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Planning for Growth: How FORTUNE’s Fastest-Growing Company Harnessed the Cloud for Corporate Agility

Named by FORTUNE magazine as 2013’s fastest-growing company, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a specialty biopharmaceutical company with a product portfolio that includes the highly successful XYREM®, a medication used to treat symptoms associated with narcolepsy.

Find out how Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ implementation of a cloud-based EPM suite has enabled it to achieve rapid growth and multiple acquisitions without putting undue strain on its financial team or compromising its data analysis capabilities.

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Battle-Tested Best Practices in Planning and Budgeting Parts 1&2

As a finance executive, you make critical decisions that affect the company “mission” at hand, regardless of the uncertainty each day will bring. Your challenge is to build a framework for action that brings order to chaos and drives your company to success. This white paper covers the three tenants of planning and six steps to improve the planning and budgeting processes. In part two, Chris Lozano, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps delves into each of the six steps to support improved planning, how to budget to the plan, and measuring performance metrics along the way.

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Best Practices in Rolling Forecasts

Any strategy relies on assumptions. And assumptions come from a forecast. “How many orders in the next twelve months?”, “How will changes in this line item affect the results in that one?”, “What will things look like in a quarter? Two quarters? A year?” And so on.

The best route to precise forecasting is, hands down, the rolling forecast. This white paper discusses the ten best practices for creating a strong rolling forecast, including how to construct it, how to connect it with both strategy and operations, and how to use it as a powerful planning and management tool.

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Featured Tech / IT Operations

Planning for Growth: How FORTUNE’s Fastest-Growing Company Harnessed the Cloud for Corporate Agility

Named by FORTUNE magazine as 2013’s fastest-growing company, Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a specialty biopharmaceutical company with a product portfolio that includes the highly successful XYREM®, a medication used to treat symptoms associated with narcolepsy.

Find out how Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ implementation of a cloud-based EPM suite has enabled it to achieve rapid growth and multiple acquisitions without putting undue strain on its financial team or compromising its data analysis capabilities.

Request Free!
Featured Tech / IT Operations

Battle-Tested Best Practices in Planning and Budgeting Parts 1&2

As a finance executive, you make critical decisions that affect the company “mission” at hand, regardless of the uncertainty each day will bring. Your challenge is to build a framework for action that brings order to chaos and drives your company to success. This white paper covers the three tenants of planning and six steps to improve the planning and budgeting processes. In part two, Chris Lozano, a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Corps delves into each of the six steps to support improved planning, how to budget to the plan, and measuring performance metrics along the way.

Request Free!
Featured Tech / IT Operations

Best Practices in Rolling Forecasts

Any strategy relies on assumptions. And assumptions come from a forecast. “How many orders in the next twelve months?”, “How will changes in this line item affect the results in that one?”, “What will things look like in a quarter? Two quarters? A year?” And so on.

The best route to precise forecasting is, hands down, the rolling forecast. This white paper discusses the ten best practices for creating a strong rolling forecast, including how to construct it, how to connect it with both strategy and operations, and how to use it as a powerful planning and management tool.

Download this white paper to learn more.

Request Free!