Here’s how Santa deals with Christmas stress

So just how does Santa manage to deliver all his presents by Christmas Eve? Well, the answer lies in his planning. Here’s how Santa plans his Christmas run: He follows a solid planning process A few years ago, Santa was in a real slump. The effects of global warming affected his regular delivery route, and […]

Prepare for the worst: 7 keys to dealing with business downturns

In the 3rd installment of Apliqo’ webinar series, Jack Alexander walks us through the inevitable nature of business downturns, how to prepare for them and minimize their impact on your business. Be realistic: business downturns are inevitable “In FP&A, the first thing we have to do is recognize that economic cycles are cyclical,” says Jack. […]

Apliqo Insights: London FP&A Board Meeting 2019

Last week’s meeting focused on FP&A storytelling and the added value it can bring to organizations for the first time in FP&A Board Meeting history. The meeting began with a general introduction in which the participants shared their views on the key factors for effective FP&A storytelling. The results are summarized below: Life Timely Data/Analytics […]

5 Budgeting and planning best practices every business needs, with Jack Alexander

In the second installment of Apliqo’s new webinar series, our guest speaker Jack Alexander walks you through how to step up your budgeting and planning processes. The problem with traditional budgeting “Traditional planning models have a strong financial focus,” says Jack. “The big problem with this is that most managers see these plans as finance […]

Apliqo Insights: Frankfurt FP&A Board meeting 2019

This week’s meeting focused on FP&A Business Partnering and the key criteria companies need to focus on to establish a proper Business Partnering Team. The meeting began with a general introduction in which the participants shared their own personal experiences with Business Partnering and the best attribute the participants have ever seen of a Business […]

Apliqo UX at Perfection Fresh

An eco-system between these models have been intricately designed with Apliqo UX as the web interface to distribute the model to the wider community. Leslie Bogdan and Jennifer Yang from Perfection Fresh presented their experience implementing Apliqo UX at the Cubewise EDU TM1 and Planning Analytics User Conference in Sydney 2019 and also shared their […]

3 tips to increase your FP&A efficiency, with Jack Alexander

In his presentation, Jack showed us how to effectively evaluate both our finance processes and the talent in our team to meet the demands of the changing FP&A environment. Below, we’ll share 3 of Jack’s top tips based on his 40+ years of experience. For more details on how to improve your FP&A processes, make […]

Apliqo Insights: Paris FP&A Board meeting 2019

Last week’s meeting focused on Rolling Forecasts and 7 factors for businesses to implement them successfully. The meeting began with a general introduction in which the participants shared their own personal experiences with Rolling Forecasts. The results of the introduction are summarized below: RFC Implemented and great experience 5 % Implemented with many challenges 25 […]

Apliqo UX 2.4 Webinar — check what’s new on this release

Apliqo UX is a modern, web based TM1 interface that can help you stop crunching numbers and start driving value for your business. As we released version 2.4 of Apliqo UX, on October 15th (Europe, US East Coast) and October 16th (Australia, PanAsia, US West Coast), join our free webinar and learn how you can: Make […]

Apliqo UX and Cubewise Canvas for TM1 to be offered as a single product

Apliqo UX and Canvas for TM1 have been combined to a single product which will be known as Apliqo UX. Future releases of Apliqo UX will contain all features and functionality of both products. Apliqo UX improves the adoption rate and user acceptance of any application built on IBM Planning Analytics. The user-friendly web interface combines guided […]