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Tidemark Releases the First Fully Immersed Financial Planning and Analysis Experience in Microsoft® Office and Office 365 Designed for the Modern ModelerREDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 7, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Tidemark, maker of modern cloud business planning and enterprise analytics apps, today announced the release of the Tidemark Excel App for Microsoft Office, the industry's first fully immersed financial planning and analysis (FP&A) experience designed for the modern modeler. New bi-directional unification improves the efficiency and workflow of FP&A professionals by allowing them to freely model in Office and Office 365 spreadsheets while bolstering data control, scalability and security through the Tidemark platform without additional costs. FP&A teams also improve their investments in Office and Office 365 while gaining the benefits that modern modelers expect from Tidemark such as collaboration, mobile delivery and visualization. In the new Blue Hill Research report "Excel and Modern Financial Planning: Unifying Spreadsheets and Centralized Performance Management" research shows, "the modern modeler is looking for the best of both worlds to support both the individualized flexibility associated with spreadsheets while supporting the advanced visualization, storyboarding, and reporting capabilities increasingly associated with today's enterprise performance management expectations that include up-to-date financial analysis, strong data visualization and presentation capabilities, and the relevant, contextualized data appropriate for understanding specific business contexts." "We are incredibly excited to be leveraging an EPM technology with a modern approach to connectivity between the cloud based performance management environment and Microsoft Office instead of simply linking or airlifting Excel into thei system's user interface," said Chris Garber, VP of FP&A of Acxiom. "The ability to automatically write-back into the Tidemark platform will eliminate countless hours of lost time and potential errors from exporting and uploading spreadsheet data. The seamless user experience is a great example of the compromise-free, transformative innovation we have come to expect from Tidemark." The new unification between Tidemark and Office -- available immediately and at no extra cost to Tidemark customers -- was designed to help users model and analyze the way they're used to, but ensure their formulas are no longer trapped in disparate, static spreadsheets separated from their performance management environment. The modern modeler can:
"When we plan out our product development roadmap, we work very closely with our customers to ensure we're meeting their needs and offering up solutions that allow them to completely re-imagine outdated processes derived from older systems," said Christian Gheorghe, Founder and CEO of Tidemark. "We're thankful to work with Microsoft to provide the power of both companies as we help enterprises create a new way of operating in FP&A built on efficiency, productivity and choice. Our goal is to do for Excel what Evernote did for sticky notes." For a complimentary copy of Blue Hill Research's "Excel and Modern Financial Planning: Unifying Spreadsheets and Centralized Performance Management"report click here. In addition, see our new video discussing the value of the Tidemark Excel App for Microsoft Office. About Tidemark About Microsoft's Apps for Office
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