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Vocus Improves Investor Confidence With Adaptive Planning

Vocus has been public for the past three years, but despite this strong growth, they continue to operate a lean global operation with a little more than 400 employees. Vocus wanted to compare actuals to forecast and quickly spot areas for corrective action and create a collaborative model for budget...

Tags: Vocus Inc., Adaptive Planning, Research & Development, Business Operations

Case studies 2008-09-17

SourceForge Creates Collaborative Financial Process With Adaptive Planning

Combining user-developed content, online marketplaces, and e-commerce, SourceForge is the global technology community's nexus for information exchange, goods for developers and IT personnel, and open source software distribution and services. SourceForge wanted to replace a budgeting solution consisting of 17 linked spreadsheets and involve department heads in the planning process....

Tags: Financial, SourceForge, Adaptive Planning, Software As A Service (SaaS), Financial Services, Open Source, Emerging Technologies

Case studies 2008-09-17

Red Cross Responds to Spreadsheet Emergency With Adaptive Planning

The American Red Cross in Greater New York Chapter helps nine million people prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies. American Red Cross wanted to increase the efficiency and flexibility of the budgeting process and minimize opportunities for human error in budgeting activities. The challenge was to expand budgeting capabilities...

Tags: Budgeting, Red Cross, Spreadsheet, Adaptive Planning, Financial Services

Case studies 2008-09-17

UTI Streamlines Budget Changes by 90% With Adaptive Planning

With a mission of delivering a competitive advantage to each client's supply chain, UTi has grown to become a $4.5 billion enterprise. UTi wanted to increase visibility into the budgeting process across 63 countries and 200 reporting entities and prevent tedious manual changes at the end of the fiscal year....

Tags: Budgeting, Adaptive Planning, UTI, Financial Services

Case studies 2008-09-02

Vicor Powers an Efficient Budget Process With Adaptive Planning

Vicor has been a leading manufacturer of power conversion components and systems since its founding in 1981. Vicor wanted to increase participation in the budget process across the company and eliminate the need for the accounting department to reformat hundreds of budget sheets. The challenge was to streamline the budgeting...

Tags: Process, Accounting, Adaptive Planning, Vicor, Financial Services, Operational Accounting, Finance

Case studies 2008-08-05

Unitrin Direct Finds a Flexible Planning Solution With Adaptive Planning

Unitrin Direct provides its customers with outstanding service and quality coverage at competitive prices. Unitrin Direct wanted to minimize operating costs and pass savings on to customers and eliminate tedious manual tasks from the strategic planning process. The challenge was to introduce multidimensionality to planning models. Unitrin Direct focused on...

Tags: Adaptive Planning, Unitrin Direct, Strategic Planning, Strategy, Productivity, Management

Case studies 2008-08-05

Adaptive Planning seeks profit in free hosted version

Adaptive Planning seeks profit in free hosted versionhow long do they plan to stay in businessIs it unlimited bandwidth or are they going to say 1MB a month.How about free support too.

Tags: Adaptive Planning

Discussion threads 2007-04-05

Adaptive Planning seeks profit in free hosted version

So free and open source software isnt good enough for your business? You want it hosted free, too? You got it. Adaptive Planning, an open source Business Performance Management company, is now offering free hosting.Adaptive Planning Express carries a GPL 2.0 license. CEO William Soward said the aim is to...

Tags: GPL, General, business models, Applications, Strategy, Software as a Service, resellers, marketing

Blog posts 2007-04-05

Open source seeks the top of the stack

One of the big open source stories of 2006 is the move beyond base applications to the top of the enterprise application stack.Adaptive Planning, for instance, is using open source and free software techniques to gain traction against rivals like Business Objects and Cognos. At LinuxWorld this week it announced...

Tags: open source, Bill Soward

Blog posts 2006-08-17

Additional Resources

Interesting things I've been briefed on lately...

NetSuite, CA, iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Project Open,.... NetSuite has some new financial consolidation/planning functionality in their SaaS solution. It permits global firms to handle currency conversion. Adaptive Planning’s software is at the core of this solution. This technology does not currently use...

Tags: Food, Open Source, Information Technology, NetSuite Inc., Computer Associates International Inc., iTrade Network, Meridian Project Systems, UC4, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-09-15

HP Adaptive Infrastructure Solution Security: For HP BladeSystem Matrix

The HP BladeSystem Matrix Matrix solution is an in the box, cloud infrastructure that brings the economics, scalability, and response times of the cloud to diverse applications across data center. The BladeSystem Matrix combines capacity planning, disaster recovery, and automated provisioning with a self-service portal into one command center. This...

Tags: Security, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Infrastructure Inc., Data Centers, Storage, Portals, Hardware, Data Management, Internet

White papers 2009-08-01

NetSuite + AdaptivePlanning = BPM disruption

This slipped under the radar but on June 10th NetSuite and AdaptivePlanning announced a marketing and integration partnership that will see NetSuite acting as a reseller for AdaptivePlanning's business performance management BPM solution. Why should this matter? So far, the saas/on-demand transaction app...

Tags: BPM, Business Performance Management, NetSuite Inc., Adaptive, Business Intelligence, Sales Strategy, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-01

HP answers Cisco with Matrix; Data center visions galore

Hewlett-Packard on Monday unveiled its answer to making data centers more modular and more cost effective and the target is pretty clear: Cisco Systems. HP's latest entry into the data center wars is dubbed the BladeSystem Matrix and Matrix Orchestration Environment. These products reside in HP's Adaptive...

Tags: Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Vision, Server, Cisco Systems Inc., BladeSystem Matrix, Storage Lineup, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

HP Logical Server Management: Best Practices

The HP Insight Dynamics - VSE solution introduced support for logical servers, and the 4.1 release further enhanced their capabilities. HP logical server technology further enables system administrators to create an Adaptive Infrastructure, allowing their IT environment to respond quickly to changing business needs. Logical servers are a new class...

Tags: Server Management, Hewlett-Packard Co., Best Practice, Servers, Hardware

White papers 2009-01-01

MSDN Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: Creating Adaptive Applications for Windows Mobile Devices (Level 300)

One of the key issues that Windows Mobile developers face is the issue of application compatibility across the range of Windows Mobile devices. As new devices are released, they introduce many new features. Successfully developing and deploying Windows Mobile applications requires up-front planning for compatibility across devices. The presenter of...

Tags: Microsoft Developer Network, Application Development, Microsoft Windows Mobile, Webcast, Mobile, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Handhelds, Software, Hardware

Webcasts 2008-09-24

Is power your weakest link in data center flexibility? Key considerations for power systems in adaptive IT environments

Flexible. Adaptive. These are the hottest buzzwords in IT infrastructures today. The power infrastructure must be flexible and adaptable too. In most cases, power is not a focal point in IT planning, so the power chain can be strained to meet large fluctuations in power demand. Download...

Tags: IT Environment, Data Center, Information Technology, Eaton Corp., Data Centers, Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management

White papers 2008-09-08

Adaptive Contact Planning: Building Customer Trust and Value Through Improved Contact Policy Management

There is tremendous value in establishing a contact policy. Managing the recency and frequency of customer communications can help build trust with customers as well as increase the value of these customers. However, the contact policy is of little value if it is not comprehensive enough to adapt to changing...

Tags: SAS Institute

White papers 2008-09-01

An Event Apart 2008: Day 2

The second day of An Event Apart will feature plenty of web standards jargon. I will be posting photos and notes from today's events. Unfortunately, the slides are reserved for attendees only, but I will try to gather as much information as...

Tags: Google Inc., Microformat, Tool, Post-it Note, Eric Meyer, CSS, Productivity, Keyboards, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Hardware, Peripherals, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-19

Inter-Cell Interference Management in WiMAX Downlinks by a Stackelberg Game Between BSs

A game theoretic framework is developed for effective and adaptive inter-cell interference management in the OFDMA-based WiMAX/3GPP-LTE systems. Such approach requires no fixed spectrum planning beforehand and does not affect the spectrum usage for users that are not subject to inter-cell interference. Based on the handoff mechanisms in WiMAX systems,...

Tags: BSS, WiMAX

White papers 2008-05-27

Can Deep Green help a combat commander?

University of Southern California USC researchers are developing several parts of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA Deep Green program. Their efforts are intended to help commanders on the battlefield to anticipate enemy moves. 'The system interweaves anticipatory planning with adaptive execution to help the commander think ahead, identify...

Tags: Program, Battlefield, DARPA, Corporate Governance, Data Mining, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-01