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How much additional profit will a 10% increase in your marketing budget generate? 44% of qualified marketers have NO idea. If you fit into the 44% above, justifying your budget will be a serious challenge, as will asking for an increase. In fact, you'll likely find yourself asking the question the other way around: What will happen if my marketing budget gets cut by 10%? You can't expect your organization to place value on something you're unable to quantify. Our Definitive Guide to Marketing Metrics will help you do just that. You'll learn about: How Measurement Builds Respect and Accountability Planning for Marketing ROI A Framework for Measurement Revenue Analytics Marketing Performance Measurement The Art of Forecasting Dashboards Implementation: Team, Tactics, Technology Download the comprehensive 88-page guide and start taking your marketing to the next level.

After filing for bankruptcy in 2012, the Real Mex Restaurant Brands turned their stores’ performance and sales around with the help of HotSchedules Activity-Based Forecasting Module.

When the need for non-profit organizations to maximize impact, efficiency, and accountability is greater than ever, a modern Enterprise Resource Planning solution (ERP) can deliver an array of tangible benefits. Learn how next generation ERP can help improve efficiency, add value to projects, and improve budget forecasting.

When the need for non-profit organizations to maximize impact, efficiency, and accountability is greater than ever, a modern Enterprise Resource Planning solution (ERP) can deliver an array of tangible benefits. Learn how next generation ERP can help improve efficiency, add value to projects, and improve budget forecasting.

More than 23 million servers in the world are still running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, making it the most popular engine for serving information and applications globally for over a decade. But, starting in July 2015, Microsoft will no longer provide basic support for it.

In May of 2015, CFO Research conducted a global survey of senior finance executives at large companies, to examine the pressures they face in providing timely, accurate cash reporting and cash forecasting to business decision makers across the enterprise. This report is based on 371 survey responses from CFOs, treasurers, and other senior finance and treasury executives at companies with more than $250 million in annual revenues, representing a broad range of company segments.

AI applications and especially deep learning systems are extremely demanding and require powerful parallel processing capabilities. IDC research shows that, in terms of core capacity, a large gap between actual and required CPU capability will develop in the next several years. IDC is seeing the worldwide market for accelerated servers grow to $25.6 billion in 2022, with a 31.6% CAGR. Indeed, this market is growing so fast that IDC is forecasting that by 2021,12% of worldwide server value will be from accelerated compute. Download this IDC report to find out why organizations like yours will need to make decisions about replacing existing general-purpose hardware or supplementing it with hardware dedicated to AI-specific processing tasks.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy. It supports retail core processes end to end, starting with master data down to point-of-sales (POS) connectivity. It allows insights into operational retail data, empowering users with contextual, real time information for faster and better decision making. Processes can easily be extended to connect to business networks to form a digital ecosystem and collaboratively drive business model improvements. Equipped with a simple and intuitive user experience, the solution offers better support for headquarters users as well as store associates to drive compelling customer experiences.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy. It supports retail core processes end to end, starting with master data down to point-of-sales (POS) connectivity.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy.

With many companies finding themselves under prepared for the downturn, they turned to often poorly structured forecasts on which to make business decisions. Where are the problems? Read this white paper to learn how forecasting can help in 3 ways.

With Prophix you can produce rolling forecasts, multi-year forecasts, daily forecasts and driver-based forecasts. With a centralized application, organizing fragmented data from multiple sources and change assumptions easily and create a multitude of scenarios.

Looking for a smarter way of financial planning and budgeting? An integrated financial planning tool makes the annual budgeting process more effective and efficient, and with one centralized source of truth it is always up-to-date. Learn how Unit4 Prevero can transform your budgeting and forecasting process: from integrating operational budgets, automating key processes, supporting multiple scenario simulations, through to using artificial intelligence and deep machine learning to improve accuracy of data and power your decision making.

Looking to improve accuracy of enterprise budgeting and financial planning? Just 1% of firms can forecast costs at 90% accuracy 30 days out. This white paper by BPM Partners and sponsored by Unit4 shows how Artificial Intelligence (AI) makes a real impact on budgeting, planning, and analysis, and when complemented with deep machine learning, gives greater accuracy to data, budget rules and budget drivers. Download now and learn how AI can help auto-tune your FP&A.

Still using spreadsheets for financial planning? With multiple templates? Leading to serious versioning and collaboration difficulties? AI-driven integrated, digitized financial planning is the answer. Helping you spend less time gathering and consolidating data, and more time unearthing the key insights and accurate forecasting hidden within it. Download the white paper and find out how harnessing AI can supercharge FP&A.

Get the white paper "Mastering the Complexity of Revenue Management" to learn: • 5 specific steps you can take to ensure better compliance, improved visibility, and lower costs. • 9 key revenue management technology requirements that decision makers can't afford to miss. • Why Vendor Specific Objective Evidence (VSOE) is worrying more and more revenue managers and what you need to do about it. • 7 benefits that optimized revenue management brings to your organization, including accelerated closing, reduced revenue leakage, and forecasting visibility.

Modern solutions like CA PPM continue to raise the bar above last-generation IT demand management tools, continuously providing new features to ease the burden of the PMO, the financial manager, the resource manager and the product manager. In the last few years, new vendors looking to exploit the large and increasingly influential project and portfolio management (PPM) market have developed modules that “snap” into their SaaS platforms. These vendors claim their tools are easy to install, easy to manage and save customers money. It sounds too good to be true. And for most organizations, it is. Carefully consider whether you need a PPM solution that is only capable of providing low-level functionality for the project manager, or if your organization could benefit from PPM technology that provides 360-degree optics across your organization, delivers actionable business intelligence and enables extensive modeling and forecasting capabilities to make data-driven business decisions.

With such proven and widely recognized benefits, how many companies are using rolling forecasts today? The short answer is, it depends on whom you ask. On the whole, adoption rates range from less than 5% to over 75%, depending on how you define a true rolling forecast.

Based on in-depth research and customer interviews, the annual Nucleus Research Value Matrix map out the corporate performance management (CPM) market landscape, evaluating vendors on a matrix contrasting usability and ease-of-use versus features and depth of functionality. Read or download the 2018 edition to uncover the most up-to-date CPM landscape, to find the best finance software solution for your needs, and to see why Vena led the pack in usability to land in the Leader quadrant for the third straight year.

Discover how Vena’s partnership with Sage Intacct brings together the leader in FP&A software satisfaction and ease-of-use with the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management solutions.

Wenn Ihr Unternehmen schnell und nachhaltig wachsen soll, müssen Sie Ihre Ambitionen mit soliden Planungs-, Budgetierungs- und Forecasting (PB&F)-Prozessen und -Systemen untermauern. Diese 10 Fragen und Ihre Antworten darauf sollen Ihnen helfen, die beste Lösung für Sie zu finden.

This white paper discusses six ways to connect with high-quality candidates-from using high-quality descriptions to managing recruiting on the go, using social tools, forecasting your needs, partnering with learning managers, boosting your brand, and more. Learn how to use these approaches in your candidate search. Download your white paper today.

Analysis on the key challenges, developments, and innovations affecting corporate and business finance.

FP&A is a crucial component of the CFO’s job, but it is often frustratingly ineffective. As a result, many organisations use the data produced by finance only for compliance; their strategic decision making remains uninfluenced by it. However, the emergence of sophisticated software solutions has created new opportunities for CFOs to turn FP&A into the strategic exercise it ought to be.

Mission essential systems run on mainframes. With 71% of corporate data, it is no wonder that 63% of your peers are forecasting growth in utilization. What’s more is that the Mainframe now finds itself at an inflection point: going from being a supporting platform of transaction revenue to becoming a source of revenue growth and innovation. In fact, according to IDC Connected Mainframe adopters are realizing 300% ROI, a 10 month payback and additional $200M in application revenue. The Infographic also covers the 2 main strategies of Connected Mainframe – Modernization and Integration and technology initiatives under each with customer quotes.