People. Product. Process. Nonprofit leaders know that you need all three in place to really drive success on a worthwhile initiative. Yet when it comes to nonprofits’ finance departments, many teams are saddled with out-of-date and cumbersome processes. FP&A professionals at nonprofit organizations are tasked with juggling multiple funding sources… [READ MORE]
Photo: The engineering team behind Elastic Hypercube Technology. Today, we’re proud to launch our patent-pending Elastic Hypercube Technology. For customers, this breakthrough represents an entirely new level-set in their business planning. For the team that made it possible, it was a labor of love, passion, and many sleepless nights. There’s… [READ MORE]
Every software-as-a-service (SaaS) company starts with a cloud service and a target market. If you’re successful, you eventually look to take your offering to new customers, new verticals, new geographies. Scaling your SaaS offering has obvious implications for your business. But as head of my company’s engineering team, I focus… [READ MORE]
Lately, I’ve been thinking how sailing relates to sales planning. New technology has made sailing safer with advancements such as tracking transmitters that send your location when trouble strikes and iPhone apps that better predict changing wind conditions. With sales planning, modern cloud solutions are helping sales ops better manage… [READ MORE]
There’s a lot of talk these days about how to drive deeper engagement between finance and business teams. One way to do so is with financial dashboards. Visual analytics open the door for a more collaborative environment in which easy-to-interpret data is more readily shared and can be accessed by… [READ MORE]
Many finance teams consider board reports the most challenging type of report that they put together. And, in many ways, it’s because board members want so much more than numbers, such as nonfinancial information and customized analysis. Standard slide templates and data charts may satisfy most board members. But to… [READ MORE]
Finding the right FP&A solution is only half the battle. You also need people to use it. Adoption is critical to success, not only to reap the full efficiencies of self-service dashboards as well as swift analytics and reporting capabilities, but also to build growing awareness of the strategic value… [READ MORE]
I couldn’t be more excited about becoming part of the Workday family. The alliance will enable us to innovate even faster than before, while our customers continue to receive the same world-class service and support from the team they know and trust. With change, of course, there are always questions.… [READ MORE]
Recently in the Adaptive Blog, I recapped an interview with Mark Chamberlain, vice president of sales operations at Ivanti, a software company that unifies IT and security operations to better manage and secure the digital workplace. Mark described how his fast-growing organization, which employs 2,000 people in 36 offices across… [READ MORE]
Time-consuming. Error-prone. Impossible to scale. Imagine those words anchoring an ad for a planning platform. Would you use it? No, thanks. And yet, those are the complaints of many still using Excel-based planning processes in spreadsheets today. But if you’re growing rapidly and trying to build an organization that can… [READ MORE]
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