Anaplan and Pandora Team Up for Webinar on Financial Planning
Internet radio leader will discuss use of Anaplan’s cloud financial planning platform to respond more quickly to changing market conditions and customer needs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – November 29, 2012 – Anaplan and Pandora will present strategies for financial planning in the cloud during a webinar on December 12th 2012. The event will detail the Internet radio leader’s financial planning process, challenges, systems and goals, and the issues that guided its decision to use Anaplan’s cloud software. Executives from both companies will also discuss security, disaster recovery, business agility, and collaboration benefits for organizations considering cloud-based financial planning. The event is free and interested parties can register here.
In a 2012 CFO Research survey of senior finance executives at midsize and large companies, 76% said they believe cloud computing will be important to their company’s success in the next 12 to 18 months, and 71% said that it would reduce the amount of time required to bring new products and services to market. Pandora has been using Anaplan for financial planning since 2011. The company has received numerous benefits from the system, including greater financial transparency and collaboration, easier integration to other business systems, and more sophisticated financial planning.
“Moving our financial planning process to the cloud has allowed us to think and function more strategically than would have been possible with Excel or an on-premise system,” said Jared Waterman, director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Pandora. “Whereas before, our analysis was limited by staff resources and budget needed to integrate systems or enter data manually, now we have a dynamic, flexible, and easily accessible solution in the cloud. The ability to do sophisticated modeling from a highly intuitive interface helps us be more productive and respond to internal customers much faster.”
About Anaplan
Anaplan provides cloud-based planning and performance management solutions for operations and finance. The Anaplan Performance Cloud™ combines the agility of spreadsheets with the power of enterprise software. The platform enables people to intuitively model their business, derive insights, collaborate for better decisions, align operations, and execute processes in a single platform. Whether objectives are to reduce expenses, improve margins, accelerate growth, or other, results are immediate and impactful. Anaplan is funded by Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures and was awarded Gartner Cool Vendor Award in 2012 and Ventana Research Technology Operational Innovation Award for Sales Management in 2012.
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