Rob Hull of Adaptive Planning to be Featured Speaker in Business Finance Webinar

Adaptive Planning CFO to Speak Online On How Finance Teams Can Achieve New Levels of Success in 2008
 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – October 30, 2007 — Rob Hull, Co-Founder, CFO, and VP of Client Services of Adaptive Planning, will discuss key best practices that are followed by top-performing finance teams in a Business Finance magazine webinar entitled “How Finance Teams Can Achieve New Levels of Success in 2008,” to be held on November 6 at 1:00pm EST.

Attendees can register for and sign in to the webinar by clicking HERE.
The webinar, which will also feature speaker Craig Schiff, CEO of analyst firm BPM Partners, will show how finance professionals can start now to maximize the performance of their organizations in 2008. Topics will include best practices for optimizing financial processes and creating greater strategic value, including how to:

• Streamline monthly variance reporting and analysis

• Deliver more frequent forecasts, including rolling forecasts

• Perform timely “what-if?” analyses

• Gain real-time visibility into key performance metrics

• Eliminate manual spreadsheet consolidations

• Involve business managers in planning, forecasting, and reporting

In addition to discussing best practices, Schiff and Hull will review real-world case studies that show how leading companies and non-profit organizations such as AAA, American Red Cross, CollabNet, NFI Industries, Unitrin, and others have been able to achieve new levels of success by automating and streamlining their budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and analysis.

Adaptive Planning allows midsized companies and divisions of large corporations to move beyond spreadsheets and automate their key financial processes, including budgeting, forecasting, monthly and quarterly variance reporting, and what-if analyses. 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 businesses. Companies using Adaptive Planning 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 .