by fifteen | Jan 10, 2018 | News
From the growing move toward making finance a strategic business partner to the challenges of addressing new revenue recognition standards, FP&A managers and practitioners had plenty on their plates in 2017—and have myriad challenges and opportunities ahead of...
by fifteen | Dec 29, 2017 | News
Background There are many software products that claim to support CPM, but often they only support some aspects, for example financial planning and reporting. One of the issues is that the term CPM is synonymous with budgeting, forecasting and management reporting...
by fifteen | Dec 18, 2017 | News
Clients have been calling in with questions about the exciting next generation of the IBM Cognos Business Intelligence platform – known as IBM Cognos Analytics, v11. Besides wanting to know what is new, one of the common questions we hear is: Will my Cognos 10.x...
by fifteen | Dec 5, 2017 | News
Make no mistake: Decades-old spreadsheets are not built to handle the complexities of modern, fast-paced businesses. They’re great personal productivity tools, but can present major accuracy issues when shared across multiple users and locations. So for all of you...
by fifteen | Nov 10, 2017 | News
The Cognos Analytics team has been hard at work on new enhancements, and I am thrilled to announce that release 8 (11.0.8) is now generally available. This release tackles a lot of those small, but significant, enhancements that will help you and your users get the...
by fifteen | Oct 27, 2017 | News
The Business Application Research Center (BARC) recently examined solutions for planning, budgeting and forecasting in what it called “the world‘s largest and most comprehensive survey of planning software users.” BARC reported on its findings in The Planning Survey...