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Abstract:
Spreadsheets inhibit a company’s ability to make real-time decisions. Prone to data entry errors, information delivery delays,
and a lack of visibility, spreadsheets ultimately limit your ability to grow. While you can see your current budget, profit,
or performance through Excel, you lack the ability (...)
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Over 80 percent of consultants in service organizations consider spreadsheet-based business plan modeling inadequate. Weak
client–partner relationships reflect this inadequacy. An integrated business planning and modeling platform can provide deeper
insight into a range of strategic and operational iss (...)
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Over 80 percent of consultants in service organizations consider spreadsheet-based business
plan modeling inadequate. Weak client–partner relation... ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
How can a budget administrator, burdened with the task of gathering data from hundreds of spreadsheets from all over the
organization, manage this monumental undertaking? Additionally, how to avoid using a costly packaged budget application that
doesn’t take the organization’s business rules into con (...)
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... a costly packaged budget application that doesn’t take the organization’s business rules
into consideration? The solution: a spreadsheet automation tool ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Spreadsheets are here to stay. You depend on them to analyze data, to perform rapid calculations, and to easily model and
format information. But they can be costly to maintain, and can compromise data integrity and security. You need the ability
to provide an accurate and secure snapshot of critical bus (...)
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Getting More from Your Spreadsheets with Business Objects. Source: Business Objects. Document
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Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Companies relying on an Excel or Excel-like system need to know that, while Excel might suffice for ad hoc analysis and data
storage for individuals or small groups, the technological flaw of data and referential integrity prevents it from a corporate-wide,
collaborative effort like planning and budgetin (...)
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Companies relying on an Excel or Excel-like system need to know that, while Excel might suffice for ad hoc analysis and data
storage for individua...
Published:
2005-06-23
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Abstract:
From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System
in relation to Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application. Spreadsheets can provide rudimentary business performance
management (BPM) capabilities. But there are many reas (...)
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From Spreadsheet Chaos to an Integrated BPM Application in Six Steps.Templates and Other Package to Use In Your Complex System
in relation to Sprea...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Spreadsheets are great for accounting, but they simply don’t cut it when you need to build realistic and dynamic models of
complex business and engineering systems. What can you do when your calculations—and your need for visibility and risk management—demand
more than rows and columns? Create and (...)
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Using Simulation to Move beyond the Limitations of Spreadsheet Models. ... when you need
to build realistic and dynamic models of complex business and engineering ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Business Intelligence and Date Warehouse. Business intelligence (BI) is not a new concept. What’s new is that
BI tools are now accessible for midsize companies. Man (...)
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Business Intelligence: a Guide for Midsize Companies. Documents and Other Dynamic System to Use In Your Midsize Organization
In Relation TO Busines...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence Solutions in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses. Find Software Solutions and Applications
for Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence Solutions in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses. For many companies, a challenging
business event or critical business pain precipitates (...)
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Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence Solutions in Small and Mid-Sized Businesses. Find Software Solutions and Applications
for Calculating ROI...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Planning at the business unit level is most commonly done in spreadsheets, with cost center inputs gathered using workbook
templates that are difficult to format and consolidate. While business units can’t escape from “spreadsheet hell” using a
corporate business performance management (BPM) system (...)
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... While business units can’t escape from “spreadsheet hell” using a corporate
business performance management (BPM) system, they can streamline planning ...
Published:
2010-03-23
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Abstract:
Read about how Mayflex used IBM Cognos Express to replace a complex spreadsheet system, improve time-consuming budgeting
and forecasting processes, compare actuals against budgets at various levels, and save time for end users through automatic
system updates. (...)
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... Mayflex, Chooses IBM Cognos Express to Deliver Essential Business Intelligence and ...
used IBM Cognos Express to replace a complex spreadsheet system, improve time ...
Published:
2011-09-15
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Abstract:
Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Understand Business Intelligence and Bottom Line. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. Given that virtually all small and midsized businesses can benefit from business intelligence
(BI) tools, the real question is how much of this tec (...)
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Your Challenge: Get Decision Makers' Approval for Understand Business Intelligence and Bottom Line. Specific, Measurable,
Achievable, Relevant and ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Creating Competitive Advantage in Growing and Mid-sized Businesses with Business Intelligence. Solutions and Other Documents
to Delineate Your Buy, In Relation To Business Intelligence. Business intelligence (BI) is not only an imperative for big
companies. Growing and midsized organizations also require (...)
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spreadsheet business:
Creating Competitive Advantage in Growing and Mid-sized Businesses with Business Intelligence. Solutions and Other Documents
to Delineate Your Buy,...
Published:
2010-03-11
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... rows and columns. In this matrix form too, business users maintain business
rules, just like in a spreadsheet. Business users can ...
Published:
2009-06-04
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Abstract:
Line managers and finance staff are frustrated by the inability of spreadsheet-based planning systems to deliver useful budgets
and rolling forecasts. A major problem is the disconnect between the operational elements of business and financial plans.
What's missing is driver-based planning, a best-practi (...)
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... and finance staff are frustrated by the inability of spreadsheet-based planning ...
is the disconnect between the operational elements of business and financial ...
Published:
2010-03-11
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Abstract:
Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be an endless and arid process for business professionals. Spreadsheet-based
planning can prove to be confusing and unorganized, which only costs the company more time and money. IBM's Cognos software
can help not only reduce the time spent on planning p (...)
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Financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting can be an endless and arid process for business professionals.
Spreadsheet-based planning can prove... ...
Published:
2011-02-25
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Abstract:
While most of its applications co-opetitors have been licking their wounds and dreading another financial quarterly report,
cash amassed Microsoft has recently shown a flair for aptly devising and executing a strategy for its Microsoft Business Solutions
(MBS) division portfolio, to its partners and cust (...)
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While most of its applications co-opetitors have been licking their wounds and dreading another financial quarterly report,
cash amassed Microsoft...
Published:
2002-11-01
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Abstract:
The reality of today’s application environment is that no single application meets all of the needs of a business, or frequently
even the needs of a single business process, so multiple applications must work together to support business processes. (...)
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... There is a manual process, some form of workaround, a spreadsheet, or some other solution
that keeps the business process from being fully supported by ...
Published:
2003-02-27
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... Office UI will be bolstered with a new version of Lawson Business Intelligence (LBI
... are able to dump (export) data to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, change the ...
Published:
2008-03-11
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Abstract:
Monitoring your Business Vital Signs: a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Templates and Other Dynamic
System to Use In Your Organization with a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Keeping track of your
key business indicators is the difference between a (...)
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Monitoring your Business Vital Signs: a Guide for Engineer-to-Order and Project-Based Manufacturers. Templates and Other Dynamic
System to Use In Y...
Published:
2010-03-11