Fact Based Decisions

Hitting a Home Run with Cloud CPM

keri_brooke — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:07:34 +0000

As many of us are familiar, corporate and organizational budgets can take months to aggregate and finalize, leaving little nor no time for strategic and insightful analysis. Worse still, mistakes can be made and remain undiscovered, creating inaccuracies in the financial reporting that the executive team is viewing. The results can lead to wasted hours on data collection and verification that hurts the bottom line.

The Impact of the Cloud

Kelly Battles — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:23:27 +0000

Cloud technologies are having a growing and very positive impact on corporate finance as well. I’ll be digging deeper on this subject with special guest Paul Hamerman, a Forrester VP and principal analyst, in a live webinar that’ll be replayed on our site.

Life as a Cloud CIO

RBroome — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 15:16:37 +0000

Cloud computing and Software as Service (SaaS) are absolutely re-defining today’s business landscape – and changing the manner in which tomorrow’s most successful companies will operate.

Three key metrics that drive the EPM selection process

Mikki Ware — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:55:07 +0000

In a webinar presented by Host Analytics on August 1, we will first examine the best practices to make budgeting more effective and more efficient. This will lead naturally to the first step of a software selection approach.

Drive performance with metrics-driven, fact-based decision making

Mikki Ware — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 19:14:23 +0000

Join Host Analytics on Tuesday, July 31 for the free webinar “Drive Performance Best Practices with SaaS Metrics and Benchmarking.” Lauren Kelley, CEO of OPEXEngine, will present key software industry benchmarks from OPEXEngine's comprehensive financial and operating benchmarking report.

How CIOs Can Help You Embrace the Cloud

Mikki Ware — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:30:29 +0000

In a free webinar today at 8am PT, CIO, Douglas Menefee, of the Schumacher Group will talk about why they embraced the Cloud, Host Analytics, and what it meant for their Finance team.

Q&A Series with Jon Kondo: It’s All About The Customer

keri_brooke — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 15:26:00 +0000

The office has been abuzz lately over a recent Q&A series with our own CEO Jon Kondo. Beyond discussing Jon’s personal story as an entrepreneur, the seven-piece Entrepreneur Journeys series, written by veteran journalist Sramana Mitra, reinforces the one thing that matters most to him and to everyone else at Host Analytics: our customers.

Industry Analysts Singing the Praise of Host Analytics

Jon Kondo — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:09:01 +0000

As the number one provider of the only complete, cloud CPM suite for finance, our solutions help our customers make better operational and financial decisions, streamline budgeting and forecasting, and close books faster, with 100 percent precision.

Decisions 2012 – Bridging the GAAP

Jon Kondo — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:49:05 +0000

The theme for this year’s conference is “Bridging the GAAP.” New research confirms CFOs have far too little time to conduct proper strategy. Something has to give. At the conference, we’re going to demonstrate through Host Analytics and partner best practice and customer presentations how a cloud CPM approach helps organizations make much better operational and financial decisions by streamlining and automating their consolidations, planning and reporting processes.

Host Analytics Decisions 2012: headed to Austin in less than two weeks

Mikki Ware — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:27:37 +0000

If you have to first convince your boss that it is worth your time and the company's money to attend Decisions 2012, make sure to point out how you will be able to solve immediate problems in your finance processes and understand how you can use technology in your longer term initiatives.