Alight Partners with Proformative to Address Agile Planning in 2012
Alight LLC, developers of Alight Planning financial planning software and the Planning Maturity Curve, today announced a strategic alliance with Proformative, the resource for corporate finance, accounting, and treasury. Proformative members will have expanded access to Alight’s resources in 2012 including best practices for Agile Planning™ which is quickly becoming the most important activity for Finance teams in the 21st century.
“I am delighted with our initial exposure through Proformative in 2011,” said Rand Heer, Alight’s CEO. “It’s great to see a free resource for finance executives become so valuable so quickly. When I worked with the original Pillar team that created the first enterprise planning solution to replace spreadsheets, I knew we were at the forefront of innovation. When I was working in the trenches as a finance professional, I saw a huge hole and created Pillar to fill it. While online communities are popping up everywhere these days, John Kogan and his team have strong roots in finance, and it appears Proformative is filling a hole as well.”
Alight will provide Proformative members with dozens of free resources including the latest analysis on The Planning Maturity Curve and Agile Planning, a methodology that maximizes business value while significantly reducing the level of management effort devoted to planning activities. The partnership enables Alight to sponsor its first Proformative webinar. Best of all, Proformative members will be eligible for special offers including VIP passes to Alight-sponsored budgeting and forecasting events in 2012.
“As a former CFO myself, I am pleased to be partnering with the team that started the budgeting and planning software movement back in the days of Pillar,” said John Kogan, CEO of Proformative. “Proformative members are sure to benefit from the free content and resources provided by Rand Heer and the Alight team. I am confident that this is the beginning of many benefits this partnership will bring our membership as they continue to seek out innovative tools and technologies that improve their companies’ decision making.”
“The whole philosophy at Proformative resonates with finance professionals who are deploying Alight to enable better planning and move off spreadsheets,” notes Ben Lamorte, VP Marketing at Alight. “For example, our customers and prospects recognize that testimonials and video clips hosted on software vendor websites are highly edited and likely biased. Traditionally, our customers and prospects seek out third party reviews on sites like Capterra. We expect to see more finance professionals share their experiences with Alight and other solutions in 2012 using Proformative’s new reviews program. Proformative may become the best platform for finance professionals to share both the strengths and weaknesses of solutions they've implemented."
In addition to Proformative, Alight’s thought leadership content on the Planning Maturity Curve and Agile Planning has been featured in: Marcus Evans CFO Summits, IE Group, ASMI, AICPA, HFMA, NACUBO, and the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
About Proformative
Founded in 2009 in Silicon Valley, California, Proformative (http://www.proformative.com) is a resource and community dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of corporate finance, accounting, treasury and related professionals. Proformative’s members find free resources and a community of their peers that enable them to learn and get work done. Proformative is community-driven and delivers a productive, ‘noise-free’ environment for its members.
About Alight LLC
Alight LLC’s Alight Planning is a true driver-based financial planning and reporting software package that automates complex business modeling for more accurate strategic plans, revenue projections, budgets and rolling forecasts. Its unique architectures and easy-to-use interfaces provide finance staff the power they need to build complex driver-based planning models, while delivering traditional budgeting and planning structures such as line item detail, integrated financial statements and multiple-user security. Cost-effective and IT-independent, Alight Planning is affordable and easily deployed by Fortune 500 business units, as well as midmarket companies with limited IT resources. Alight has over 250 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Pennsylvania State University, British Telecommunications, Pittsburgh Mercy Health, the Swan and Dolphin Resort at Disney World and Verizon Wireless. For more information about Alight Planning, visit www.AlightPlanning.com or call 800-960-7717.
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