New Blog Series: FP&A Done Right
I am an "FP&A guy." I love this stuff. I love every part of it - from the last-minute changes to the long range planning sessions and everything in between. Throughout my career, I’ve had the opportunity to be involved in all…
January 11, 2019
New Performance Tune-Up Service for TM1 & IBM Planning Analytics Users
In response to customer requests, we’ve been expanding our Customer Care program. The newest option is a Performance Tune-Up. Proper maintenance of your TM1/Planning Analytics environment is the key to overall good health and performance. Think of our team as your “mechanics”…
November 15, 2018
Are you ready for your Finance Transformation?
Are you ready for a new FP&A solution? Have you been thinking about replacing your current management reporting and forecasting/planning solution? Maybe you have outgrown your current system? Perhaps you are snickering now because you are still just using Excel and you’re…
January 19, 2018
Survey Finds the Office of Finance to Double its Adoption of Analytics
The IBM Center for Applied Insights surveyed 337 senior finance leaders on their adoption of analytics. It may not be surprising, but the survey found that organizations plan to double adoption of analytics in all areas of finance in the next two…
September 13, 2017
Top 10 Steps for a Successful FPM Project
We’ve created a list of the top 10 steps organizations should take for a successful financial performance management project. These steps were honed over more than two decades of experience designing and implementing financial performance management solutions based on IBM Analytics technologies.…
September 8, 2017
Ovum: “Majority of CFOs aren’t happy with quality of financial planning and analysis”
According to an Ovum report, a “majority of CFOs aren’t happy with the quality of financial planning and analysis and are looking for ways to make finance a more ‘inclusive’ and ‘insightful’ function.” And while the report discusses why traditional planning processes…
May 10, 2017
The Role of Finance Reimagined: A Manifesto
Our world is in the midst of a transformative technological revolution that is impacting every nation, industry, enterprise and human being on this planet. It is a revolution because it is radical and happening so fast. It is transformative because it is…
April 12, 2017
My Mission to Transform FP&A
After spending almost 13 years in various global, domestic and corporate FP&A roles at Hertz Rent-a-Car, I’m nearly one year into my position as a managing consultant at Revelwood. The turning of the year, if you will, into year two at Revelwood,…