PROS Holdings is a software vendor with two distinct but related sets of products. The company began in 1985 offering revenue management software to airlines, hospitality and rental car companies. More recently it added price and revenue management software focusing on B2B services, chemicals and energy, consumer goods manufacturers, food and beverage, healthcare, insurance and technology. This note focuses on the B2B portion of the business.
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Topics: Analytics, Big Data, Data Preparation, Customer Experience, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Commerce, Pricing and Promotion Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Sales, Sales Enablement and Execution, Sales Performance Management
Pricing is an issue that almost every for-profit company confronts – and usually agonizes over. Organizations’ approach to pricing can range from centralized to decentralized and from highly disciplined to lax. Whether pricing is best handled in a centralized or decentralized fashion depends a great deal on the markets the company is serving as well as its organizational structure and culture. However specific pricing policies are established, though, a disciplined approach to price setting and negotiation is always superior to an ad-hoc process. Discipline is key to preventing margin “leakage” caused by unnecessary price concessions. Configure, price and quote (CPQ) software is a critical component in any leakage-prevention strategy.
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Topics: Price and Revenue Management, Office of Finance, Financial Performance Management, Enterprise Resource Planning
Prophix – Financial Performance Management for Midsize Organizations
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Robert Kugel on Dec 12, 2017 5:47:08 AM
Prophix is an established provider of financial performance management (FPM) software for planning and budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting, and managing the financial close and consolidation process. Its eponymous software is designed specifically for midsize companies or midsize divisions of larger corporations. These organizations are a distinctive segment of the market in that they have almost all the functional requirements of large enterprises but have fewer resources to apply to these critical tasks. Fortunately, the evolution of information technology over the past decade has been especially beneficial to midsize customers, bringing them expanded capabilities, substantially better performance and greater automation of routine tasks at an affordable total cost of ownership.
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Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Collaboration, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, Financial Performance Management, Price and Revenue Management, Work and Resource Management, Sales Planning and Analytics, Budgeting, Planning, Integrated Business Planning, Consolidation, accounting close, Reporting
Longview Solidifies Tidemark for Cloud-Based Planning
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Robert Kugel on Jul 10, 2017 6:43:42 AM
Longview recently completed the acquisition of Tidemark Systems, a planning software vendor. Longview Plan powered by Tidemark is a suite of cloud-based applications that enable corporations to plan, assess performance and communicate results more effectively. The software facilitates what Ventana Research calls “continuous planning.” This is a highly collaborative, action-oriented approach to planning that relies on frequent, short cycles to rapidly create and update integrated company-wide operational and financial plans. This structural approach makes it easy for individual business functions to create their own plans while enabling headquarters to connect those plans to create a unified view. Viewed in the long term, this acquisition provides Longview with a platform that will enable it to apply its existing on-premises intellectual property to a broader suite of web-based performance management and tax applications.
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Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Mobile, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Recurring Revenue, Price and Revenue Management, Sales Planning and Analytics
Ventana Research defines financial performance management (FPM) as the process of addressing the often overlapping people, process, information and technology issues that affect how well finance departments operate and support the activities of the rest of their organization. FPM deals with the full cycle of finance department activities, which include planning and budgeting, analysis, assessment and review, closing and consolidation, internal financial reporting and external financial reporting, as well as the underlying information technology systems that support them.
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Topics: Analytics, Business Intelligence, Mobile, Office of Finance, Continuous Planning, ERP and Continuous Accounting, Financial Performance Management, Recurring Revenue, Price and Revenue Management, Sales Planning and Analytics, Human Capital Management
