Jon Kondo, CEO of Host Analytics and guest industry analyst Kathleen Wilhide Research Director for Business Performance Management Solutions at IDC, discuss CPM strategies in the current economy particularly within the mid-market.
Host Analytics is dedicated to helping your organization increase stakeholder value by driving improvements in the planning and performance management process, delivered using the most innovative, efficient and effective methodologies.
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Host Analytics is the leading provider of on-demand corporate performance management. Host Analytics’ solutions help financial and departmental executives improve their budgeting, forecasting, financial consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting and analysis.
Founded in 2000, Host Analytics delivers its suite of corporate performance management solutions using Software as a Service on-demand delivery. Host Analytics serves the enterprise, large and midsize company and public sector markets.
Host Analytics is dedicated to helping your organization increase stakeholder value by driving improvements in the planning and performance management processes, delivered using the most innovative, efficient and effective methodologies. We help finance, sales and operations by optimizing planning, budgeting, revenue forecasting, spending, financial consolidations, and measuring and monitoring performance consistently. The complete suite of products shares a unified data model that allows you to establish a single repository of information where users can quickly access consistent information related to both financial and management reporting. Host Analytics CPM Suite allows you to move easily between reporting the past and projecting the future.
Host CPM is comprised of these modules:
- Host Budget provides connected and streamlined budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, which eliminates the errors and cumbersomeness of Excel.
- Host Analytics Revenue Planning is an integrated revenue, forecasting and budgeting application that supports detailed sales forecasts across thousands of customers and products and provides multiple methods for managing sales plans.
- Host Analytics Scorecard enables companies to encapsulate the strategic plan into a dynamic system and allows employees across the organization to continually monitor and measure progress against the strategic plan.
- Host Analyzer provides robust Host Analyzer reporting and analysis capabilities for employees across the organization, from sales and marketing to finance and operations.
- Host Consolidator speeds the process and manages the integrity of collecting, consolidating and reporting financial information on a global basis.
These features and functionality make it easy to adopt and use Host Analytics CPM quickly and effectively:
- An Excel-like interface within the browser lets users start to work right away with minimal training and eliminates the shortcomings of Excel as a planning tool.
- Software as a service delivery enables companies to implement Host CPM quickly without significant investments in hardware, software or consulting.
- A robust modeling environment offers both top-down and discrete modeling to create flexible rules and driver-based budgets.
- HR, capital planning, project-based planning, sales and operations planning (S&OP) and activity-based budgets are all standard features within Host Budget.