Host Analytics Announces Summer 2014 Release Delivering Numerous Cloud Firsts in Automation, Reporting and Analytics, and Strategic Planning - Seite 2

Reporting and Analytics
The Summer 2014 Release offers a new CFO dashboard that provides an at-a-glance summary of key metrics, delivered via a combination of high-level charts, reports, and narratives. Key features include self-service business intelligence, 24 pixel-perfect chart types including new trellis charts that make it easy to compare several smaller charts, and interactive drill-down. CFOs can get key information and analysis on mission-critical areas like what-if scenarios, customer churn, and recurring revenue. The CFO Dashboard also provides analysis capabilities on bookings, revenue, headcount, customers, operations, billing and more. Host Analytics Business Analytics has also been enhanced so that users can now leverage hierarchical views of data and have access to drag-and-drop report selections, new aggregation options and expanded drill-down capabilities.

Dynamic Reports, the only report generator in the EPM market to seamlessly combine ad hoc and presentation-quality reporting, gained additional drill-down and drill-through options. Now, customers can more flexibly navigate reports that contain custom rollups, for example grouping "New Stores" and "Existing Stores" in the report with the ability to drill to any level. These options provide quick insights into the details that any enterprise requires to manage performance. 

Strategic Planning
Host Analytics' new Time Sets feature makes it easier for organizations to conduct strategic planning over longer time horizons. Rather than inputting data like forecasted revenue or operational expenses in monthly time-spans, customers can input data in quarterly and yearly time frames as they look further into the future. Host Analytics customers can now more easily create multi-year plans that use a monthly time set for the first year, quarterly for the next two years and annually for the remaining years. The new release also allows customers to re-use time sets across a variety of models.

"We are impressed with all the new features in the Summer 2014 Release and looking forward to exploring the CFO Dashboard," said Rick Odom, Senior Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis at Welch Allyn. "Seeing revenue on a map of the world will help our business partners get quick answers. We're also going to use the new Time Sets feature to input at the quarterly level for the out months of our 18 month rolling forecasts. Since we re-forecast quarterly, this will save us time."

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About Host Analytics
Host Analytics is the leader in cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM), offering a suite of financial applications for planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics. Host Analytics customers benefit from improved business agility, faster execution of core financial processes, and lower overall cost compared to legacy on-premises alternatives. World-class companies like NEC, Burlington Coat Factory, and Sanmina trust Host Analytics to power their strategic financial systems. Host Analytics is a fast-growing, private company backed by leading venture capitalists and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices around the globe.

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