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Canada’s Inter Pipeline Fund Pumps Up Budgeting and Reporting With Hyperion Software

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Rapidly-Growing Energy Firm Saves $100,000 in Administrative Costs and Reduces Budget Creation Time by 152 Man-Hour Days.

HyperionHyperion (Nasdaq Global Select: HYSL), the global leader in Business Performance Management (BPM) software, today announced that Canadian energy leader Inter Pipeline Fund (Inter Pipeline) has successfully leveraged Hyperion BPM solutions to trim more than $100,000 in administrative costs while reducing the number of hours it takes to prepare budgets by 76 percent.

A global petroleum transportation, storage and natural gas liquids extraction business based in Calgary, Alberta, Inter Pipeline achieved the efficiencies by automating a manual, spreadsheet-based budgeting and reporting infrastructure, even as it saw its revenues grow by more than 1,000 percent in the past five years. In June, Inter Pipeline ranked 62nd on Profit Magazine’s PROFIT 100 list of the fastest growing companies in Canada. [Read more…]

W.C. Bradley to Convert Corporate ERP Functions to Microsoft Dynamics GP

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Microsoft DynamicsEnterprise Company Expects to Save Millions of Dollars and Significantly Improve Business Insight and Efficiency With Migration From Oracle to the Microsoft Dynamics Platform.

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT – News) today announced that W.C. Bradley Co. has selected Microsoft Dynamics(TM) GP to handle its corporate enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions, including aggregation of data from multiple divisions of the company. Founded in 1895, and based in Columbus, Ga., W.C. Bradley will also leverage the solution to power independent operations for several of its key brands — including Char-Broil, Zebco, Lamplight and WC Bradley Real Estate — for functions ranging from anticipating demand to manufacturing and distribution, a change the company expects will save it millions of dollars over the next five years compared with results from its current Oracle solution.

“Oracle simply couldn’t handle our business needs or take us where we needed to go,” said Jim Poole, vice president and chief information officer of W.C. Bradley. “Just because a company’s business model is complex doesn’t mean that its ERP solution has to be. We expect Microsoft Dynamics GP to provide a whole new layer of capabilities while also being easier to use and far less expensive to operate. The choice seemed pretty clear.” [Read more…]

SAS software to help keep CN Railway’s revenue forecasting on track

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SASSAS announced that Canadian National Railway Company (CN) has licensed SAS’ forecasting and budgeting software to accurately predict demand, determine infrastructure requirements to achieve revenue goals, and deliver critical business decision support information to multiple levels across the enterprise.

Tapping the industrial-strength capabilities of SAS forecasting and budgeting software, CN will employ SAS to create and deploy forecasts that will support strategic planning and daily operational decision-making processes. [Read more…]

Integrated Sage Business Management Suite Helps PeopleCube Manage Aggressive Growth Strategy

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Sage Software announced today that PeopleCube, the leader in on-demand Human Process Management solutions, is using an integrated SageCRM (customer relationship management)/Sage Accpac ERP (enterprise resource planning)/Sage Accpac Insight system to provide sales forecasting and customer account visibility for its employees located throughout the U.S. and Europe. PeopleCube has achieved significant time and resource reduction in sales forecast and account status reporting since implementing their integrated Sage Software system this past July.”Using our integrated Sage Software business management system, we can gather information for our monthly sales forecasts in a few minutes as opposed to the previous eight or more hours,” said Rick Boyink, PeopleCube vice president for North American sales. “From there, running a variety of reports is similarly just a matter of minutes. The automation our Sage system provides has replaced the manual number crunching that was necessary with our former system.” [Read more…]

Antwerp Port Authority Selects IBM Asset Management Software

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MRO Software, an IBM company (NYSE: IBM), today announced that the Antwerp Port Authority has chosen IBM’s Maximo asset management software to manage its operating assets in the port of Antwerp. The contract was awarded after an extensive tender procedure.The Maximo solution is part of the portfolio of solutions from MRO Software, which IBM acquired in October 2006, and is now part of IBM’s Tivoli software unit.

Maximo will support the organization in the overall maintenance and technical management of all operating assets, including tugs and dredgers, cranes, buildings, bridges, locks, docks, roads and the electricity distribution network. More than 750 employees will eventually have access to the solution, which will support all maintenance management processes. The solution covers work order and data management, planning, budgeting, reporting, performance tracking, internal and external outsourcing, purchasing, and stock management. Some adjacent processes will also be handled by Maximo, such as the monitoring of construction and renovation projects, and recording of certain operating data and all purchase orders. [Read more…]