How to Improve Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
This article will provide insight into some of the key features you could expect from modern corporate performance management (CPM) solutions. Are you dreading your company’s budgeting process? Are you manually exporting data from your ERP system to Excel and compiling numerous spreadsheets or are you manually formatting reports and presentations? Well, if that is you, there is hope for you! It does not have to be that way. There are solutions to improve your budgeting and re
How Scaling Companies Handle Budgeting
This article will describe how companies with multiple business units process budgets and forecasts. Scaling organizations face a multitude of challenges. Organizations having to coordinate budgets and forecasts from different data sources between multiple business units experience even greater logistical obstacles. Reaching out for manually updated spreadsheets not only takes time but it also provides too many opportunities for miscommunication. What if your organization
The Benefits of Using a Data Warehouse
This article describes the value in organizing and visualizing data. Having a clear view of your company or organization’s performance enables strategic decisions. Having access to a clear view of your company’s performance to begin with, however, can be a major obstacle for many organizations. As the big-picture of a company’s performance combines different types of data, accurately gathering and uploading data into a single location can be arduous or sometimes, impossible
Maximize Your Workflow
This article will describe the value of using workflows for budgeting processes. Automating manual processes inherently sounds like a sensible idea, but what exactly would be the most beneficial to automate? What part of the process would make the most sense? When it comes to budgeting, particularly consolidation budgeting, automation and assignments stand out as essential features of any tool you use. Automating assignments essentially translates into a feature known as “
Top Advantages of Using the Cloud
This article focuses on the benefits of using cloud-based software. Selecting the correct implementation strategy for a particular new application you are considering can be daunting. Many organizations today are adopting a “cloud first” strategy when deploying new applications, but what makes sense for your business? When thinking about the answer, hosts of other questions arise, “Does this approach work in all cases for all of my applications?” “What are the security and i
The Benefits of Budgeting with Budget Templates Part 2
This article focuses on part two of the importance of budget templates series. In part 1 of the series of The Benefits of Budgeting with Budget Templates, it is mentioned that budgeting is a topic that is not very popular in many companies, and the process may seem like a headache to many employees. Although a pain, it is necessary to communicate the importance of a budget to the entire company so the employees take ownership of it. In this article, we will continue the discu
In the Future, Will Enterprise Software and Corporate Performance Management Only Be Available in th
This article explores the realities of cloud revolutionizing the technology and business worlds, especially for enterprise software, like cloud corporate performance management solutions. In the recent years, cloud services have rapidly gained in popularity. An increasing number of organizations now choose to implement their accounting system, customer relationship management (CRM), corporate performance management (CPM), web site analytics and more using vendors’ cloud offer
Corporate Performance Management in the Future: How to Upgrade Reporting, Budgeting, Dashboards, and
The purpose of this blog entry is to help you shape a vision for the optimal decision-making platform that your company should plan for today to be ready for the future. Sure, corporate performance management (CPM) vendors will keep innovating and delivering powerful features that may not even have been requested by their customers yet, but most likely, your company has a lot of homework to do while vendors work on delivering the CPM portals and tools of tomorrow that will op
Solver Releases Enabling World-Class Decisions as First Book in Series
Solver, Inc. today announced the release of the first book in a series, Enabling World-Class Decisions, the Executive’s Guide to Understanding & Deploying Modern Corporate Performance Management Solutions. Los Angeles, CA, January 10, 2018 --(PR.com)-- Solver, Inc., the global leader in Cloud and web-based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) for mid-market ERP systems, today announced the release of the first book in a series, Enabling World-Class Decisions, the Executive’
What to Expect from the Sage Acquisition for Sage and Intacct Users
In this article, we will be discussing details about the Sage acquisition of Intacct and how that will shape financial management for both Sage and Intacct users. You heard it. On July 25th, Sage announced that it will be acquiring Intacct for $850 million, now what? Intacct currently has 11,000 customers in North America, and Sage serves 6.1 million customers worldwide. Sage and Intacct users can now expect a complete set of solutions for accounting needs of organizations of
