arcplan, a leading vendor of process-centric business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that Ahold, the Netherlands-based retail and food service giant, selected its flagship BI solution, arcplan Enterprise, to gather financial reporting information from Ahold’s operating units and create consolidated reports for the Executive Board. The deal was clinched by arcplan’s Dutch partner Partake Consulting, which undertook the integration and implementation work. The initial phase was completed and operational within little more than eight weeks due to arcplan’s ability to integrate seamlessly with Ahold’s existing systems.
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Extensity, the financial performance management company that helps finance leaders leverage the power of trusted and finance-centric data, has signed a contract with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for MPC financial performance management software. Dana-Farber will employ MPC to automate and provide greater control of the operational, capital, and research budgeting processes.

Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber has been committed to providing expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. When the Institute decided to automate and streamline its spreadsheet-based budgeting process, it chose Extensity MPC over products from Cognos and Business Objects. [Read more…]

The City of Hamilton is very pleased with its decision to purchase Questica’s TeamBudget Capital solution. The solution will provide centralized project based budgeting with the ability to easily track actual costs against the proposed budget. Along with customizable alerts, users will be better capable of managing the capital budgeting process.

The industry developed solution provides real-time budgeting and improved reporting, in a secure web based environment. TeamBudget Capital allows the City of Hamilton’s staff the ability to submit, review, approve and maintain all of their capital budgets. The ‘What If’ analysis allows departments to explore budgeting options before submission for financial approval with minimal clerical error. The solution is expected to dramatically improve the efficiency of the entire capital budgeting process. [Read more…]