Of course, there are cases where free really does mean free. But when it comes to using free quoting tools for your business, you may actually be paying a very high price. Spreadsheets and downloadable templates that cost nothing are fine for many business processes, but when relied on for creating quotes and proposals, they can cost you significantly in lost time and potentially lost sales. Making the switch to a CPQ (configure-price-quote) solution will help you automate time-consuming tasks, minimize errors, and create more compelling and professional sales quotes with just a few clicks.This eBook takes a look at how your current process could be hurting your business, and reasons why a quoting tool may be the best way to stop the pain.

For many insurers, this accounting process will look familiar: • Tools and processes vary for different lines of business. • The needed data is stored in hundreds of files. • Calculations are performed by multiple, undocumented spreadsheets, with little or no version control. • Humans have to step in to help cobble together data from different channels. • The process of preparing and presenting financial data is not manageable or traceable. • The path from input data to P&L numbers is largely a black box. In a simpler time, this patchwork was passable. But change is coming. New regulations will bring greater complexity to the accounting process for insurers, which will make semi-manual, legacy processes look like a house of cards and raise doubts about the validity of the final numbers on the P&L sheet.

Consultants and advisors are on the front lines of benefits data analytics. They’re the folks who dig through thousands of rows in a spreadsheet to surface problems and find solutions. In this whitepaper, we’ll dive deep on the advantages consultants offer to employers: • Access to data analytics, trend analysis, and program measurement • The expertise to identify, track, and take action on chronic conditions in a member population • The industry insight into public policy and regulation changes

Quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business. Our latest Spring 2010 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to use Excel spreadsheet so you can edit and add information to suit your analysis and presentation needs.

Business Spend Management Improves Visibility and Control Over Spend for Financial Leaders Closing the books can be a tedious, manual process when accrual balances don’t match AP balances and a backlog of invoices cause an increase in resource hours. Get insight on how Salesforce and Ionis Pharmaceuticals leverage business spend management to streamline the financial close. Read this eBook to learn how to: • Automate spend processes to cut heavy manual workloads • Gain full visibility and control over spend • Move from transactional “spreadsheet jockey” to strategic management • Minimize risk associated with missed accruals

Curves® and Jenny Craig® operate 7,000 Curves clubs and franchises globally and 400 Jenny Craig locations supported by IT service desks in California, Texas, and Australia. The two organizations combined to form Curves Jenny Craig in November 2013. Outdated systems, known internally as “the black hole,” plagued Jenny Craig with inefficient processes and created a lack of accountability. For example, records could not be categorized or prioritized properly, tracked by date or owner, and they could be intentionally hidden in an ambiguous status. Without visibility, Jenny Craig had no way to quantify the impact of their customer service. Mary Carter, manager of IT service, summed it up, “We had no reporting prior Cherwell Service Management.” Curves was in even worse shape as they logged tickets in an Excel® spreadsheet.

Domo brings data from any system, spreadsheet or application into a single real-time platform. Decision makers can access the data they need, when they need it, without having to wait on any reports. And it completely transforms the way you manage business.

© 2018 Carbonite, Inc. All rights reserved. Case study Diamond Foods’ Diamond of California® nuts are household staples for shoppers across the U.S. But constantly filling grocery store shelves with snacks requires intricate supply chain management that relies on critical business data, including complex spreadsheets and enterprise resource planning files, to keep production and deliveries on schedule. “If our critical servers go down or we lose important data on employee laptops, it has a direct impact on our bottom line,” says Kentrell Davis, Senior Client Support Services Analyst at Diamond Foods.

There are obviously a variety of choices open to you: a spreadsheet plug-in may be appropriate if you are only focused on general ledger reporting and do not have concerns over security or compliance. You might also suppose that this is a low-cost option, though we would argue that the remediation required, the additional audit fees and the lack of repeatability means that this is a false economy and that this approach will end up costing you more in the long term. A second use case would be where you already have a financial reporting solution installed, when the add-on facilities for purposes such as business intelligence are likely to be your major focus. In this case an Oracle based solution is likely to be as good as anything else.

Are you managing people with spreadsheets and paper because you think it saves you time and money? The reality is it's probably costing you a lot more than you think. Read this white paper to see how.

Financial consolidation is a process that is usually used to aggregate financial results from multiple legal entities and to make adjustments to the results. However, many financial professionals regard it as a necessary evil that can be handled either in a “hit and miss” way using spreadsheets or comprehensively with software that can handle extremely complex situations but that is also expensive. Prophix provides a third alternative that is easy to use, has a low cost of ownership and is attractive to mid-market companies.

For over 25 years, Prophix has served as a valuable partner to professionals in corporate Finance departments around the globe. In so doing, Prophix has continuously developed, tested, and refined technology solutions that help companies become more profitable, more efficient, and more future-ready.

Still relying on legacy ERP and spreadsheets? Chances are that you're losing out on your data's true potential and putting your organisation at risk as the digital economy expands. Learn why now is the perfect time for growing organisations to switch the cloud ERP. Read the report.

Still using spreadsheets for financial planning? With multiple templates? Leading to serious versioning and collaboration difficulties? AI-driven integrated, digitized financial planning is the answer. Helping you spend less time gathering and consolidating data, and more time unearthing the key insights and accurate forecasting hidden within it. Download the white paper and find out how harnessing AI can supercharge FP&A.

• Use CA Live API Creator to deliver running prototypes in hours. Convert business requirements into working software. • Not just for wireframes, but also for running systems, databases, logic and user interfaces. It’s as simple as a spreadsheet and just as fast. • Impress your business users with results in hours to get their feedback on the data model and logic. Iterate instantly. • All you need is in the box. No IDE to install or configure. Just use your browser.

There are five ways to provision test data. You can copy or take a snapshot of your production database or databases. You can provision data manually or via a spreadsheet. You can derive virtual copies of your production database(s). You can generate subsets of your production database(s). And you can generate synthetic data that is representative of your production data but is not actually real. Of course, the first four examples assume that the data you need for testing purposes is available to you from your production databases. If this is not the case, then only manual or synthetic data provision is a viable option. Download this whitepaper to find out more about how CA Technologies can help your business and its Test Data problems.

The latest version of CA Project & Portfolio Management facilitates core financial activities with the ease and familiarity of a spreadsheet. Two years ago, CA began to reevaluate how organizations were leveraging their project and portfolio management solutions. Our goal was to identify ways CA Project & Portfolio Management (CA PPM) could better serve every user, from project, resource and financial managers to executive decision makers and team members. CA PPM 15.3 simplifies the job of the financial manager with Microsoft Excel®-like functionality, embedded communication and collaboration features, and direct links to the industry’s most popular reporting and business intelligence tools.

Financial management is the heart of project delivery, so why do so many people get it wrong? Sure, there are some projects that have to be done for regulatory reasons, and there will be a small percentage of initiatives that fall into the speculative category, but sooner or later the projects an organization delivers have to generate a return on investment (ROI). The old adage is that we manage what we measure. If we aren’t measuring financial information properly, how can we hope to manage our investments effectively? To learn more about how CA Project & Portfolio Management supports financial management, download today.

Even after more than 30 years, it's easy to see why Excel remains so popular. It's flexible, powerful and irreplaceable - especially in finance and accounting. But how well does it work in FP&A today? That's the question that Vena and the Association of Finance Professionals set out to answer in this objective research-based guide, Making Excel Work for FP&A. From taking advantage of Excel's full feature set, to adopting FP&A software built around Excel, there's no shortage of ways to get the most out of Excel for your FP&A needs.

Business decision making is undergoing a data-infused renaissance. Organizations are tired of the limitations of spreadsheets and dealing with long IT business intelligence (BI) development cycles just to gain access to the data they need now. Fortunately, with the advent of visual analytics and discovery tools (many offered in the cloud), the journey to data insight is getting simpler and faster. Rather than trying to divine meaning from a group of predefined reports or simple static dashboards, visual analytics helps users gain insights from data more quickly using intuitive data visualization. Increasingly, visual analytics tools provide easy-touse data preparation features for better data access. They support collaboration, mashups, and storytelling. TDWI Research sees growing interest in applying more modern, up-to-date tools for working with data.

Still relying on legacy ERP and spreadsheets? Chances are that you're losing out on your data's true potential and putting your organisation at risk as the digital economy expands. Learn why now is the perfect time for growing organisations to switch the cloud ERP. Read the report.

Vertrouwt u nog steeds op legacy-ERP en spreadsheets? De kans is groot dat u het potentieel van uw data niet optimaal benut en uw organisatie in gevaar brengt naarmate de digitale economie groeit. Ontdek waarom vandaag het perfecte moment is om over te stappen op cloud-ERP. Lees het rapport.

Still relying on legacy ERP and spreadsheets? Chances are that you're losing out on your data's true potential and putting your organisation at risk as the digital economy expands. Learn why now is the perfect time for growing organisations to switch the cloud ERP. Read the report.

Vertrouwt u nog steeds op legacy-ERP en spreadsheets? De kans is groot dat u het potentieel van uw data niet optimaal benut en uw organisatie in gevaar brengt naarmate de digitale economie groeit. Ontdek waarom vandaag het perfecte moment is om over te stappen op cloud-ERP. Lees het rapport.

Still relying on legacy ERP and spreadsheets? Chances are that you're losing out on your data's true potential and putting your organisation at risk as the digital economy expands. Learn why now is the perfect time for growing organisations to switch the cloud ERP. Read the report.