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- 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, Microsoft Office, Business Process Automation, Office Suites, Software, It Operations
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Unified Corporate Performance Management & the Application of Predictive Analytics
- Actionable information on every manager's desktop is an oft talked about - but rarely achieved - goal of most businesses and the software vendors that serve them. Numerous vendors have attempted to address this issue through a litany of solutions including "enterprise information systems EIS", "analytic applications", and "business intelligence"....
- Tags: Predictive Analytics, OutlookSoft, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management
- White papers 2005-01-01
- Huntswood Outsourcing Solutions - A Company That's Going Places
- Huntswood Outsourcing Solutions specialises in supplying outsourcing solutions to financial services clients including many of the major pension providers, insurance companies, banks and building societies. Personal contact with clients is a vital part of Huntswood Outsourcing Solutions' service, and the company's consultants and senior management spend much of their time...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Huntswood Outsourcing Solutions, Outsourcing, Insurance, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Corporate Insurance, Finance
- Case studies
- OutlookSoft Case Study: SPL WorldGroup
- Established in 1994, SPL WorldGroup is a leading provider of best-of-breed customer management solutions to the energy and service related industries in regulated and competitive markets worldwide. The need for an improved and centralized planning and performance management process was imperative. In the search for a comprehensive planning and performance...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- Performance Analysis Runs on Telecom's Wires
- The recent decision to review reporting processes was made by Telecom Italia in order to expedite and facilitate economic and financial analyses for the entire group. The project was initiated with the objective of creating uniformity in the language used to perform reporting, while at the same time ensuring that...
- Tags: Provider, Performance, OutlookSoft, Telecommunications, Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Microsoft Windows 2000, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows
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- 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, Performance Management, Financial Services, Finance, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- Watkins Keeps Financials Out of Hot Water
- Watkins Manufacturing Corp. manufactures hot springs spas, the world's number one selling brand of portable hot tubs. Business was booming for the spa company, but executives wanted to ensure that company financials remained strong and out of hot water with a comprehensive budgeting and forecasting system. The biggest challenge that...
- Tags: Financials, OutlookSoft, Forecasting, Watkins, Sales Force Management, Sales
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Zucchi Group
- Founded in 1920 as a business producing household linen, the Zucchi Group has grown to become a market leader in the home textiles sector. A sweeping process was initiated to modernize the IT systems throughout the entire Zucchi Group. After reviewing a number of solutions, the shortlist was narrowed to...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- OutlookSoft Scores a Financial "Box Office" Homerun for Artisan Entertainment Using Enterprise Analytic Portal (EAP) Solution
- Since its inception in 1997, Artisan, the leading independent producer and distributor of theatrical, television and home entertainment products, has experienced wide success as a result of its philosophy dedicated to maximizing the value of existing assets, strategic growth, innovative acquisitions, and containment of corporate expenses. As part of Artisan's...
- Tags: Financial, Microsoft Office, OutlookSoft, Home Entertainment, Business Intelligence, Financial Services, Enterprise Software, Personal Technology, Software, Data Management
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- Trambus Has Chosen the Outlooksoft Business Performance Management Solution
- Trambus is currently Italy's largest public transport company. Trambus combines the professional competence it has acquired from decades of experience in Roman transport with the will to compete in the transportation market both in Italy and abroad. In the process of continuing change towards greater efficiency and effectiveness, OutlookSoft has...
- Tags: Business Performance Management, OutlookSoft, Trambus, Transportation, Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Sector Group
- Established in Italy in 1973, Sector became a prominent name in the 1980s and is now a leader in the Italian sport watch-making industry. Sector Group's decision to implement a Business Performance Management BPM solution was made in order to address the budgeting and reporting challenges of a new business...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Sector Group, Financial Services
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- 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
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- 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, Sales
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- In the Swing With American Golf Corp.
- American Golf Corporation AGC, the largest operator of golf courses in the us, had experienced tremendous growth since teeing off to the golfing public in 1973. AGC desperately needed "output" capabilities for operations and executive management that didn't put a drain on finance and it resources. To remedy these issues,...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Performance Management, Sales Force Management, Financial Services, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Sales
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Ballast Nedam
- Ballast Nedam's activities extend to all areas of general contracting: Civil and hydraulic engineering, industrial building, non-residential building, and road building. Driving Ballast Nedam's decision to purchase and implement a corporate performance management CPM solution was the company's need to manage, plan and forecast effectively across its thousands of active...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Corporate Performance Management, Ballast Nedam, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
- Beckman Coulter, Inc is a leading provider of instrument systems and complementary products that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Realizing that they could not continue to rely exclusively on Excel spreadsheets for their growing financial planning and analysis requirements, Beckman Coulter began a search for a comprehensive application that led...
- Tags: Beckman Coulter Inc., Financial, OutlookSoft, Financial Accounting, Finance
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Brady Corporation
- Brady Corp. ran 20 ERP systems across its global operations - making it time-consuming and labor-intensive to produce consolidated financial statements. Now, a solution based on the OutlookSoft Everest, supported by a robust Microsoft SQL Server 2000 back-end, automates the reporting process and enables executives to access the financial information...
- Tags: Brady Corp., Financial, OutlookSoft, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Databases, Finance, Software, Data Management
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- OutlookSoft Case Study: Cingular Wireless
- When BellSouth and SBC merged to become Cingular Wireless, each company brought its own method of gathering and accessing financial and customer data. Each company used custom in-house systems for generating financial and performance reports. BellSouth used Microsoft Excel to store data in a Microsoft Access database, whereas SBC used...
- Tags: Cingular Wireless, OutlookSoft, Microsoft Excel, Performance Management, Business Process Automation, Microsoft Office, Operational Planning, Financial Accounting, Office Suites, Software, Human Resources, Workforce Management, It Operations, Business Operations, Finance
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- OutlookSoft Customer Win: Fitness First
- Fitness First, the world's largest international health club operator, has selected the OutlookSoft Corporate Performance Management CPM solution to manage its group-wide financial and operation consolidation, reporting, and analysis. Fitness First selected the OutlookSoft CPM solution to meet its business requirements. OutlookSoft is the leading provider of unified corporate performance...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Corporate Performance Management, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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- GUS plc Chooses OutlookSoft
- OutlookSoft Corporation announced that GUS plc has selected OutlookSoft software for Group financial reporting and analysis across all of its major business divisions, which include Argos Retail Group, Experian, Burberry, and Lewis Group. GUS will unify its top-level financial and non-financial information in one system using OutlookSoft's Everest business performance...
- Tags: OutlookSoft, Everest, Business Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
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