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How To Solve Your Budgeting and Reporting Challenges
Many companies today utilize some form of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System to integrate information across various departments such as sales, finance, manufacturing etc. However merging...
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Constructing an Optimized Project Performance Management Solution
With the World Cup over–and what a great final match it was!–Brazilians (once they get over their team’s collapse) will surely refocus on the huge cost overruns and un-readiness of the building...
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PowerOLAP Q&A
Folks, there is a LOT you can do with PowerOLAP. Even people who have been using it for years aren’t fully aware of all the capabilities available within PowerOLAP. Perhaps you are a user of PowerOLAP...
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Coming Soon! Reporting Manager Live: an FRX and Management Reporter Replacement
The PARIS Development team has been hard at work creating this new product. Reporting Manager Live™ is designed to deliver report writer results in a very graceful way. What we’ve learned is that using...
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*Update* Reporting Manager Live: FRX and Management Reporter Replacement
This is a follow up to a recent post on PARIS’ latest product: Reporting Manager Live. There is now a video available with a brief demonstration of the capabilities of Reporting Manager Live to do...
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How can You Leverage Existing Software Applications?
“I have 10 different software applications, why can’t they work together seamlessly?” Well, they actually can. How much more could you get out of your data if all of your different applications...
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Optimized Performance Management for the Construction Industry
Are you trying to keep track of progress, costs, resources utilization, timeliness, “at completion” and other important KPIs? You probably rely on some standard reports obtainable from your ERP system,...
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The Importance of Planning and Forecasting in BI
The budgeting and forecasting process for most organizations is long and tedious and occurs on an annual basis, at least. Companies try to do it more often to improve accuracy and aim to ultimately...
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ERPs and Budgeting—What the Excel?!
In relation to most ERP systems, Excel is an elemental component of how they provision budgeting capabilities. But is it enough for large firms need to accomplish their complex planning needs?
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Can CFOs Really Benefit from Business Intelligence Services? (hint:...
They must consider revenue targets; gross margin goals; keeping costs down while increasing sales funnels; investment opportunities; business risk areas ... The post Can CFOs Really Benefit from...
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PowerExcel: Making What’s Complicated in Budgeting Simple
Not all firms budget, but nearly all that do use Excel. This is true for firms of all sizes, across all industries, and around the world. The post PowerExcel: Making What’s Complicated in Budgeting...
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Top-Down Bottom-Up Budgeting with PowerExcel
If you've built your models in Excel, this becomes very difficult. You need to go down to the bottom, change some assumptions, roll it all up, and check if you have the number that management wants. If...
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Pivot Table vs. PowerExcel Pivot
If you've built your models in Excel, this becomes very difficult. You need to go down to the bottom, change some assumptions, roll it all up, and check if you have the number that management wants. If...
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