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3 Tips to Help Leaders Take Care of Their People
We’re all looking forward to a brighter 2021, but we still have a few months to go before we’re there. For many, the combination of work, social, family, and political stressors can make these days feel heavy. For most leaders, a big question on our minds is “how on earth do we keep this ship […]
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Analyst Perspectives on Planful
We’re always excited when Planful is recognized by leading analysts for the hard work we put into our solutions and the value our customers receive. But what should these reports mean to you? I’m going to pull back the curtain a bit and highlight the differences in how all of the various analyst firms view […]
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Summer20 Speeds Continuous Planning for Every Corner of the Business
We believe that FP&A is the strategic core of every modern business. When they work faster and more efficiently, they have more time to raise the financial IQ in every corner of the business. Helping FP&A connect and collaborate with the business is one of the many powerful and transformational benefits of Continuous Planning. Now, […]
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Here’s How the Finance Department Can Help Marketing Make More Money for the Business
As a marketing leader, you’re expected to have a really good sense of your own department. Luckily, there’s more technology than ever to track your team’s performance, your insights, and your data. But marketing leaders shouldn’t take a myopic, marketing-only view of that data. Instead, it’s increasingly important to build a better relationship with Finance […]
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Six Ways That Planful Uses Company Values to Guide Strategic Growth
I started at Planful just over a year ago as SVP of People & Culture (that’s “human resources” rebranding ourselves). Our culture was going through an evolution, with new leadership, a new vision, and new energy being injected into the company. We made it clear we would take a people-first approach, and that our values […]
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How the Pandemic has Changed Everything—and Nothing—for the Office of Finance
If you would have asked me six months ago what the biggest challenge facing finance is, the answer would have been easy: disruption. Market volatility, changing regulations, evolving business models, emerging competitors — you name it, finance has to deal with it. Then along came COVID-19, and to say it took the meaning of disruption […]
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How the Pandemic Changed the Cash Flow Playbook
Planful is full of FP&A professionals, from our product and sales teams to our services and implementation teams, and, of course, our finance team. Planful was built this way so we’re always talking to our customers in the language of finance. We’ve been in your same roles, and many of us know, first hand, the […]
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From Ambush to Recovery: How Businesses Can Respond to Today’s Crisis
“The new normal,” “unprecedented uncertainty,” “the great unknown”: there is no shortage of terms to describe today’s business conditions — none of them particularly positive. If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that nobody (except the Simpsons) can predict what will happen next. The foggy future ahead begs the question: How quickly can businesses recover […]
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Announcing Planful Certifications: Elevate Your Planful Skills Without Leaving Home
When you’re forced into a new situation, it sometimes turns out to be an opportunity for discovery and evolution. The COVID-19 pandemic created just such an unavoidable situation for, well, pretty much everyone and everything. These last few months gave us a moment to reimagine how Planful Academy can become something bigger and better for […]
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Dorel Sports Shifts into High Gear with Planful
Finance teams find themselves buried in Excel tabs with myriad formulas and various versions. For many organizations, planning, budgeting and forecasting involve countless numbers of spreadsheets. It may work for a small company, but for a large international organization like Dorel Sports, spreadsheets won’t suffice.
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Why You Need to Future-Proof Your Data and Analytics
Are you future-proofing your company’s data and analytics capabilities? If not, you may soon be at a competitive disadvantage. Because data and analytics are playing an ever-more critical role in business and finance -- a trend that is poised to accelerate rapidly over the next few years.
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Golden State Foods Manages Global Growth & Financial Consolidation
When Brad Tingey joined Golden State Foods (GSF) in 2013, the company had just completed three acquisitions, including two international deals. Consolidating results would be his first and biggest challenge as the new corporate controller at GSF, a multinational food service provider serving 125,000 restaurants in 60 countries.
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How Augusta Sportswear Teamed Up With Planful for Better Business Insights
Celebrating its 40th year in business, Augusta Sportswear today sells more than 800 styles of active wear for teams, coaches, and athletes of all ages.
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Gartner Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Magic Quadrants 2017 – A New World Order Emerges
In my 20+ years of working in the corporate performance management (CPM) market (a.k.a. EPM) I’ve witnessed a lot of change. But with the shift to the cloud, a new world order has emerged.
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From the Field to the Bleachers, Red Sox Turn to Planful
Few U.S. professional sports teams are so well-known that they fill stadiums wherever they go. The Boston Red Sox are that kind of team.
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Planful Cloud EPM Customers Are Everywhere
You can’t avoid them. Everywhere you go, everything you do. They are there, looming large on the consumer and B2B landscape.
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The Wisdom of Crowds Meets Enterprise Planning
Summer 2016 is in full swing and things are looking sunny for Planful. Sorry, excuse the perpetual sunny disposition of a communications professional. But seriously, the company has performed extremely well in recent industry analyst reports from influential firms such as Nucleus Research
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What’s New in Cyber Security?
One of the hottest topics in Finance in 2015 is data security. In fact, in a recent survey by Protiviti and FERF, cyber security ranked as one of the top 5 priorities for Finance executives, along with margins/earnings performance, strategic planning, periodic forecasting, and budgeting.