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Is your Excel reporting really communicating the vital messages you want to convey?

It’s a familiar problem – all too often management reporting in Excel is a dull collection of figures assembled in lifeless columns across the page. Yet with the deft use of the ‘native’ graphics capabilities within Excel, management reporting can be turned from an inert and ineffective medium into a pointed and attention grabbing tool, focussed on the key performance indicators and management issues of the day.

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Filtronic Broadband accelerates acquisition integration with Infor

Telecommunication component manufacturer Filtronic Broadband has extended its investment in Infor ERP Business (SyteLine), following the acquisition of Isotek Holdings. ERP Business will boost productivity across the new entity and help reduce manufacturing costs, freeing up time to focus on driving the business forward.

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Oracle to stop selling Oracle Hyperion Enterprise by the end of 2012

Oracle has just announced that Oracle Hyperion Enterprise, the consolidation workhorse of the global 2,000 will no longer be sold after the end of this year. At that time, additional sales of Oracle Hyperion Enterprise and Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Reporting will be restricted to existing customers only. The popular product which has been the mainstay of financial reporting in so many companies will effectively be ‘frozen’ in time at version 6.5.1.1 But Oracle emphasises that although there will be no new releases of the software, the product will enjoy continuing support under its ‘sustaining’ support programme after April 2013.

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Only 11% of accountants believe their organisation has processes in place to manage spreadsheet risk

Organisations are still putting themselves at considerable financial and reputational risk by failing to properly control the way they use spreadsheets, according to new research undertaken by Protiviti. The global consulting firm polled 100 ICAEW Chartered Accountants in December 2011.

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UNIT4 acquires MentecPlus

UNIT4 Business Software Ltd, the UK division of UNIT4, has acquired MentecPlus Integrated Solutions Ltd, sole distributor of Agresso Business World in Ireland since 1998. The acquisition also includes the IP for the M+ suite of products which are widely used throughout the UK & Ireland and internationally. The company will be renamed UNIT4 Business Software Ireland and will continue to sell and support both the Agresso Business World and Coda Financials product lines in Ireland.

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KPMG lifting the fog on fears over cloud

KPMG says that more than half of UK businesses are concerned about the safety of their data as cloud computing takes off but their fear is not preventing adoption, with 23 per cent of CIOs already using the cloud and a further 53 percent planning to do so within the next 12 months.

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Victoria Carpets chooses Opera 3 from Pegasus Software for growth and integrated payroll and HR

Victoria Carpets has selected Pegasus’ Opera 3 solution including Payroll & HR, Document Management and Pegasus XRL Reporting – the excel reporting tool. The Midlands-based carpet manufacturer will use Opera 3 to achieve greater automation and accuracy in its payroll, and deliver superior management information to the business. Having gone out to tender for a fully integrated payroll and HR system, Victoria Carpets selected Opera 3 based on its breadth of functionality, flexibility and intuitive user interface. Crucially the system will provide comprehensive payslip information for the company’s 300 employees, as well as management information to aid reporting and planning.

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Oracle delivers new mobile applications for Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Oracle this week announced new mobile apps for users of its JD Edwards ERP system. The new apps cover requisitioning and self service approval, purchase order approval and sales enquiry capability. Oracle says the investment in mobile capability is all designed to extend user choice and help improve productivity by delivering management solutions that can be accessed at any time or from anyplace.

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UNIT4 gives FSN an update on its plans to "disrupt" the performance management software market

Last week UNIT4, the owner of two key financial management packages, Agresso and CODA announced plans to “disrupt” the performance management software market in 2012 with what it says is a completely new approach to delivering business analytics, i.e. turnkey, rapidly deployed, business performance solutions available on a pay-as-you-use basis from a dedicated app store. Gary Simon, FSN’s managing editor caught up with Ton Dobbe, Vice president, Product Marketing for UNIT4, to discover exactly what UNIT4 has in mind.

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Chesterfield Borough Council to manage performance with Intuitive Dashboards

Chesterfield Borough Council is implementing Intuitive Dashboards, the dashboard solution from Intuitive Business Intelligence to provide real-time graphical dashboard views of the Borough Council’s performance against their corporate plan. The implementation will leverage information in the Council’s Agresso Business World System.

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