XLerant

Flat Chance
As companies keep IT spending in check, executives have to make some hard choices about what they can live without.

XLerant's BudgetPak named Editor’s Choice
Accounting-Payroll-Software.Org identifies top budgeting and planning software

Cummins Northwest Signs with XLerant, Inc.

Russell Sigler Signs with XLerant, Inc.

Quinnipiac University Signs with XLerant, Inc.

UBM Global Trade Signs with XLerant, Inc.

Colleges find creative ways to save money

XLerant's 2009 User Survey results for BudgetPak

Best Practices – Self Service Budgeting

It's all about building accountability and ownership of the numbers.

7 Steps to a Better Budget

Find out how you can improve your budget process, shorten the cycle time, and win over your internal customers.

To Forecast Or Not To Forecast?

Beware firms that refuse to issue annual financial targets

Up & Away

Companies are feeling less trapped by spreadsheets these days

Craig Schiff, co-founder of OutlookSoft, gives his take on XLerant.

"There needs to be ownership and accountability for budgets and plans up and down the entire organization — real fiscal discipline. XLerant's BudgetPak is truly unique in its ability to support a process that will make that happen."

Jim Perakis
Former CEO, Hyperion

"XLerant's BudgetPak provides a unique, plain English user interface that's much more user friendly than Excel; and could be important to companies looking for greater participation in the process and increased ownership of the budget by front line managers."

Craig Schiff
CEO, BPM Partners

"SMSC picked BudgetPak over other applications we looked at because of its intuitive interface, power, and fast implementation. Using BudgetPak saved us considerable time we used to spend consolidating and reporting out of Excel."

David Smith
CFO, Standard Microsystems

"I was very impressed with the depth of functionality in the product and the new UI enhancements are exactly what I was hoping for."

Paul Hamerman
Vice President,
Forrester Research, Inc.

"We are happy to be an early adopter of BudgetPak, because we see the potential to help our non financial managers get through the budgeting cycle easier, faster and with better results. There is really nothing else like it out there."

William Feher
Controller, EMCOR

"We looked at a lot of planning applications, and they all looked like common spreadsheet applications except for BudgetPak. We also loved the project budgeting capability, it’s easy to earmark spending and it makes for better budget reviews."

Jill Larsen
CFO, BGCT

"It's so intuitive and easy to use! It makes sense! You guys have done a terrific job of putting together a really robust, easy to use tool. Some of the other vendors we spoke with just didn't get that our budget managers are not all Excel experts."

David Lyons
Director, IT, BGCT

"First of all, thank you for the great new software! This is so much easier than last year. Kudos!"

Tim Randolph
Strategist Team Leader, BGCT

"With BudgetPak I was finally able to throw away my spreadsheets. Now I can do all my IT project budgeting in one place."

CIO, Fortune 500 Company

"We cut our budget cycle time in half and got better budget decisions in the end."

SVP, Human Resources,
Fortune 500 Company