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Making the Business Case for Cloud-Based Planning and Reporting

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Are you ready to upgrade to a cloud-based EPM solution that can help you spend more time on value-added analysis and less time on data collection and fixing Excel errors? Reducing Reliance on Spreadsheets for Budgeting, Planning, and Reporting. Lack of security sending budgeting spreadsheets via email.

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6 Things IT Executives Need to Know About Cloud-Based EPM

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I’m not saying that corporate budgeting, planning, forecasting, and reporting aren’t important processes – these are certainly critical to the business. Security that is even better than most on-premises data centers. 2. Focus resources on mission-critical systems – The last point is an important one.

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Top 3 Reasons EPM Is Moving to the Cloud

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To support this, EPM includes the following management processes: Budgeting, planning, forecasting, and modeling. Accelerate planning, consolidation, and reporting to deliver results faster and shift more time to value-added analysis. Consolidating results and closing the books on a periodic basis.