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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...
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SAP 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...
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CFOs: 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,...
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Thoughts on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management...
“Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest EPM vendor of them all?” It’s that time of the year again. Gartner just released their Magic Quadrant for Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Suites...
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Why Modeling Cloud Matters in EPM and Operational Planning
Two weeks ago, Host Analytics launched an amazing new product called Modeling Cloud. Built by an elite team of some our most experienced developers, Modeling Cloud represents a breakthrough in cloud...
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SAP Cloud for Analytics: Tilting at Windmills
Back in the early 2000s when I was running marketing at Business Objects, Gartner’s then-lead BI analyst, Howard Dresner (known as the father of BI and the person who named the category) started...
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Host Analytics World 2016 EPM Keynote Address
We’re just finishing up day 2 of a fantastic Host Analytics World 2016, with over 800 people gathered together in San Francisco to talk about enterprise performance management (EPM). Here are a few...
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Myths of the Headless Company
In the past year or so, two of our competitors have abruptly transitioned their CEOs and both have perpetuated a lot of mythology about what happens and/or will happen in such transitions. As someone...
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The New Split CPM Magic Quadrants from Gartner
This week Gartner research vice president John Van Decker and research director Chris Iervolino took the bold move of splitting the corporate performance management (CPM), also known as enterprise...
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EPM: Now More Than Ever
The theme of my presentation at past spring’s Host Analytics World was that EPM is needed in fair, foul, or uncertain weather. While EPM is used differently in fair and foul weather scenarios, it is a...
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Kellblog’s 2017 Predictions
New Year’s means three things in my world: (1) time to thank our customers and team at Host Analytics for another great year, (2) time to finish up all the 2017 planning items and approvals that we...
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Quick Thoughts on Tagetik Acquistion by Wolters Kluwer
Yesterday, the tax and accounting division of Dutch publishing giant Wolters Kluwer announced the acquistion of Italian enterprise performance management (EPM) vendor Tagetik for 300M Euros, or about...
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Why has Standalone Cloud BI Been Such a Tough Slog?
I remember when I left Business Objects back in 2004 that it was early days in the cloud. We were using Salesforce internally (and one of their larger customers at the time) so I was familiar with and...
View ArticleThe New 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrants for Cloud Strategic CPM (SCPM) and Cloud...
For some odd reason, I always think of this scene — The New Phone Book’s Here – from an old Steve Martin comedy whenever Gartner rolls out their new Magic Quadrants (MQ) for corporate performance...
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Is IBM Getting Out of Enterprise Performance Management?
I noticed that IBM sold off several EPM products — IBM Cognos Disclosure Management (CDM), IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR), and IBM Clarity 7 products — to a company called Certent....
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Kellblog Predictions for 2018
In continuing my tradition of offering predictions every year, let’s start with a review of my hits and misses on my 2017 predictions. The United States will see a level of divisiveness and social...
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EPM, Project Orion, and the Beginner’s Mind
I’ll always be thankful for my time at Salesforce both because I met so many amazing people and because I learned so much. I learned about the importance of Trust in a SaaS company (and was drilled in...
View ArticleMy Appearance on DisrupTV Episode 100
Last week I sat down with interviewers Doug Henschen, Vala Afshar, and a bit of Ray Wang (live from a 777 taxiing en route to Tokyo) to participate in Episode 100 of DisrupTV along with fellow guests...
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The New Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrants for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis...
If all you’re looking for is the free download link, let’s cut to the chase: here’s where you can download the new 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning and Analysis Solutions and the new...
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