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HCL Marketing Operations User Guide
HCL® Marketing Operations is a tool for enterprise planning, collaboration, and workflow that provides a complete solution for the needs of marketers. You can use Marketing Operations to get a comprehensive and holistic view of all marketing projects across your company.
In HCL® Marketing Operations, a budget coordinates expenses of plans, programs, and projects. After you establish the plan budget, you can fund linked programs, and ultimately projects, from it. Marketing Operations tracks budgets of child programs and projects in the form of allocations, forecasted or committed spending, and actual expenses.
Although you can plan your budget by using either top-down or bottom-up methods, the flow of actual money travels down the linked plan, program, project hierarchy. Regardless of how you plan your expenses, plans fund programs, which fund projects, which in turn fund any child or subprojects.

Budget funding

Although you can plan your budget by using either top-down or bottom-up methods, the flow of actual money travels down the linked plan, program, project hierarchy. Regardless of how you plan your expenses, plans fund programs, which fund projects, which in turn fund any child or subprojects.

Hierarchy of a plan to programs to projects and subprojects image

For more information about budget planning, see Planning budgets from the top down and Planning budgets from the bottom up.

Note: Since stand-alone programs and projects are not linked to plans, they have their own budgets that you enter directly on their respective budget tabs.