CPM Articles
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Maximizing Efficiency with Integrated Budgeting and Planning Tools
Consolidation software brings everything together in one platform, offering a single source of truth for your financial information.
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The Future of Budgeting and Planning Solutions: Trends to Watch
With emerging technologies, enhanced data accessibility, and a deeper focus on agility, the future of financial planning holds the potential to empower organizations of all sizes.
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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Consolidation Software in 2024
Consolidation software brings everything together in one platform, offering a single source of truth for your financial information.
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5 Tips and Best Practices When Building Vena Templates and Reports
Building effective templates and reports in Vena requires careful attention to both performance and usability.
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Integrating Budgeting and Forecasting Solutions into Your Financial Strategy
Regular forecasting allows businesses to monitor financial performance against budgets and adjust strategies as needed, identifying potential risks and opportunities, and ensuring alignment with long-term business objectives.
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How Modern Budgeting and Forecasting Tools are Transforming Financial Planning
Modern tools integrate seamlessly with existing financial systems, automating data collection and analysis.
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Essential Features to Look for in Budgeting and Forecasting Tools
At Delbridge, we understand the pivotal role that robust budgeting and forecasting tools play in steering businesses toward success.
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ESG Reporting – What It Is and How Will Reshape the Corporate Landscape
ESG reporting refers to the practice of disclosing a company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance to stakeholders, which includes investors, customers, employees, regulators, and the public.
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Looking for Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting software for your business? Start with these tips!
As companies strive to optimize performance and make data-driven decisions, the demand for robust Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting software has increased significantly.
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Harnessing the Power of Anaplan with Delbridge: A Comprehensive Cloud-Based Planning Solution
Anaplan’s ground-breaking platform has been engineered with a clear objective: to deploy user-friendly applications capable of addressing complex planning challenges across an organization.
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How to Leverage Power BI in Analyzing Your Financial Data
Power BI offers a wide range of features like interactive charts, graphs, maps, amongst many others, for representing data and telling insightful stories.
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“If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It”… but Legacy Technologies?
While AI presents promising capabilities for converting legacy programming projects to new languages, it is crucial to consider its limitations and the complexity of the task at hand.
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How Can Workforce Management Solution Help Optimize an Organizations Employee Budgeting Process
Workforce management solutions provide a comprehensive set of tools that allow businesses to better manage their workforce, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency.
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Power BI: The Key to Driving Informed Decision-Making as a Finance Leader
The ability to quickly access and analyze data can mean the difference between success and failure in today’s fast-paced business environment.
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Delbridge and Vena for the Real Estate Industry
Companies in the Real Estate industry face a constantly changing market and it is crucial to have a flexible and efficient solution for managing their financial information.
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UAT Test Plan
User Acceptance Testing or UAT Testing is an inherent part of all Software Testing – irrespective of methodology.
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Rolling Forecasts: Why They Are Better Than Traditional Forecasting Processes
Rolling Forecasts provide 12 forecasting months regardless of the Actuals loaded, which means better visibility into an extended timeline.
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Business Intelligence vs Corporate Performance Management
While they may appear to be comparable on the surface, CPM and BI are actually quite distinct.
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Excel in CPM
Excel is a powerful tool that has become entrenched in business processes worldwide—whether for analyzing stocks or issuers, budgeting, or organizing client sales lists.
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Data Privacy in 2024
Everything You Need to Know about Data Privacy in 2024!
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Account Reconciliation Software in 2024
Everything you need to know about Account Reconciliation Software in 2024!
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Budgeting and Planning Software in 2024
Everything you need to know about Budgeting and Planning Software in 2024!
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Financial Consolidation Software in 2024
Everything you need to know about Financial Consolidation Software in 2022!
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Best Solutions for Data Privacy
Finding the solution to fix all your data privacy concerns can be difficult, as a lot of factors have to be taken into consideration.
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What you Need to Know about Data Privacy in 2024
A brief summary of what you need to know about data privacy in 2024.
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The Cost of Data Privacy in 2023
The Cost of Data Privacy in 2022 is hard to estimate, but can be measured by the average cost of a data breach.
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Automated Account Reconciliation
Automated account reconciliation relies heavily on modern software solutions.
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Best Account Reconciliation Software
Here’s how you can find the best account reconciliation software solutions for your company’s requirements.
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Modern Account Reconciliation
In 2021, modern account reconciliation means leveraging the most advanced software solutions in your company’s best interests.
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How to Select the Best Financial Consolidation Software – 9 Steps
Financial Consolidation Software is a solid investment in 2021. As more and more processes rely on automated software, the possibilities for your finance department are quickly expanding and aiding your success.
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Best Financial Consolidation Software in 2024
Financial Consolidation Software eases and speeds up the process of financial reporting, budgeting, consolidating, and analyzing large & complex data for companies.
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3 Ways Financial Consolidation Software Can Help You
One of the most common issues businesses’ financial departments face today is optimizing the financial consolidation process for efficiency. Financial statements are in increasing demand for both reporting and business visibility reasons.
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The Future of Modern Financial Consolidation Software
Not too long ago, all financial consolidation processes were dependent on messy Excel files. Both recent and longitudinal studies show that most large Excel sheets contain errors that lead to miscalculations that can affect your accounting department’s efficiency.
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Financial Consolidation Software for your Company
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that digital transformation is inevitable and will be an important part of the future in business.
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Best Practices in Financial Consolidation Software
Tips and tricks for new Financial Consolidation Software users, common pitfalls to keep in mind and avoid.
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Building and Maintaining Dashboards for Effective Data Delivery
A final step in any CPM implementation is planning how progress will be reported and insights gathered.
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How to Prepare for a Financial Consolidation Software Implementation Project
Designing one that fits the clients’ needs can be a challenge depending on the size and complexity of the organization.
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10 Things to Consider When Purchasing a CPM Solution for Financial Close Management
Quite often the features of a CPM solution can be utilized to support a financial close management system.
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Balance Sheet Planning in CPM
Balance sheet planning will provide the cash flow projection, decision on investments, meeting on bank coverage ratio as well as the overall financial health of the company.
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Weekly Operational Reporting
CPM allows customization of dimensions to support different business-cycle reporting.
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How to Design Workflow in a CPM Solution
Whether you work in a marketing agency or law firm, you have probably experienced some of the frustrations inherent in a manual workflow process.
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CPM Solution Implementation Potholes – Lessons Learned on the Road to Success
Implementing a new Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution is not a simple task.
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How to Improve your Planning with a Detailed HR Planning Solution?
HR planning is the process organizations use to plan recruitment, retain existing employees, and optimize the deployment of people.
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Benefits of Cash Flow Forecasting During a Pandemic
The current global pandemic has made it incredibly challenging for businesses to maintain their cash flow as it has left many businesses feeling uncertain about their financial futures.
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Best Practices for Preparing End User Training
After completion of implementation processes such as Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing, the next crucial implementation process is to train users to adapt to the new software.
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User Acceptance Testing
UAT is the point in an implementation where you as the client take time to go through a thorough examination of the solution and confirm that all aspects are working as intended.
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Remote Project Delivery
The COVID-19 impact continues to be devastating and has caused businesses to quickly pivot to a completely or partially remote workforce. Working remotely creates a new set of challenges that are being amplified as it affects how teams work and communicate.
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Moneyball Marketing: Becoming An Analytics-Driven Business
With the baseball post-season in full swing, and as businesses start planning for next year, it seems as good a time as any to talk about Moneyball and how it can apply to business.
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How Artificial Intelligence Will Play a Role in Corporate Performance Management
The internet, 3D printing, autonomous vehicles, single cup coffee machines – all examples of disruptive technology. In the last few decades we, as users of such technology, have seen fiction become reality.
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All About Business Analytics
Gone are the days or more appropriately “era”, when businesses used to operate or prosper based on decisions, taken purely on a hunch!
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Outsourcing CPM Implementation – Best Practices To Ensure a Successful Implementation
Without question, your business will benefit from improved data integrity, reduced manual processing and the wonderful, enhanced business analytics delivered by a solid Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution.
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Looking for a Lease Accounting Software to comply with ASC 842 or IFRS 16?
The revised standards under US-GAAP (ASC 842) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS 16) are poised to offer more transparency on a company’s financial picture to investors and stakeholders.
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Budgeting and Planning Software Implementation – Should You Outsource or Implement In-house?
Getting the most from your Budgeting and Planning Software implementation heavily relies on a successful platform implementation.
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What to look for in a Budgeting and Planning Software Solution?
IT departments have historically been intimately involved in most technology projects that an organization undertakes.
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Cloud or On-Premise… What’s Right For You?
An important step when selecting a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution is deciding whether to use a cloud-based or an on-premise solution.
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4 Best Practices for Implementing Budgeting and Planning Software Solutions
Leading budgeting and planning software solutions like CCH Tagetik, Adaptive Insights and Vena help businesses optimize their budgeting practices with automation and process enhancement.
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Benefits of a Cloud-Based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) Solution
With the increasing benefits of cloud servers, on-premise solutions are fast becoming obsolete and irrelevant.
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How to Implement your Budgeting Solution Right, the First Time!
A budgeting or reporting solution implementation can go smoothly if you apply some implementation best practices.
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What to Look for While Selecting a CPM Solution
With so many CPM solutions in the marketplace showcasing similar capabilities, choosing one can be a daunting task.
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From Start-up to Maturity: The Evolution of your Subscription-Based Business
Start-up businesses don’t remain start-ups forever, especially in the subscription economy where growth expectations of 50% or more per year are common.
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Are You Ready For the Cloud?
Professional services firms, small or large, are always looking to improve their operations. In recent times, Cloud computing has re-defined how firms manage their corporate solutions.
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Top 3 reasons why you should measure Employee Profitability and Profitability by Case
In today’s rapid changing market, the greatest asset of successful firms is the strength of its talented workforce.
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An Organization’s Secret Weapon: CPM and KPI Analysis
You need to focus on the issues and fires burning today-not tomorrow, so the most important consideration is to improve strategies that deliver optimum results.
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Migrating from Cognos FSR to CDM
BM Cognos Disclosure Management (CDM) is essentially an upgrade to IBM Cognos Financial Statement Reporting (FSR).
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Introducing IBM Cognos TM1 10.2
If you are using IBM Clarity 6/7 and considering migrating to a new solution, then Cognos TM1 might be the perfect fit for your organization.
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How to Build Effective Dashboards
The purpose of dashboards and scorecards is to provide key stakeholders with a high-level overview of their organization’s performance based on various metrics or KPI’s
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Best Practices for Budgeting and Planning
The rapidly changing business environment constantly challenges companies urging them to look for more effective business practices.
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How a Corporate Performance Solution can improve your Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) Planning
Including CAPEX as an integrated part of a Corporate Performance Management (CPM) solution can be beneficial to a firm’s overall success in budgeting and forecasting.
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IBM Clarity: What you need to consider when upgrading or choosing a new CPM solution
It is up to an organization to adapt to and embrace technology in a way that adds value through improved efficiency, reduced costs and value-added service to customers.
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How Corporate Performance Management can Improve HR Planning
A CPM solution can help you stay on track, within budget, and can help save administrative costs by consolidating all details into one centralized location.
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Benefits of using a Corporate Performance Management Solution
Many organizations today are faced with various business challenges.
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Key Issues with using Excel for Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Reporting
Are you still using Excel spreadsheets to manage your budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting requirements?
