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- SAP acquires OutlookSoft for corporate performance management
- SAP acquires OutlookSoft for corporate performance managementVirsai'm sure you've no doubt heard back on this subject by now, but SAP acquired Virsa, not Versa. Just FYI.Earl
- Tags: Business intelligence, Virsa, SAP AG, OutlookSoft, corporate performance management
- Discussion threads 2007-05-09
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- SAP acquires OutlookSoft for corporate performance management
- SAP doesnt go after the big fish like its rival Oracle, but it occasionally picks up a relatively smaller strategic acquisition. OutlookSoft will give SAP another entry point, beyond its core ERP software, into the CFO office with corporate performance management solution, covering planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation. OutlookSoft is...
- Tags: SAP, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- Long Live the Spreadsheet: Leveraging Microsoft Excel for Effective BPM
- Microsoft Excel is the de facto language of business. For nearly a quarter of a century, spreadsheets have helped businesspeople of all stripes communicate their past performance as well as their expectations for the future. In many companies, everyone from the CEO down to the financial analysts and the line-of-business...
- Tags: BPM, OutlookSoft, Microsoft Corp., Spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel, Productivity, Business Process Automation, Microsoft Office, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, It Operations, Finance
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Long Live the Spreadsheet!: Leveraging Microsoft Excel for Effective Corporate Performance Management
- Microsoft Excel is the de facto language of business planning, reporting and analysis. For nearly quarter of a century, senior managers, financial analysts, and even non-financial personnel have relied on Excel to analyze numbers, budget projects, forecast outcomes, and model scenarios. Yet despite this, the spreadsheet has come under increasing...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Microsoft Corp., Corporate Performance Management, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- White papers 2004-04-01
- OutlookSoft Case Study: Albacom
- Founded in 1995 through a strategic partnership involving BT British Telecommunications and Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Albacom is a leading Italian provider of telecommunications dedicated to business at a national and international level. Albacom required a unified, centralized budgeting and forecasting system, one that incorporated year-to-date YTD data for monthly...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Sales, Finance
- Case studies
- OutlookSoft Case Study: Interactive Data Corporation
- Interactive Data Corporation (NYSE: IDC) is a leading global provider of securities pricing, financial information, and analytic tools to institutional and individual investors. As a result of global growth, Interactive Data faced the challenge of finding a forecasting and budgeting solution that would generate more comprehensive and less manually intensive...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Performance Management, Financial Services, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Case studies
- OutlookSoft Case Study: US Sugar
- United States Sugar Corporation is one of America's most widely diversified, privately held agribusiness firms. A diverse company with multiple business units, US Sugar was looking for relief in the traditional areas of financial reporting and budgeting. US Sugar conducted a rigorous review of competing solutions before choosing OutlookSoft Everest...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, OutlookSoft Everest, Financial Planning, Personal Finance, Performance Management, Financial Services, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Combining SAP and BusinessObjects
- Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP and John Schwartz, CEO of BusinessObjects today parried questions about SAPs proposed acquisition of BusinessObjects but as always we are left with open questions. The most significant part of the discussion cut across several questions Larry Dignan left hanging in the wind earlier today: ...
- Tags: Acquisition, SAP AG, BusinessObjects, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Tags: business intelligence, Joshua Greenbaum, Microsoft Corp., tool, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- News to know: Centrino; Vista's first 100 days; Web content DNA
- Notable headlines:Intels new Centrino for work and play.Ryan Naraine: Its an all critical Patch Tuesday. Mac hack challenge sparks another debate.Mary Jo Foley: Microsofts state of Vista: The first 100 days.Will the feds phase out traditional lightbulbs? Review: Samsung LN-T4665F right.Donna Bogatin: Web content DNA Map: Copyright control, monetization...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Will Aussie patents turn Wi-Fi into a house of cards?
- Get ready for the WiFi tax. Theres no way vendors can back away from the Wi-Fi "standard" (in other words, this is a house of cards that probably wont come down) even though it appears as if the 54 mbps Wi-Fi standards 802.11a and 802.11g as well as the...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, OFDM, WIRELESS, CSIRO, patent, Wi-Fi, Tyler
- Blog posts 2006-11-21
- Bank of America Division Automates Forecasting, Cuts Time on Reports by 98 Percent
- Bank of America offers financial services targeted to commercial and individual consumers. The Consumer Real Estate CRE Division of Bank of America provides mortgage loans to homebuyers, and adjusts its staffing levels according to fluctuating interest rates and real estate. But manual data collection and analysis were slow and inaccurate,...
- Tags: Bank Of America Corp., Microsoft Corp., Forecasting, Mortgages, Sales Force Management, Databases, Enterprise Software, Finance, Capital Structures, Sales, Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Nutrition Specialist Centralizes Reporting for Enhanced Operational Efficiency
- Leading European baby food and nutritional product provider Royal Numico reorganized its corporate structure in 2004. However, with a range of financial and accounting applications in place, it could no longer create timely, accurate reports on corporate performance. To address this issue, the company decided to deploy a new, centralized...
- Tags: Nutrition, Financial, Microsoft Corp., Nutrition Specialist, Business Intelligence, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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