PlanGuru announced the launch of PlanGuru 2011, a complete rewrite of their budgeting and forecasting software package. Thousands of businesses, non-profits and financial professionals have used previous versions of PlanGuru to build more accurate budgets, plans and forecasts in a fraction of the time that it takes in spreadsheet software. PlanGuru 2011 carries on that tradition by being significantly more powerful and intuitive, while maintaining a simple, low pricing structure. PlanGuru 2011 can be used in a myriad of ways: from entrepreneurs building a high-level forecast for the bank, to large organizations building multi-departmental operating budgets. The consolidation feature in PlanGuru allows for budgeting an unlimited number of departments and an unlimited number of tiers within a hierarchy. [Read more…]
Archives for August 2011
Best-Practice Planning Solutions for Higher Education from Alight Planning
Alight LLC and Ralph Harker Associates formed a strategic partnership to deliver a budgeting, reporting and planning solution customized for higher education. Dr. Andrew Harker, president of Ralph Harker Associates and director of Budget Management at Stanford University, worked with Alight to co-develop best-practice planning models. After working with dozens of small and large institutions of learning, Harker and the Alight team identified tuition planning, endowment modeling, and personnel planning as three key areas that were ripe for standardization and best practice solutions. Higher education finance and budget departments can now leverage the hard work that went into standardizing these models to immediately streamline and improve planning processes. [Read more…]