Why, as CEO, I Love Driver-Based Planning
While driver-based planning is a bit of an old buzzword (the first two Google hits date to 2009 and 2011 respectively), I am nevertheless a huge fan of driver-based planning not because the concept was...
View ArticleSAP Rumored to Launch Hana-Based Cloud Planning Solution Next Week
Well, it’s pretty clear that SAP will be announcing something in Chicago on Monday, judging by the above re-tweet from SAP head of EPM product management David Williams, and by the content in the SAP...
View ArticleCFOs: More Strategic Than Ever
I was digging through my reading pile and found this about nine-month-old report by Accenture and Oracle entitled The CFO as Corporate Strategist by Donniel Schulman and David Axson of Accenture....
View ArticleImproving Corporate Planning through Insight Generation
I want to take a quick breather from writing about corporate innovation and return to another topic of this blog: big data and insight as a service. Host Analytics, one of my portfolio companies,...
View ArticleVendor Event: Why Does Everyone Need Analytics?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:00 am Pacific 1:00 pm Eastern Presenters Ray Wang Principal Analyst and Chief Executive Officer Constellation Research, Inc. Patrick Morrissey Vice President Tidemark...
View ArticleAccenture’s Key Considerations in SaaS Financial Applications
The first stop in the Host Analytics cloud EPM roadshow was held today before a packed house at the lovely Four Seasons Hotel in Palo Alto. The event featured a keynote address from Accenture Managing...
View ArticleKellblog’s 10 Predictions for 2014
Since it is the season of predictions, I thought I’d offer up a few of my own for 2014, based on my nearly three decades of experience working in enterprise software with databases, BI tools, and...
View ArticleDid You Just Make a Plan or a Budget?
Congratulations! If your company is like most, you’ve recently finished a (hopefully) solid 2013 and, from an EPM perspective, completed your 2014 annual planning process. Before we get too excited,...
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