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CFOs are driving investment in analytics

The push for adoption of analytics and business intelligence tools is increasingly coming from finance chiefs and line of business managers. FSN writer Lesley Meall looks at what’s driving this.

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Who can CFOs trust to maximise their return on ERP investment?

With the global economy showing only modest prospects for growth, businesses are turning increasingly to analytical applications, performance management and business intelligence systems to give them a competitive edge. Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor visited itelligence in the UK, one of the leading independent full-range service providers dedicated to SAP software solutions to find out how they are uniquely positioned to help businesses maximise their investment.

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Adaptive Planning ranks first in customer satisfaction among all comprehensive vendors of CPM and BI in industry survey

Adaptive Planning, a provider of cloud-based business analytics solutions for companies and non-profit organizations of all sizes, has announced it ranked first in customer satisfaction among all comprehensive vendors of both CPM and BI - both cloud and on-premise - in the BPM Partners Pulse Performance Management 2013 industry survey.

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Regent's College London goes live with Adaptive Planning cloud-based CPM solution in just seven weeks

Regent’s College London has replaced its inflexible Excel-based budgeting and planning process and successfully implemented Adaptive Planning in under seven weeks from initial engagement. Adaptive Planning’s partner Clear Plan worked closely with the college’s finance department to help get the cloud-based CPM solution up and running quickly and supporting Regent College’s 50-plus budget holders.

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UNIT4 releases new task management and analytics mobile applications for Coda Financials and Agresso

UNIT4, has released the first in a series of mobile applications designed to enable Coda Financials and Agresso users to manage performance and respond to work items on the move.

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Axel Springer selects Tagetik to manage statutory consolidation processes

Tagetik, has announced that Axel Springer AG, a German newspaper and magazine publisher, has chosen a Tagetik software solution to manage its statutory consolidation processes.

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Adaptive Planning attracts $45m to further scale and outpace the field in a hot business analytics market

Adaptive Planning, yesterday announced at its Accelerate 2013 global user conference that it has secured a major new round of $45 million in venture funding. Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the global venture capital firm, led the round, with existing investors ONSET Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), RBC Venture Partners, Cardinal Venture Capital, and Monitor Ventures also participating. Adaptive Planning will use the additional capital to scale its direct sales and partner channels in North America, expand into attractive new enterprise and international markets, and drive new product innovation.

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Aviva selects Anaplan to improve global forecasting process

Aviva, the global provider of insurance, savings and investment products, has chosen Anaplan, a cloud-based, provider of budgeting, planning and forecasting solutions, to improve its group-wide forecasting process. Anaplan was selected to give Aviva\'s finance team the capability to build and maintain a cloud-based, agile enterprise-wide planning solution.

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Finance will be challenged by the new BI

Business intelligence (BI) has always been a confusing term of reference – for many – but it has never been as confusing as it is now, says FSN writer, Lesley Meall.

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Bookmans Entertainment Exchange chooses BOARD for their budgeting, planning, forecasting, operational dashboarding, and financial reporting

Bookmans Entertainment Exchange has selected BOARD for their budgeting, planning, forecasting, operational dashboarding, and financial reporting needs. Bookmans Entertainment Exchange relies on their customers for what they sell - books, music, movies, video games and systems, magazines, comics, electronics, tchotchkes, and musical instruments, and more. That's nearly 114,000 combined square feet of media recycled from the community.

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