News Coverage

Gartner Says Applix Purchase will Bolster Cognos' Offering
September, 2007—Cognos' proposed acquisition will strengthen Cognos' business performance management (BPM) and business intelligence (BI) offering with stronger OLAP technology and more robust choices. Complete Article»

Cumberland Packing Turns to Applix TM1 for Efficient, Healthy Business Intelligence Analysis and Reporting
June, 2006—Cumberland Packing Corporation is a private, family owned company with a long track record of innovation and safety. The company was the first to package sugar in packets, and is the inventor, manufacturer and marketer of Sweet’N Low® Zero Calorie Sweetener. Consumers’ changing dietary trends and food fads require us to make quick decisions, and these evaluations need to be fueled by detailed information.  We wanted to understand the impact of buying fluctuations and patterns and changes to the competitive landscape. Additionally, a great deal of operating information was trapped in our enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, and analysis and reporting on that information was extremely difficult. Complete Article»

Software Firm Founder Translates Accounting Fluency into Success
February, 2006—Kenneth Wolf, CEO and co-founder of Revelwood is interviewed by The Daily Record. Complete Article»

Media Planning Group Plans on Success with Applix TM1 for Profitability Analytics
February, 2006—Media Planning Group, LLC (MPG) is a full-service media and marketing communications planning and buying agency. MPG handles the media buying activities for advertising agencies in the Havas network of worldwide agencies, as well as for unaffiliated clients. Professional services firms – from law firms to media firms – are faced with a very different profitability challenge than product manufacturing businesses. Since labor is their service, understanding the true finances – and profitability – of the business is a very complex activity. MPG needed a much more sophisticated view of finances rather than “money in is greater than money out.” Complete Article»

Occidental Oil and Gas Drills into BI and BPM for Cost Savings and Efficiencies
March, 2005—Occidental Petroleum Corporation is a world leader in oil and natural gas exploration and production, and a major North American chemical manufacturer. Like many growing businesses, Occidental has expanded its resources and opportunities through mergers and acquisitions. Some of our financial team members had previous experience with TM1 and recommended it to help manage and consolidate the new acquisitions. Complete Article»

GAF Materials Corporation Makes Smarter Business Decisions Faster with Applix and Revelwood
August, 2004—GAF Materials Corporation (GAFMC) is North America's largest roofing manufacturer, with more than $1.6 billion in annual sales. With more than 25 locations across the country, GAFMC had a massive amount of data stored in disparate sales, operations and financial planning systems. The company needed a better way to get data out of its systems, integrate it and make smarter business decisions faster. Complete Article»

Woodbridge Group Grows with Business Performance Management Tools
February, 2004—The Woodbridge Group, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, is a leading manufacturer of automotive urethane technologies and a specialist in just-in-time assembly and sequencing systems. With more than 59 facilities in 53 cities in 15 countries, the Woodbridge Group needed help to reduce the labor intensive process of collecting information from multiple plants, track costing information, automate the data retrieval process, perform financial consolidations across multiple dimensions and perform ad hoc reporting. Complete Article»

Viacom Discovers What's Behind the Numbers with Applix's TM1 and Revelwood FCS
October, 2003—Over the past 10 years, Viacom grew rapidly through acquisitions. In order to make timely and strategic decisions, we needed to connect the myriad financial systems in the acquired companies. Collecting information outside of the general ledgers became a significant challenge. Viacom divisions would run reports out of the legacy financial systems and fax hard copies to corporate headquarters where data was manually entered into Excel-based templates. Financial analysts at headquarters would manually compare spreadsheets to ensure accuracy. This process reduced the amount of time spent on analysis and decision making based on the data. Complete Article»

Primedia Makes Business Decisions Faster with Applix's TM1
July, 2003—Since its founding in 1989, Primedia has grown its Consumer Media & Magazine Group through acquisition. Over the years, the division grew from 20 media outlets to the 150 media outlets it has today. Keeping track of the financial information ­ not to mention the circulation, manufacturing and distribution information ­ from multiple groups in three separate locations is an enormous task. There is no way it can be done with simple spreadsheets; only an OLAP engine would be able to gather and aggregate the data within the time parameters dictated by the competitive publishing industry. Complete Article»

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