Rob Hull of Adaptive Planning to be BPM Summit Featured Speaker

Adaptive Planning CFO to Speak On Best Practices and Strategies At Business Performance Management: Finance Transformation Conference

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – November 8, 2007 — Rob Hull, Co-Founder, CFO and Vice President of Client Services for Adaptive Planning, will speak on key best practices and strategies for “Budgeting, Forecasting and Reporting Made Easy” at the 5 th Annual Fall BPM Summit, which is themed “The Finance Transformation,” and is sponsored by BPM Magazine. The conference will be held November 12-14 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Connecticut.

The presentation by Hull, which is relevant for anyone who is involved in the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes, will show how his company's software as a service (SaaS)-based solution is an effective, affordable and easily-implemented alternative to time-consuming and error-prone manual spreadsheet processes, and how Adaptive Planning trumps traditional BPM and BI software alternatives that are costly to implement and complex to use. He will show how transforming the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes can be done easily and extremely affordably, in a matter of weeks.

Hull will highlight real-world case studies on how leading mid-market companies and nonprofit organizations such as AAA, CollabNet, Jewish Family and Children's Services, Med-Eng, and SourceForge have been able to quickly move beyond Excel and decrease budgeting time by 70% while reducing errors; enable monthly re-forecasting; deeply involve business unit managers in planning and reporting; enable timely what-if analyses to support key decisions; and make finance a value-added, strategic function.

Hull will also discuss the new technologies that are transforming the planning process, making budgeting, forecasting and reporting easier than ever before.

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 .