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Host Analytics Furthers Enterprise Performance Management Leadership Position with Powerful New Modeling and Dashboard CapabilitiesREDWOOD CITY, Calif., Nov. 28, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Host Analytics, the leading provider of scalable, cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, today unveiled Fall17 – the latest release of its award-winning technology for financial planning, modeling, consolidation, and reporting. Host Analytics Fall17 features the powerful new Model Manager; Host Dashboards module; enhancements to reporting, planning, and consolidation functionalities; and updates to Online Help. With an eye on innovation, Fall17 continues to link financial and operational planning for improved organizational and strategic alignment.
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at //www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3483ac46-e1f4-416a-b6e5-ad9b4c62a821 The solution aligns financial plans with operational plans in areas of sales, marketing, and supply chain, for accurate, big-picture financial planning and analysis across the organization to drive peak performance. New modeling capabilities streamline future scenario analysis, while Host Dashboards supports delivery of real-time insights to the organization for better, faster decision making. “The need for businesses to understand strategic planning and modeling of future scenarios has never been more crucial,” said Ron Baden, chief product officer at Host Analytics. “This is driving a shift in EPM to provide new functionality to empower finance departments in becoming forward-looking business partners that capture and analyze data to assess opportunities and drive new value.” Model Manager Supports Strategic Planning with Ease for the Road Ahead Model Manager offers breakthrough ease of use that eliminates the need for IT involvement and custom scripting language. This dramatically reduces time and effort and enables line of business leaders to leverage modeling for a wide range of use cases, including sales bookings waterfall, marketing demand generation, professional services utilization, call center agent productivity, inventory depletion, and long-term plans. Through increased modeling adoption, organizations can unify and integrate operational models across the organization. "Model Manager will drive even higher adoption of Host Modeling in finance and across the business,” said Ian Vishnevsky, senior manager of FP&A at Machinima, Inc., a next-generation video entertainment and gaming network developer. “That's huge because it will help increase the speed and accuracy of our business models and allow them to be integrated into our financial plan.” Visualize Data with Self-Service Dashboards Online Help Offers Contextual Self-Service Guidance Reducing Complexity in Reporting and Planning and Shortening Cycle Time for Consolidation Fall17 features include a new CTA Proof Report and enhancements to Dynamic Journal Entries and Mass Currency uploads, which help reduce audit fees and reduce manual efforts to speed consolidation. A more intuitive user interface provides improved performance for offline users, and updated Subline Planning and Subline Validation make planning and forecasting alignment easier and faster than ever before. “We continue the drumbeat of innovation, enhancing every aspect of our product line,” said Dave Kellogg, CEO of Host Analytics. “Our Host Analytics flagship product continues to evolve, offering an improved experience for finance users as well as superior functionality to make the solution more intuitive and easy to use for line of business leaders with the understanding that EPM is not just for finance anymore.” About Host Analytics Host Analytics is the industry’s leading provider of scalable, cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions. Companies of all sizes, from $10 million startups to $50 billion multi-nationals, rely on Host Analytics to provide financial planning, budgeting, modeling, consolidations, and reporting. Host Analytics has 700 customers in 90 countries including Bose, Boston Red Sox, FitBit, La-Z-Boy, Mayo Clinic, NPR, OpenTable, Peet’s Coffee & Tea, Pinterest, Swissport, TOMS Shoes, and Vitamin Shoppe. Host Analytics is a private company backed by leading venture capitalists and is headquartered in Silicon Valley. For more information about Host Analytics, please visit www.hostanalytics.com. Read the Host Analytics Blog Contact: |