Intacct, a cloud-based ERP vendor focused on midsize companies, recently held its annual user group meeting. Two of its products that were covered in the keynote are worth noting. One, already available, enables companies to manage their order-to-cash process in a continuous fashion, from the time a salesperson begins to engage with a prospect to the time funds are collected. The other is a custom report writer, to be available in the first quarter of 2017, that will provide business users with...
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Topics:
SaaS,
Sales,
Customer Engagement,
Customer Experience,
ERP,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
NetSuite,
Office of Finance,
customer life cycle,
Customer Service,
billing software
New standards governing accounting for contracts will go into effect for most companies in 2018. The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), which administers Generally Accepted Accounting Principles in the U.S. (US-GAAP), has issued ASC 606, and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), which administers International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) used in most other countries, has issued IFRS 15. The two are very similar, and both will enforce fundamental changes in this...
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Topics:
Sales,
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Aria Systems provides companies with software for managing subscription or recurring revenue business models. A recurring revenue business models includes three types of selling and billing structures: a one-time transaction plus a periodic service charge; subscription-based services involving periodic charges; or a contractual relationship that charges periodically for goods and services. Aria’s cloud-based software addresses key requirements of users in the marketing, sales, operations and...
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SaaS,
Sales,
Customer Engagement,
Customer Experience,
ERP,
Marketing,
NetSuite,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Recurring Revenue,
customer life cycle,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Customer Service,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
billing software
Supply and demand chain planning and execution have grown in importance over the past decade as companies have recognized that software can meaningfully enhance their competitiveness and improve their financial performance. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) is an integrated business management process first developed in the 1980s aimed at achieving better alignment and synchronization between the supply chain, production and sales functions. A properly implemented S&OP process routinely...
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Topics:
Planning,
SaaS,
Sales,
Forecast,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Human Capital,
Supply Chain Planning,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Sales Planning,
Supply Chain,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Demand Chain,
Integrated Business Planning,
SCM Demand Planning,
S&OP
Managing prices has always been an activity of keen interest to businesses, but it has become even more critical to do it well. Over the past decade many companies have found their ability to raise prices has been constrained by intense competition resulting from Internet commerce, global competition and other factors. One tool for dealing with this pressure is price and revenue optimization (PRO), an analytic methodology that calculates how demand varies at different price levels and then uses...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Performance Management,
Predictive Analytics,
Sales,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
analytical application,
Price Optimization
Ventana Research recently released the results of our Next-Generation Business Planning benchmark research. Business planning encompasses all of the forward-looking activities in which companies routinely engage. The research examined 11 of the most common types of enterprise planning: capital, demand, marketing, project, sales and operations, strategic, supply chain and workforce planning, as well as sales forecasting and corporate and IT budgeting. We also aggregated the results to draw...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Planning,
Predictive Analytics,
Sales,
Social Media,
Human Capital Management,
Marketing,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Reporting,
Budgeting,
Controller,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
In-memory,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
capital spending,
demand management,
Financial Performance Management,
financial reporting,
FPM,
Integrated Business Planning,
S&OP
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Mobile,
SaaS,
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
ERP,
HCM,
Human Capital,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Dynamics AX,
Dynamics GP,
Dynamics NAV Dynamics SL,
Kenandy,
PSA,
Sage Software,
Unit4,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FinancialForce,
HR,
Infor,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
HANA,
Plex,
Professional Services Automation
Like most vendors of on-premises ERP and financial management software, in moving to the cloud Oracle has focused on developing for existing and potential customers the option of multitenant software as a service (SaaS). (I’m using the term “ERP” in its most expansive sense, to include such systems employed by all types of companies for accounting and financial management rather than only systems that are used by manufacturing and distribution companies.) Oracle’s ERP Cloud Service includes ...
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Mobile,
SaaS,
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
ERP,
HCM,
Human Capital,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Dynamics AX,
Dynamics GP,
Dynamics NAV Dynamics SL,
Kenandy,
PSA,
Sage Software,
Unit4,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FinancialForce,
HR,
Infor,
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
HANA,
Plex,
Professional Services Automation
FinancialForce’s 2014 summer release incorporates improvements in mobile and collaboration features and provides enhancements to the planning dimension of its professional services automation (PSA) suite. In the last couple of releases the company emphasized expansion in the functional capabilities of its ERP suite, as I noted, focusing on human capital management and professional services automation as well as some supply chain automation capabilities.
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SaaS,
Sales,
Salesforce.com,
Social Media,
ERP,
HCM,
Human Capital,
Office of Finance,
Consulting,
distribution,
PSA,
Unit4,
Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FinancialForce,
HR,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Professional Services Automation,
SCM
Like other vendors of cloud-based ERP software, NetSuite offers the key benefits of software as a service (SaaS): a smaller upfront investment, faster time to value and potentially lower operating costs. Beyond that NetSuite’s essential point of competitive differentiation from is broad functionality beyond financial management, including capabilities for customer relationship management (CRM), professional services automation (PSA) and human capital management (HCM). These components make it...
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Topics:
Microsoft,
Mobile,
SaaS,
Sales,
Customer Experience,
ERP,
HCM,
Human Capital,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
communications,
Dynamics AX,
Dynamics GP,
Dynamics NAV Dynamics SL,
PSA,
Sage Software,
UI,
Unit4,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CFO,
CRM,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
FinancialForce,
HR,
Infor,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Social,
Financial Performance Management,
FPM,
Plex,
Professional Services Automation,
Workday Collaboration