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Planning Analytics
Ops, sales, marketing, HR — everyone needs business planning solutions!
Do you think planning applications are only for Finance? Au contraire, mon frère! Fast, flexible planning and analysis is for everyone!
Planning Analytics
Rolling forecasts — Aberdeen offers more reasons to adopt a proven best practice
Rolling forecasts are a well-established best practice. Now, a new knowledge brief from the Aberdeen Group identifies more of their benefits.
Planning Analytics
How agile are you? Take the 7-question Aberdeen Group assessment.
We’re often told that agility is essential in today’s volatile business environment. But agility alone doesn’t guarantee success.
Planning Analytics
Continuous planning and rolling forecasts deliver major league advantages
Continuous planning is one of the best practices that provides numerous improvements to business processes, which can deliver major benefits over time.
Planning Analytics
“What if” scenario modeling key to readiness for 2018 tax changes
Scenario modeling is one of the most interesting parts of the job for finance professionals. Scenario models enable organizations to imagine and to pr...
Planning Analytics
End-of-year finance headaches—and how to avoid them next year
The end of one year and the beginning of another is a happy time for most of us. But for those of you who work in finance, the cheer is dampened by so...
Planning Analytics
CFOs Who Ignore Continuous Planning May be Putting Their Business at Risk
UK-based analyst FSN surveyed nearly 1,000 senior finance executives from around the world and we’ve been discussing the results of that survey in the Business Analytics blog. This week we’re looking at the topic of continuous planning and rolling forecasts.
Planning Analytics
Cloud beckons, but too much planning, budgeting and forecasting remains earthbound
FSN surveyed nearly 1,000 senior finance executives and compiled the results in a report called The Future of Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting." Chapter 3 of the report addresses the promise of cloud deployment while also examining the shortfalls.