Budgeting Software Journal

Brunswick Corporation, a market leader in the marine, fitness, and bowling and billiards industries, has successfully implemented Longview Consolidation to streamline and improve financial consolidation and management reporting processes at the corporate level and across its four global operating units – Mercury Marine Group, Brunswick Boat Group, Life Fitness Division, and Brunswick Bowling & Billiards. [Read more →]

Alight LLC announced the immediate availability of Alight Enterprise 6.1 featuring the Alight Report Writer interface that lets plan administrators precisely format report books for printing and distribution in Excel workbooks and PDF format. Even though Alight received the highest overall customer satisfaction rating in the latest BPM Partners 2010 survey, the Alight team is listening to customers and prospects to improve the product and offering.

In announcing the release, Ben Lamorte, VP of Marketing and Sales at Alight, said: “One of the primary reasons Alight is rated #1 in the BPM software space, is Alight’s unique ability to answer CFO-level questions in real time during the meeting. Users quickly change assumptions and see the impact on cash flow and key performance indicators and can even add and compare what-if scenarios on-the-fly leveraging Alight’s interactive key-measure dashboard. On occasions, however, Alight users have asked for ‘report writer’ output—distributable, printable views of specific reports with precise formatting, defined
levels of detail, and controlled order and organization of presentation. That’s what the new Alight Report Writer delivers.” [Read more →]

Rand Heer, Alight CEO and founder and architect of the original Pillar software, and Ben Lamorte, VP Marketing & Sales will present a pre-conference workshop to address the challenges and application solutions for implementing rolling forecasts. In addition, Heer will lead a breakout session: Forecasting for Black Swans: FP&A’s Role in Preparing for High-Impact, Improbable Events as part of The Performance Conference 2010 set for October 12-14 at Bally’s Las Vegas. [Read more →]

Isidore has launched industry specific budgeting and forecasting solutions for insurance, aviation, mining and manufacturing industries, as well as the public sector. [Read more →]

Alight LLC announced the implementation of the company’s application at the California Academy of Sciences, a leading-edge scientific research and educational institution, and The Blood & Tissue Center of Central Texas, the provider of community blood supplies for 37 medical facilities. Both organizations are highly visible not-for-profit institutions that replaced error-prone spreadsheets and cumbersome budgeting software packages with Alight Planning. [Read more →]

Isidore is now part of the QlikTech partner network. This partnership allows Isidore customers to benefit from company’s expertise in functional BI Solutions in many important areas throughout the enterprise.

QlikView recently scored exceptionally well in the newly released BI Survey 8 – the world’s largest independent survey of Business Intelligence and Performance Management users conducted by the Business Application Research Center. QlikView ranked first in ease of use and customer loyalty, outperforming industry leaders SAP, Oracle, and IBM. [Read more →]

Alight LLC was ranked #1 in overall customer satisfaction in the Vendor Landscape Matrix for Business Performance Management recently published by BPM Partners, a leading independent authority on business performance management (BPM) solutions. Alight outranked all twenty-five competitors in the performance management and business intelligence market including many well known mid-sized and enterprise software vendors. A detailed list of the vendors rated is available in the research report. [Read more →]

Rand Heer, Alight CEO and founder and architect of the original Pillar application, and Ben Lamorte, Vice President Business Development, will present a pre-conference workshop to address the challenges and solutions for implementing rolling forecasts at 1:00 pm, Wednesday September 8th as part of the Financial Forecasting & Planning Summit set for September 8-10 at the InterContinental in Boston. [Read more →]

Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial planning and reporting software, today announced that Ben Lamorte, VP Business Development, and Rand Heer, Alight CEO and founder and architect of the original Pillar software, will present a concurrent session to address the challenges and application solutions for implementing rolling forecasts at 1:50pm – 3:30pm, Tuesday, July 20th as part of the AICPA Controllers Workshop set for July 20-21 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV. [Read more →]

Clarity Systems released CLARITY 7, the latest release of the only truly unified and open CPM solution on the market. CLARITY 7 delivers breakthrough speed with the ability to generate many thousands of reports per hour, and now also delivers powerful new functionality spanning multiple areas and even easier to use interfaces. Within this single, unified application, CLARITY 7 covers all CPM processes in one software product, with one web-based user interface, delivering a powerful yet easy-to-use application for administrators and end-users alike. [Read more →]