTool closes

Power BI shows your business the truth. On its own, it cannot let anyone act on it.

Your team sees the number, agrees it needs a plan against it, and does the planning somewhere else. Usually Excel. That spreadsheet becomes the real source of the budget, and the governed estate you invested in has been bypassed.

This is the Power BI writeback gap. It is why so many finance teams trust their reporting and still budget in Excel.

AccoTool closes it. Planning, budgeting, forecasting, master data and the commentary behind every figure happen inside the Power BI report, without leaving it, and every entry is written straight back to the governed database.

One source. One version. No leak. Enterprise planning inside Power BI, without the enterprise price.

What's possible

What your team can do inside Power BI

Once writeback is live, Power BI stops being a place people look at and becomes a place people work.

Budget and forecast in the report

Top-down targets and bottom-up input in the same model. Roll forecasts forward monthly without rebuilding anything. Every figure logged with who entered it and when. This is budgeting and forecasting in Power BI, not a separate application.

Plan your people and your spend

Headcount and salary planning that recalculates as drivers change. CapEx and OpEx planning with approval routing built in.

Own your master data in one place

Dimensions, hierarchies and lists maintained inside the report, with validation, so the same structure governs every plan. No separate master-data chore.

Capture the why, not just the number

Threaded comments attached to the exact cell, saved with the data. When someone asks why the forecast moved, the answer sits next to the figure, not lost in an email.

Where it fits

On Fabric and Azure, not beside them

AccoTool is not another platform to buy and bolt on. It is the planning and write-back layer of the Microsoft estate we already build.

The foundation sits on Azure and Microsoft Fabric: clean, governed, one source of truth. The reporting sits on Power BI: the numbers your leadership team can finally trust. AccoTool writes the plan back to that same foundation, so the budget lives where the truth lives.

You are not standing up a separate budgeting system with its own copy of the data and its own version of the truth. You are extending the estate you already have, so planning inherits the same governance, the same security and the same single source as your reporting. This is Power BI write-back on Microsoft Fabric, done as one governed estate rather than a bolt-on.

If you have already invested in Fabric and Power BI, this is how budgeting and forecasting leave Excel without any of that investment going to waste.

Governed data flows upFabric and Azure feed Power BI
People plan on the numberBudgets and forecasts inside the report
The plan writes back downTo one governed source - no spreadsheets
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The numbers your leadership team can finally trust.

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Planning and writeback

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Foundation

Azure and Microsoft Fabric

Clean, governed, one source of truth.

It doesn't compete with your Microsoft stack. It completes it.

Hopton  ·  AccoTool Partner, UK & Ireland

AI-native

Built for AI, not bolted onto it

AccoTool is AI-native. Planning solutions that used to take a consultant weeks to hand-build can be drafted from a plain-language prompt.

Describe the plan you need, and AccoTool's Skills guide Claude or Microsoft Copilot through the whole build: the writeback tables, the semantic model, the DAX measures, the report layout and the writeback configuration. A controller reviews and refines from there, instead of waiting weeks for a first budget line. No-code budgeting in Power BI, drafted by prompt.

Because AccoTool captures the commentary and context behind every figure, it does more than build faster. It feeds your AI the one thing it usually lacks: the reasoning behind the numbers, not only the numbers. That is what turns a forecast into something an AI assistant can reason about.

For you, it means planning solutions stood up faster and cheaper than the old hand-built route, and a governed, AI-ready planning layer rather than a black box.

Our partnership

Why Hopton

Hopton is AccoTool's Strategic Go-to-Market Partner for the UK and Ireland. We are the team that implements it, tailors it to how your business actually plans, and connects it to the Fabric and Azure foundation underneath.

We are Microsoft data and analytics specialists, not generalists. We build the whole estate: strategy and governance, the Azure and Fabric platform, the Power BI reporting, and now the planning and writeback layer that closes the loop. One partner is accountable for the whole chain, from raw data to the budget your board signs off. If you have weighed Power BI against dedicated FP&A software, this is how you get planning and forecasting on the Power BI you already run.

AccoTool licences are bought through Microsoft AppSource, so there is no lock-in through us. What we bring is the implementation, the estate it plugs into, and the ongoing data function that keeps it trustworthy.

Book a free audit and we will show you where the writeback gap is costing you, and what closing it looks like on your data.

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Common questions

Questions we get asked

Writeback, also written write-back, lets people enter and change data inside a Power BI report and save it straight back to the underlying database, instead of Power BI being read-only. AccoTool adds writeback to Power BI, so budgeting, forecasting and planning happen in the report and update one governed source.
Yes. With AccoTool, budgets, rolling forecasts, headcount and CapEx or OpEx planning all run inside the Power BI report, with approval routing and a full audit trail of who entered each figure and when. There is no separate budgeting application to log into.
Yes, and that is usually the point. AccoTool keeps planning on the same governed data as your reporting, so budgeting and forecasting move out of Excel and into Power BI, with one source and a complete audit trail, without the cost of a heavyweight enterprise planning platform.
Dedicated FP&A and EPM platforms mean a separate system, a separate copy of your data, and enterprise pricing. AccoTool gives you enterprise-grade planning inside the Power BI and Fabric estate you already run, at a fraction of the cost, so you do not add another silo to govern.
No. AccoTool sits on top of the Power BI, Fabric and Azure estate you already have and extends it with a planning and write-back layer, so planning inherits the same governance as your reporting.
Through Microsoft AppSource, on a per-user basis. Hopton provides the implementation, tailoring and the estate it connects to, along with the ongoing support to keep it trustworthy.
Yes. Hopton is AccoTool's Strategic Go-to-Market Partner for the UK and Ireland, and the team that implements and supports it across both markets.
Because AccoTool is AI-native, a working writeback solution can be drafted in a single session rather than built by hand over weeks. We start with a free audit to find where planning is leaking out of your estate, then scope the fastest route to closing it.

Ready to close the writeback gap?

Bring the spreadsheets, the budget process and the systems involved. In a free audit, we will show you where planning is leaking out of your estate and what closing it looks like.

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