Akili discusses the new digital frontier of Mobility. The number and type of IP connected devices is dramatically changing. Mobility is driving the “consumerization” of IT. And, there is an increasing demand for enterprise applications. Find out the effect these factors are having on the technology marketplace.
Learn about today’s mobile computing trends and challenges — and more importantly, how SAP’s mobile solutions and strategies can help make your employees, customers, and partners more efficient.
An SAP Solution Brief for BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management Solutions
Enterprise performance management (EPM) applications for finance, which are part of the SAP® BusinessObjects™ EPM solutions, cover the full lifecycle of financial management and put you in control of performance. The applications integrate enterprise data and processes to streamline traditional finance processes. You can gain strategic insight for calculated decision making and reliable legal and management reporting, and you can align your business processes more precisely with strategic goals.
Download the solution brief: http://www.akili.com/Learn/White_Papers/Optimize_Enterprise_Performance.aspx
Why Try to Forecast the Future? So Your Business Can Prepare in Advance, Anticipating What’s Ahead and Reacting Accordingly.
Read the newest thought leadership whitepaper from Akili Inc. An excert follows – “Interestingly a lot of companies still use business forecasting approaches that:
- Rely solely on historical performance to predict future results
- Are not refreshed on a regular basis
In other words they are not really forecasting in the true sense of the word.
In this paper we are going to review the underlying problems associated with static forecasting based on lagging indicators and then discuss an alternative approach using leading indicators and continuous forecasting.”
Read the SAP Customer success story from 3i Solutions Inc.
CityTec is a Dutch company whose 320 strong work force is responsible for maintenance of 600,000 light poles, 30,000 traffic lights, and 2,000 parking facilities in the Netherlands. With increasingly sophisticated customers, CityTec undertook a mobilization effort for its field worker force to enable them to respond faster and more accurately to outages and other field faults. CityTec’s evaluation and subsequent deployment of the Avelon Field Service solution (powered by 3i’s Mobile Workplace) yielded a return approximately 3 times greater then other solutions evaluated…
Optimizing and Effectively Integrating your Financial Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting with Strategic Planning “Series”
Feb & March Thought Leader: Alan Boyer, Akili Inc. Vice President of Delivery
Feb 23, 2012 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PT | SoCal IP Law Group Westlake Village, CA
Today’s economy and market place are more dynamic than most of us have ever experienced. As a result, many successful companies have explored new and dynamic ways to integrate their planning, budgeting, allocation of resources that is consistent with their strategic approach. It seems as though CFOs today are continually struggling with balancing costs, optimizing operations and prioritizing R&D projects with capitalizing on opportunities and controlling overall risks. This is definitely not an easy analysis to do in any time period, but there are a number of tools that have been developed to support new methodologies in this area to make these business activities more efficient and effective. These sessions are designed to help the participants achieve real success by defining and implementing specific processes that enable the highest level of performance. TechAmerica, understands the issues we are all facing in this dynamic environment and have created this series of planning and forecasting round tables to expose each attendee to Best of Class practices that are being utilized by successful companies similar to themselves, how to evaluate their current and future planning efforts and show and tell how to start optimizing their own planning process.
The series encompasses 5 specific sessions; one each month February through June. The expected outcome is for each attendee to effectively utilize this information to optimize their planning in their own environment. We encourage everyone to attend each session, but each round table will be self contained, so you will receive excellent value if you only attend one or more meetings. If you feel that your planning, budgeting and forecasting system within your organization could be optimized to help you better achieve your goals and objectives, then you should attend one or more of these round tables.
The first session will provide an overview on the planning, forecasting and budgeting process. Alan Boyer will present and lead the group in discussions on best practices for forecasting concepts recently featured in the articles “Let it Roll” from CFO Magazine, and “Planning for Uncertainty” from the Journal of Accountancy including. This meeting will focus in the following areas:
- Understanding why companies are moving to forecasts
- Ten common pitfalls (and best practices to use to avoid them)
- Five attributes of diamond forecasts
- How you can make your organization future ready
The second session will be a follow on to session one and focused on providing specific case studies and tools to enable each attendee to start reviewing and optimizing their own process. The intent here is to provide specific examples/case studies on how others have successfully implemented processes that work so that correlations can be drawn to help each attendee define the best methodology for their organization
7:30am Networking & Breakfast
8:00am Program Begins
9:00am Program Ends
Register for the Finance Roundtable: http://www.techamerica.org/Events/eventDetail.cfm?eventid=a0E4000000Srnt3EAB
