A3 Solutions Presents Enterprise Planning Solutions Seminar; McDonald's Canada Finance Manager To Speak.SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999-- A3 Solutions Incorporated (A-cubed) today announced its inaugural A3 Solutions Seminar, "Enterprise Planning Solutions for the Global 2000," taking place on Tuesday, November 16 at the Royal Room of the Metropolitan Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Bruce Gooding, Senior Manager, Finance, McDonald's Restaurants There are more than 30,000 McDonald's restaurants in 119 countries. Restaurants The first McDonald's was not a restaurant at all, but it was a sit-in stand. The company's early franchises were built to a standard pattern that did not offer seating; this was in part to prevent of Canada, (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MCD MCD Minor Civil Division MCD McDonalds (restaurant) Mcd Macedonian (linguistics) MCD Municipal Corporation of Delhi MCD Magnetic Circular Dichroism MCD Mad Cow Disease ) will discuss "Enterprise Planning: Integrating Sales Forecasting, Financial Planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against , and Capital Planning." He will talk about how McDonald's automated and centralized its Annual Budget process. Rapidly deployed, the new system now empowers managers and analysts throughout McDonald's Canadian operation to consolidate and plan with the critical information they require. A3 Solutions helped the company make the transition from Spreadsheet Hell to Spreadsheet Paradise. "McDonald's Canada needed to replace a legacy budget database that was not Y2K compliant," said Gooding. "The old database was fed by hundreds of spreadsheets. Applying a solution developed with A3 Profit Center, we were able to work online, eliminating all the spreadsheets and associated downloading. This not only improved the quality of our process, but cut about two weeks off our cycle time." "We're tremendously excited about the opportunity to present this seminar, our first outside the U.S., with McDonald's Canada," said John McAughtry, Vice President of Worldwide Sales, A3 Solutions. "More and more, we see the A3 mission as one of delivering enterprise planning solutions to Global 2000 organizations." This complimentary business seminar is not a technical briefing, but a session for executives and managers in Finance, Manufacturing, Marketing, Operations, and Sales organizations who want to learn how to use existing data to make better, faster business decisions. Steve Emmer, Regional Sales Director, A3 Solutions, will discuss "Using Enterprise Profit Planning to Escape Spreadsheet Hell." Topics in the continuing A3 Solutions Seminar Series include integrating planning across multiple organizations; speeding the planning cycle; and incorporating the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. system with a web-based planning solution. The seminar is open for registration: 877/889-CUBE toll free or visit www.a3si.com. About McDonald's Canada McDonald's Restaurants of Canada Limited is the dominant player in the Canadian Quick Service Restaurant industry with over 1,100 restaurant locations from coast to coast. About A3 Solutions Incorporated A3 Solutions, headquartered in San Francisco, develops and markets A3 Profit Center, the Web-Ready Enterprise Modeling Software Suite that deploys Advanced Analytic Applications (A3) for Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP (1) (Enhanced Parallel Port) See IEEE 1284. (2) (Ethernet Packet Processor) A chip from Kalpana, Inc., Santa Clara, CA that doubles speed of Ethernet transmission to 20Mbits/sec. In 1994, Kalpana was acquired by Cisco. ). Corporations use A3 Profit Center to speed planning, increase collaboration, and make more informed decisions regarding enterprise profitability. EPP solutions configured with A3 Profit Center unify all Profitability Analysis, Allocations, Budgeting, Costing, Forecasting, Planning, and Management Reporting functionality under a common end-user application umbrella. Enterprise Profit Planning (EPP): A3 Profit Center empowers Global 2000 companies to leverage state-of-the-art Online Analytical Processing Online Analytical Processing, or OLAP (IPA: /ˈoʊlæp/), is an approach to quickly provide answers to analytical queries that are multidimensional in nature. (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) technology, Excel, and web technology to integrate mission-critical analytic models, remove their limitations, enhance their functionality, and elevate them to dynamic, realtime, collaborative, Internet-enabled Enterprise Models. Leveraging the domain expertise from generalized versions of real-world implementations, A3 Profit Center deploys Advanced Analytic Applications that exceed the flexibility and functionality of single-purpose, pre-packaged or time consuming, custom-developed offerings. Success Stories: A3 Profit Center customers include Abbott Laboratories, American Airlines, Avon Products, Bear Stearns & Co., The Clorox Company, Consolidated Edison, Cox Communications, Del Monte Foods Del Monte Foods (NYSE: DLM) is an American food production and distribution company based in San Francisco, California. It offers canned goods in Del Monte, S&W and Contadina brands, pet foods under Kibbles n' Bits, 9Lives, Pounce, Milk-Bone and several premium brands, , Deloitte & Touche, Fidelity Federal Bank, Staples, Sun Life of Canada (U.S.), T. Rowe Price T. Rowe Price (NASDAQ: TROW) is an independent global investment management firm and mutual fund manager based in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.. T. , and Toyota Motors. Partners: Co-marketed with partner firms, including Hyperion Solutions Corporation (Nasdaq:HYSL), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) (NYSE:IBM), and ShowCase Corporation (Nasdaq:SHWC SHWC St. Helena Wine Center (California) SHWC Student Health and Wellness Center SHWC Senior Health and Wellness Center SHWC Solar Hot Water Centers SHWC supervised home work classes SHWC Stigler Health and Wellness Center ). In addition, A3 Solutions partners with system integrators, consulting partners, and resellers worldwide. A3 Solutions is dedicated to helping Global 2000 companies integrate, automate, and centralize mission-critical Enterprise Planning Applications. |
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