Rob Hull is Featured Speaker at 2007 Intacct Advantage User Conference

Adaptive Planning Co-Founder and CFO will Speak on Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting Success Stories
 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 23, 2007 — Rob Hull , Co-Founder, CFO, and Vice President of Client Services of Adaptive Planning, will give insight into how to transform budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes in a matter of weeks, when he speaks at 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, October 25 at the Intacct Advantage User Conference, the industry's leading financial management conference, held at the San Jose Convention Center October 24-26, 2007.

The presentation by Hull will highlight real-world case studies on how leading mid-market companies and nonprofit organizations such as AAA, CollabNet, Med-Eng, NASCO, and SourceForge have been able to move beyond Excel and decrease budgeting times by 70% while reducing errors; enable monthly re-forecasting; deeply involve business unit managers in planning and reporting; and perform timely what-if analyses to support key decisions.

Hull will also show how his company's software as a service (SaaS)-based budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution can be used in conjunction with Intacct's SaaS-based accounting solution for small and midsized businesses. By using both solutions, companies enjoy a complete on-demand financial solution for managing actual results, budgets, forecasts, monthly and quarterly variance reports, and what-if analyses.

Adaptive Planning allows midsized companies and divisions of large corporations to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. With free software , free trials , and on-demand and on-site deployment options , Adaptive Planning is the easiest budgeting, forecasting, and reporting solution available for small and midsized companies. With Adaptive Planning, companies can:

• Eliminate manual spreadsheet consolidation -- saving months of time

• Improve plan accuracy and integrity by reducing errors due to broken links and formulas

• Deliver intuitive drag and drop reporting to finance and business managers

• Instantaneously view key business metrics on graphical dashboards

• Rapidly analyze changing business conditions and what-if scenarios

• Increase the strategic value of finance while fostering collaboration with business users

To learn more about Adaptive Planning or participate in the company's test drive programs—view an online demo, obtain a free trial of its full-featured Enterprise Edition, or get free access to its entry-level Express Edition—please visit www.adaptiveplanning.com.

About Adaptive Planning
Adaptive Planning is the leading provider of collaborative business performance management (BPM) solutions. Adaptive Planning makes it easy for midsize companies and departments of larger corporations to move beyond spreadsheets and improve decisions by automating their budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis. Adaptive Planning provides extraordinary flexibility and value, with on-demand and on-site solutions, open source and commercial licensing terms, and pricing—including a free version of the product—that delivers a total cost of ownership that is a fraction of the cost of traditional BPM and business intelligence software. Adaptive Planning is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. and can be reached at 650-528-7500 or www.adaptiveplanning.com .