EPM News of 15 February 2025
AdvoCare Partners with Board for a New Era of Planning in Health and Wellness.
AdvoCare, a family-owned company specialising in health and wellness since 1993, has selected the Board platform to strengthen its cross-functional planning capabilities. With this solution, AdvoCare will be able to improve the efficiency of its processes and meet new performance challenges. Committed to helping its customers feel better and optimise their well-being, AdvoCare is leveraging innovation to support their health journey. The integration of Board is part of this approach, providing advanced tools for more agile and strategic management.
Doctolib enhances its healthcare planning strategy with Anaplan.
Doctolib, a leader in digital healthcare services in Europe, has selected the Anaplan platform to strengthen its financial planning and improve resource management. This collaboration aims to optimise financial forecasting, workforce planning and real-time analysis of company performance. With Anaplan, Doctolib will benefit from an advanced simulation engine, making it easier to anticipate economic and operational scenarios. The integration of this solution will enable better cost management, efficient resource allocation and more responsive decision-making in response to developments in the sector.
Vena Solutions Winter '25 unveils its new features.
Vena's Winter '25 release introduces several new features designed to improve productivity and deliver self-service analytics capabilities. Key highlights include:
- Drill-through capabilities in Vena Ad Hoc (open beta): Vena's new Ad Hoc reporting tool now includes writeback and drill-through transaction capabilities. These features make it possible to explore data in greater depth to understand the origin of certain values, identify individual contributions and analyse previous values. This facilitates detailed analysis of the data model.
- Template Studio (open beta): This new tool enables the rapid creation of standardised financial templates tailored to specific needs. Users can choose from a library of pre-built templates, already mapped to the data model, to begin planning and reporting without delay.
- Vena Copilot for Ad Hoc report generation (closed beta): Vena Copilot, the comprehensive AI-powered planning assistant, can now create Ad Hoc reports on demand. By submitting a natural-language request, Copilot intelligently generates the relevant report, configures the required mappings and automatically refreshes the data, thereby accelerating the analysis process.
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TRADE SHOWS / EVENTS
- 20 February 2025: Jedox - Melbourne CFO Symposium 2025: Vision 2025 > 2030 The event focuses on financial leadership in the face of future challenges, with an emphasis on climate, technology and geopolitical issues. The gathering will offer strategies and tools to help CFOs navigate an ever-changing environment and seize long-term opportunities. Jedox will showcase its innovative solutions to support finance leaders in transforming their organisations.
- 26-28 February 2025: CCH Tagetik - NAFES 2025: An Immersion into the Future of Finance in Tampa CCH Tagetik will be at NAFES 2025, one of the flagship events in the finance sector, taking place from 26 to 28 February 2025 in Tampa, Florida. Participants will have the opportunity to discover cutting-edge financial technologies, gain exclusive insights through discussions with experts and test innovative solutions that will revolutionise the way they work. This gathering will be a unique opportunity for finance professionals to push the boundaries of digital transformation and prepare for future challenges.
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WEBINARS
- 20 February 2025: Planful - AI for Finance Teams: Perspectives and Challenges Join Sanjay Vyas, Planful's Chief Technology Officer, and Carl Seidman, an FP&A expert, on 20 February for an in-depth discussion on the future of AI in finance. During this session, they will cover key topics such as generative AI, signal detection with Planful AI Detect, as well as data security and compliance in an AI-driven environment. Discover how these technologies are transforming FP&A and accounting, and how automation is evolving beyond traditional systems.
- 20 February 2025: Jedox - More Efficient Planning through Hyperautomation and AI Discover with Jedox how hyperautomation, combined with technologies such as AI and tools such as ChatGPT, is transforming the management of planning processes by enabling extensive automation and faster decision-making. This evolution not only reduces manual effort but also improves collaboration and efficiency through intelligent tools integrating real-time data.
- 20 February 2025: Board - Accelerate Your Financial Consolidation Process with Board In an upcoming webinar, Board will unveil its new features for accelerating monthly close cycles and transforming financial consolidation. By integrating planning and consolidation, companies will be able to maximise their strategic impact and gain real-time financial insights. Participants will also discover how to easily define multiple scenarios and increase the speed of consolidation projects and processes.
- 26 February 2025: Board - Digital Transformation in Support of Procurement Planning The procurement planning webinar, organised by Board Enterprise Planning Platform, highlights how digitalisation can optimise this essential strategic process. Addressing topics such as budgeting, forecasting, sourcing initiative collection and capacity management, this event provides participants with a comprehensive view of the key steps for improving procurement efficiency
- 27 February 2025: PIGMENT - Pigment vs IBM Planning Analytics (TM1) – A Strategic Comparison On 27 February, Steve Taylor, Solutions Consultant at Pigment, will host a webinar comparing Pigment and IBM Planning Analytics (TM1). Through a live demonstration, this webinar will highlight the simplicity, speed of deployment and agility of the Pigment platform, which enables companies such as IDKids to transform their planning process. The event will highlight the advantages of Pigment, including its ability to reduce reliance on technical experts and improve collaboration.
