Alight Planning - Continuous Planning & Scenario Analysis

About Alight

Alight's vision is to redefine how companies plan. We do this by setting standards and best practices embodied in world-class planning and analysis software, white papers, training and solutions packages.

Alight's mission, simply stated, is to become the application of choice for desktop and collaborative financial planning and reporting.

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Customer Stories

Down East Enterprises:
Using Alight for Rolling Forecasts

"Alight allows us to plan differently, to plan continuously. The critical difference is that we're making much better decisions, and that's the bottom line."

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Pittsburgh Mercy:
Using Alight for Real Time Collaborative Planning

"The forecasts for each of the seven teams were updated and agreed to in real time — including tens of thousands of dollars in monthly performance improvements... Alight has let me implement a totally new culture for planning and analysis."

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Kaiser Permanente:
Using Alight for Long Range
Capital Planning

"The Alight implementation team got the job done on a fast track for half the price we were quoted from national firms... "

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Schoolwires:
Using Alight for Short & Long Range Planning

"I needed to move fast... so I actually built the Schoolwires Alight P&L model during the trial period before I bought the software!"

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Iroquois Gas
Transmission System:
Using Alight for Complex
Scenario Analysis

"With only 25 hours of Alight's help, together we built an extremely sophisticated model of our business..."

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Haws Corporation:
Using Alight for Budgets & Reporting

"It was easy getting into Alight. I connected with the Alight consultant. She had me up and rolling with only 20 hours of support."

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Open Learning Exchange:
Using Alight for Rapid Model Building

"The Alight modeling environment is amazing!... I'm motivated to keep going because I see results right away. The people who built Alight, they understand planning."

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Sales Team Live:
Using Alight to Analyze Strategy

"The smoothest part was the 'handoff'. With just two hours of online tutoring, I understood the financial model and was manipulating the underlying assumptions myself..."

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History

Rand Heer founded Alight in 2005.

Rand's love for financial models and business planning came together at Pillar Corporation, a software company he founded in 1988. Published in seven languages and sold worldwide, Pillar set the early standard for enterprise scale budgeting and planning software. Pillar was acquired by Hyperion Solutions.

After building a series of prototypes of Alight Planning, Rand hired a team of dedicated developers led by Lee Harris, the original VP of Engineering who assembled the Pillar team.

The business team, headed by Ben Lamorte and Don Koenes, began selling and installing Alight Planning in early 2006. Lisa Torbin-Shaw and Linda Hull also joined Alight in 2006, bringing huge product knowledge and customer experience from their work with Pillar and other products at Hyperion Solutions.

In January 2008, BPM Partners, a leading business performance management research and advisory firm, named Alight best new vendor for 2008. In BPM Partner's 2009 Pulse Survey of vendors in the business performance management space, Alight scored the highest of all vendors in customer satisfaction.

Alight currently has over 175 customers in a broad variety of industries using Alight Planning for budgeting, rolling forecasts, long range and strategic planning, project planning and a variety of other planning activities.

The Alight team continues to aggressively develop the software, improving performance and incorporating new features requested by our customers. The current products, Alight Enterprise and Alight Desktop, are the Version 5 release of Alight Planning which featured improvements to mutli-user functionality, integration of actuals, scenario analysis, and performance. The company issues product updates about every three months.

Alight's corporate headquarters are in Placerville, California near Sacramento. It has sales representatives and support staff in San Francisco and Boston. For more information, call (530) 622-5485 or (800) 960-7717.

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