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One Slice or Two?
It's a cheesy title, (excuse the pun) I know, but it got you to read this far.
Anaplan Launches Forecast 360 for salesforce.com users
So here it is folks, the first Anaplan App of many to come: Anaplan Forecast 360° for salesforce.com users.. We officially launched the App today.
What happened to ‘What-if?’
I’ve been seeing an increase in blog & twitter traffic around SaaS Business Intelligence (BI), predicative analytics, and better decision making lately. And it’s great that we’re making strides in information presentation and consumption. What’s missing though, to me, is a corresponding uptick in information contribution and modeling.
1000s of spreadsheets??
Everyday I learn of horror stories about the number of spreadsheets crawling around an org - in the finance dept of one larger business 400,000!! Yesterday it was 100's of workbooks on a single desk top and wasting 10 minutes to find the required version. A $100m business outsources to India its weekly management forecasting process - 8 spreadsheet jockeys employed full time just to manage a core business process. wow.
High Frequency Forecasting
Doug Smith signing in. I am thrilled to be a part of the Anaplan team. My passion for changing the way people work together to produce extraordinary outcomes can be fullfilled by virtue of the breakthrough technology that Michael Gould and team have brought to the market. This will be fun.
