Jeremy Finn is a Revelwood Hero
Every job has an upside and a downside. For Jeremy, a budget manager in the commercial property and casualty insurance industry, the upside of his role is to manage corporate expenses, revenue forecasting, reporting and analysis for a leading company. The downside…
June 4, 2014
Revelwood Hero: Dina Bank
Starting a new job can be exciting, but also stressful. But how would you like to step into Dina Bank’s shoes? Her first task as the director of financial systems for a full-service media and marketing communications agency was to oversee the…
April 23, 2014
Revelwood Hero: Carrie Ludwiczak
There’s a reason the term ‘Excel hell’ is well known – many, many financial analysts and companies find themselves beholden to hundreds of spreadsheets for their budgeting and financial planning processes. Carrie Ludwiczak, a senior financial analyst with a consumer loan company…
February 5, 2014
Revelwood’s BPM Suite Named Best FP&A Technology Tool
We’re pleased to share that yesterday the Revelwood BPM Suite (now called Lightspeed) was named Best FP&A Technology Tool at the Financial Forecasting & Planning Innovation Conference! The BPM Suite is an out-of-the box implementation accelerator for mid-market and enterprise financial planning, reporting and…
September 11, 2013
IBM’s Mark Enslin on Revelwood’s IBM Gold TM1 Accreditation
Mark Enslin, business analytics accreditation program manager for IBM, sat down with us to talk about the IBM Software Practice Accelerator and how Revelwood became the first IBM Business Partner to earn IBM Cognos TM1 Gold Accreditation Q: Can you give us…
August 13, 2013
The ROI of Analytics
The Oakland Athletics general manager, Billy Beane, proved the ROI of analytics and shared it in the wildly popular book and movie, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Nucleus Research has proved that analytics delivers for business as well; the…
July 9, 2013
Beyond Budgeting: The Case for Rolling Forecasts
Recently I had the opportunity to hear my CEO, Ken Wolf, speak at the New Jersey Chapter of Financial Executive Internationals on the much debated topic of rolling forecasts. A former accountant, self-proclaimed rolling forecast advocate, and CEO of a performance management…
April 16, 2013
Revelwood Hero: Mike Briscoe
Mike Briscoe’s colleagues at a real estate investment trust consider him an IBM Cognos TM1 “wizard,” and go to him for anything related to reports. In fact, there isn’t a TM1 report that Mike can’t create. “With less time spent gathering information…