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In today’s healthcare landscape, technology is instrumental in facilitating the strategies of healthcare business leaders. Technology also provides these executives with access to the critical data that they need for decision making, planning, and forecasting.

With such proven and widely recognized benefits, how many companies are using rolling forecasts today? The short answer is, it depends on whom you ask. On the whole, adoption rates range from less than 5% to over 75%, depending on how you define a true rolling forecast.

As digitization drives business at ever-faster speeds, CFOs recognize the need to keep pace. They understand the importance of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) solutions that allow their finance teams to develop budgets and forecasts quickly and accurately. They need confidence in their numbers and the decisions they drive. But selecting the right FP&A software is only half the battle.

Based on in-depth research and customer interviews, the annual Nucleus Research Value Matrix map out the corporate performance management (CPM) market landscape, evaluating vendors on a matrix contrasting usability and ease-of-use versus features and depth of functionality. Read or download the 2018 edition to uncover the most up-to-date CPM landscape, to find the best finance software solution for your needs, and to see why Vena led the pack in usability to land in the Leader quadrant for the third straight year.

Discover how Vena’s partnership with Sage Intacct brings together the leader in FP&A software satisfaction and ease-of-use with the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management solutions.

Adobe automates the process of turning insights into action by connecting Adobe Analytics to other solutions in Adobe Experience Cloud, including Adobe Target and Adobe Audience Manager. Four features make this possible: • Anomaly detection. The technology automatically analyzes trends and determines if they are statistically significant — in milliseconds. • Analyze play button. With analytics, you can take insights and connect them to your email, DMP, and personalization platform in seconds. • Intelligent alert. A built-in alerting system sends an SMS text or email when it detects an anomaly. There are also predictive algorithms that help you forecast how often the alert is likely to trigger. You can set these to only notify you of the most important changes. • Intelligent recommendations. It’s simply impossible to manually create every alert you might need, so Adobe is building machine learning directly into analytics to analyze users’ behaviors. Like a virtual data assistant, it co

After filing for bankruptcy in 2012, the Real Mex Restaurant Brands turned their stores’ performance and sales around with the help of HotSchedules Activity-Based Forecasting Module.

Analysis of 55 million product SKUs. Aggregated and anonymous data from more than one trillion visits to 4,500 retail websites. Billions of data points flowing through Adobe Experience Cloud. It’s no wonder our holiday shopping predictions are the most comprehensive and accurate in the industry. View the report, Adobe Digital Insights 2017 Holiday Shopping Predictions, and learn: Total forecasted online holiday revenue, broken down by day and device Top gifts on consumers’ wish lists this holiday season Best days for buying based on discounts and out-of-stock risks

Last year at this time, we forecast a bumpy ride for infosec through 2017, as ransomware continued to wreak havoc and new threats emerged to target a burgeoning Internet of Things (IoT) landscape. ‘New IT’ concepts – from DevOps to various manifestations of the impact of cloud – seemed poised to both revolutionize and disrupt not only the implementation of security technology, but also the expertise required of security professionals as well. Our expectations for the coming year seem comparatively much more harmonious, as disruptive trends of prior years consolidate their gains. At center stage is the visibility wrought by advances in data science, which has given new life to threat detection and prevention – to the extent that we expect analytics to become a pervasive aspect of offerings throughout the security market in 2018. This visibility has unleashed the potential for automation to become more widely adopted, and not a moment too soon, given the scale and complexity of the thre

AccuWeather meets burgeoning demand through server consolidation with Intel Xeon processors, bolstering performance up to six-fold while halving power consumption.

More than 23 million servers in the world are still running on the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system, making it the most popular engine for serving information and applications globally for over a decade. But, starting in July 2015, Microsoft will no longer provide basic support for it.

This report consists of research and important statistics in an effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic.

This Cisco Survey provides an important summary and analysis of worldwide results.

Worldwide social network ad spending is expected to reach nearly $9 billion in 2013, a 33% increase over 2012. While Facebook will maintain a significant share of the 2013 total ($5.48 billion), that leaves $3.5 billion to be spent on fast-rising Twitter, Chinese social networks, social games, LinkedIn and other sites.

In May of 2015, CFO Research conducted a global survey of senior finance executives at large companies, to examine the pressures they face in providing timely, accurate cash reporting and cash forecasting to business decision makers across the enterprise. This report is based on 371 survey responses from CFOs, treasurers, and other senior finance and treasury executives at companies with more than $250 million in annual revenues, representing a broad range of company segments.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy. It supports retail core processes end to end, starting with master data down to point-of-sales (POS) connectivity. It allows insights into operational retail data, empowering users with contextual, real time information for faster and better decision making. Processes can easily be extended to connect to business networks to form a digital ecosystem and collaboratively drive business model improvements. Equipped with a simple and intuitive user experience, the solution offers better support for headquarters users as well as store associates to drive compelling customer experiences.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy. It supports retail core processes end to end, starting with master data down to point-of-sales (POS) connectivity.

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy.

This report consists of research and important statistics in an effort to forecast the growth of global data center and cloud-based IP traffic.

This Cisco Survey provides an important summary and analysis of worldwide results.

The supply chain generates huge volumes of data captured in ERP, CRM, demand planning and other systems. Download this whitepaper to learn how FusionOps Machine Learning can provide companies with a more accurate, granular understanding of their business by harmonizing these disparate data sources in the cloud, and applying machine learning algorithms.

Life science companies are adopting innovative cloud technology to provide a single source of truth for end-to-end supply chain decision-making. Read this CIO interview to learn how H.D. Smith is using FusionOps supply chain intelligence software to improve efficiency, cost, and quality. Interview Highlights: • How to improve time to actionable insights using a cloud platform • How to improve service levels and forecast accuracy through deeper intelligence into the supply chain • How to enable cross-functional collaboration to make better business decisions and drive performance improvement

With many companies finding themselves under prepared for the downturn, they turned to often poorly structured forecasts on which to make business decisions. Where are the problems? Read this white paper to learn how forecasting can help in 3 ways.

For an increasing number of organizations, enterprise performance management (EPM) tools are enabling senior finance executives to integrate plans, understand where they're losing money, move from annual budgets to rolling forecasts, and identify opportunities for strategic improvements. During this Webcast, a panel of experts will explore: • Why business intelligence and business analytics are each important to your business; • How Big Data and analytics can help your organization answer more questions and ask even better ones; • The capabilities that enterprise performance management software offers organizations; and • How to evaluate what your organization can gain by implementing enterprise performance management software.

With Prophix you can produce rolling forecasts, multi-year forecasts, daily forecasts and driver-based forecasts. With a centralized application, organizing fragmented data from multiple sources and change assumptions easily and create a multitude of scenarios.