Cartesis, the world’s leading specialist in finance and performance management software, today announced that Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. was recognized by Ventana Research for its use of Cartesis for global financial consolidation, management reporting and budgeting and forecasting processes.
Nissan uses Cartesis to consolidate full profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statements for 234 companies. This has enabled Nissan to reduce its book closing time from 33 days to 10. Over 550 users at Nissan can now produce monthly profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements with detailed analysis and comparisons within 10 minutes.
Adaptive Planning 3.0 – Performance Management That Empowers Mid-Market Business Users
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–June 26, 2006–Adaptive Planning, the leading provider of collaborative performance management applications, today announced Adaptive Planning(TM) 3.0, the latest version of its flagship solution that empowers business users throughout a company with the financial and operational information they need to make better business decisions. Offering numerous features and enhancements that improve performance and ease-of-use, along with new options that make it especially well-suited for midsized companies, Adaptive Planning 3.0 delivers on the promise of providing “Insight for All” within today’s companies.
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Clarity Systems launches Clarity 6, the next generation corporate performance management solution
Major product advancements include a new Business Process Manager and web-based administration tools for data, reporting and user management
Clarity Systems, a leader in corporate performance management (CPM) solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of the latest version of its award-winning software, Clarity 6. Clarity 6 incorporates new and updated features that include enhanced reporting and workflow capabilities, improved security services, a sophisticated template builder and an advanced metadata management tool. Clarity 6 is being launched to the market today and is available for new and existing customers.
“With the launch of Clarity 6, we are setting the standard for CPM solutions. Clarity 6 stands out from the competition by providing budgeting, planning, reporting, modeling, consolidations, and forecasting in a single unified web-based application,†said Mark Nashman, President and CTO, Clarity Systems. “Significantly, Clarity 6 is the only performance management solution that is capable of operating with both Essbase and Microsoft Analysis Services OLAP databases, as well as the most common relational databases, simultaneously. When you add these factors together, Clarity 6 is the leading CPM product.†[Read more…]
Microsoft to expand BI plan
Microsoft this week plans to unveil an updated business intelligence strategy that includes its first business process management (BPM) offerings.
The BPM family will feature new dashboard tools and analytic applications for budgeting, planning and other financial tasks, analysts said.
Microsoft will also announce plans for shipping the visualization tools gained with its acquisition of ProClarity in April, analysts said.
Canon rolls out Cognos BI suite
Canon Middle East is rolling out Cognos’ latest business intelligence (BI) solution to more effectively monitor the company’s process and performance efficiencies.
The electronics vendor is currently undertaking a pilot implementation of the Cognos 8 Business Intelligence suite for 25 users that will then be expanded to hundreds of users as the system grows over the course of the year.