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• Cost Reduction & Scenario Based Planning

  Cost reduction and enhanced planning are hot-topics in the current economic climate. Doug Guess, CFO at Servigistics made some interesting comments in Finance Week on how bringing simple home-truths into cost management can deliver significant value back... Posted Feb 24 2009, 06:12 PM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: Financial Performance Management, planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Cost reduction

• Budgeting, Planning & Consolidation doesn't live and die with PerformancePoint

  Many of you may be aware that Microsoft have recently decided to repackage functionality previously badged as Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server (see the announcement below). Effectively they are moving the Monitoring & Analytics components... Posted Feb 03 2009, 02:00 PM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: performancepoint, planning, Budgeting, Excel

• Markets close as America decides

  So, the markets have closed on Decision-Day in the US and the Nasdaq has seen a six day rally with double-digit growth during the week. As poles indicate a strong likelihood of a White House win for Obama the markets are playing to what looks like a less... Posted Nov 04 2008, 09:28 PM by Matt Quinn with | with no comments Filed under: Financial Performance Management, Financials, analysis, planning, Budgeting, Forecasting, Obama, Nasdaq, Election

• Only 16% of firms budget accurately - are the rest in Excel-Hell?

  According to Finance Week ( http://www.financeweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=6073 ), in a survey only 16% of firms are performing budgeting accurately and highlights significant issues in the financial planning process. Apparently 76% of respondents stated... Posted Apr 15 2008, 04:27 PM by Matt Quinn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: SAP, Business Objects, Microsoft, planning, Workflow, Budgeting, Forecasting, Excel

• What is PerformancePoint Server 2007 ?

  Here is a useful document, or extract on 'what is PerformancePoint Server 2007' I think because this is relatively new technology (or a combination between new and acquired products) it does still feel like a 'release 1' and so we need... Posted Mar 17 2008, 03:01 PM by bloguser with | with no comments Filed under: performancepoint, monitoring, Microsoft, analysis, planning