Budgeting/planning.Adaptive Planning Inc. has brought out what it calls an alternative to spreadsheet-based budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting: a new hosted solution. Targeted at the mid-market, Adaptive Planning "combines a flexible, easy-to-use, spreadsheet-style interface with a hosted, easy-to-deploy application framework that is affordable, quick to implement and offers a low total cost of ownership," the Mountain View, Calif., company said in an announcement. Adaptive Planning claims to be the first provider of a hosted application that includes the powerful budgeting, planning, forecasting and reporting capabilities companies want, without additional IT requirements or lengthy implementation projects. "As a former CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , I am all too familiar with the limitations of spreadsheets--the fact that they are error-prone, time-consuming to manage and consolidate and don't easily adapt to a company's changing business needs," said Robert S Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. . Hull, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Adaptive Planning. He calls the new product "a powerful, affordable, easy-to-use and easy-to-implement solution that allows financial executives to spend more time understanding their business and less time manipulating spreadsheets The following is a list of spreadsheets. Freeware/open source software Online spreadsheets
Adaptive Planning has a spreadsheet-like interface that is easy to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. , with formula-based capabilities that allow for powerful yet simple model building. This modeling capability exists within a series of core financial model elements, including sales plans, personnel, expenses, capital, balance sheet, profit and loss, and other non-financial metrics metrics Managed care A popular term for standards by which the quality of a product, service, or outcome of a particular form of Pt management is evaluated. See TQM. . As a result, companies can quickly develop a complex budget or forecast model and can easily modify their model to adjust to changes in their business, such as the addition of a new product line, a new department or a new office. Hull said in an interview that the product is being priced at $65 per seat per month through a series of one-year agreements. "The finance department is buying the product, but we see the users as anyone with a cost center or a departmental manager with budget authority who will be doing re-forecasting and variance The discrepancy between what a party to a lawsuit alleges will be proved in pleadings and what the party actually proves at trial. In Zoning law, an official permit to use property in a manner that departs from the way in which other property in the same locality reporting against what's actually happening," he said. Web: www.adaptiveplanning.com |
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