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Six Degrees news, trends and thought leadership in the field of budgeting and forecasting software.

Corporate performance management – strategy to sustainable performance

According to Price Waterhouse Coopers, organisations struggle mightily to meld their strategic intent with their operations, leaving a gap between the strategy they develop and their ability to execute that strategy in day-to-day business. What’s needed is a better capability to understand the pulse of the organisation – not only what is going on financially,… > Read more

Can you use MicroStrategy for Enterprise Planning? Yes, you can!

Six Degrees uses native MicroStrategy technology to deliver Enterprise Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting in one solution with MicroStrategy Analytics and Reporting. Grab your iPad, download the MicroStrategy App from iTunes if you don’t already have it, and go to http://tinyurl.com/mrn2zg6 to experience MicroStrategy Mobile delivering Enterprise Planning and Analytics anywhere, any time. Check out these… > Read more

Six Degrees Planning: gold sponsors of 2014 CFO Summit

Six Degrees Planning were gold sponsors of the 2014 CFO Summit at Sky City in Auckland today, and provided enterprise budgeting and forecasting software demonstrations to CFOs. Foodstuffs explaining their $150M transformational change project: Here is the Indigo stand with Chris and Sefton all ready to share software and jaffas:

Six Degrees Planning attends MicroStrategy World 2014

Can MicroStrategy deliver an enterprise financial performance management solution including planning and forecasting? Visit us on booth 1005 to see how Six Degrees utilises MicroStrategy to deliver a fully functional enterprise budgeting, planning, forecasting and consolidation solution – out of the box, with no additional software and no add-ins. There may be a bottle of… > Read more

Gartner say the benefits of fact-based decision-making are clear to managers

Original article on BizTech2.com The CIO focus on business intelligence (BI) and analytics looks set to continue through 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that the benefits of fact-based decision-making are clear to business managers in a broad range of disciplines, including: marketing, sales, supply chain management, manufacturing, engineering, risk management, finance and HR…. > Read more

Ovum predicts BI and analytics growth will drive proactive, real-time decisions

Article from Ovum.com. Ovum foretells of a maturing BI and analytics market that will enable more proactive and real-time decision making Growth in BI and analytics will continue strongly in 2014, driven by fundamental changes in how enterprises are using information to make business decisions. This is according to Ovum’s Business Intelligence 2014 Trends-to-Watch report*,… > Read more