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Business Officer Magazine
XLerant was recently featured in Business Officer Magazine in an article titled “Self Service Budgeting at Drew University”. The article does a wonderful job of highlighting the challenges Drew University experienced with Excel based budgeting, and how the University partnered with XLerant to address them.
Mass High Tech article "XLerant shifts chairman, CEO roles"
BPM Partners White Paper: Achieving Accountability in Mid-Market Budget Processes
A review of XLerant's BudgetPak from a prestigious third party source.
What We Know About Spreadsheet Errors
Flat Chance
As companies keep IT spending in check, executives have to make some hard choices about what they can live without.
Colleges find creative ways to save money
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
CFO Magazine - Buttonwood Group Survey on Budgeting Software Usability
Survey on the usability of budgeting and planning applications
Best Practices in Budgeting... And How to Deliver Them
SNL Video Short on Budgeting
This one is just for fun (you deserve a break). As off the wall as Saturday Night Live can be, this video short featuring Rainn Wilson (from The Office) is timeless.
Sloppy Spreadsheets: Readers Speak Out
Readers make some pointed additions to CFO.com's "worst practices" list.
Staying on Course
It's hard to weather an economic slowdown without a sound budget to steer by.
BPM Magazine: Why Front Ends Are Failing
Article explaining why Finance professionals love an Excel like interface for budgeting; while non-finance professionals don't.
CFO Magazine: Why is it still so hard to engage line managers in budgeting?
Article explaining why the Finance department is still having so much trouble getting willing participants in the budget process.
Planning to Win: The best way to predict the future is to create it
Form the Journal of Accountancy & Finance
