In today’s economy, all companies are contending with a dynamic business environment characterized by volatile commodity prices and exchange rates, a shaky global financial system and slow growth in many countries. Many of them rely heavily on desktop spreadsheets to support the data collection and analysis related to their capital-asset planning. However, spreadsheets have inherent limitations that make them the wrong choice.
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Topics:
Big Data,
Planning,
SAP,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Planview,
Budgeting,
contingency,
IBM,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
agile,
capital spending
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Topics:
Planning,
SAP,
Forecast,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
budget,
Budgeting,
XBRL,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
agile,
budgeting software,
CEO,
Corporate Finance,
Financial Performance Management,
Integrated Business Planning
Alight Planning sells planning and budgeting software mainly to midsize companies and stresses its software’s ability to support a more effective approach to corporate planning and budgeting. It calls this “agile planning,” a term used to contrast a traditional, highly deterministic method of drawing up and executing plans with an “agile” mindset that is better able to deal with the high level of economic volatility that most businesses confront today. In many respects Alight’s approach is...
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Topics:
Planning,
Forecast,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
budget,
Budgeting,
CFO,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
agile,
budgeting software,
CEO,
Integrated Business Planning
