Alight to Present at ASMI Budgeting and Forecasting Conference

Alight LLC, developers of the industry-leading Alight Planning financial planning and reporting software, today announced that Ben Lamorte, Alight Vice President of Business Development, will address the challenges and application solutions for implementing rolling forecasts as the lead sponsor at the “Budgeting and Forecasting 2010” conference sponsored by the American Strategic Management Institute (ASMI). The conference will run June 14-16, 2010 in Boston. Lamorte speaks on June 14th.

“Budgeting software is designed to save time and reduce errors, but the action and excitement right now is in the forecasting and planning piece,” Lamorte said. “This presentation will be a highly educational session focusing on core processes involved in generating rolling forecasts, including scenario analysis and driver-based planning. Most importantly, we will distinguish between budgeting and forecasting and how better forecasting can improve decision making and profitability.”

“Building off a very successful ASMI event in San Diego, we are pleased to be the lead sponsor for the Boston event”, says Lamorte, who has previously co-presented at an ASMI event with Larry Van Kuran of Kaiser Permanente on the topic of driver-based planning. Lamorte will employ his experience with customers and prospects along with current forecasting theory and best practices, to highlight two critical requirements for effective rolling forecasts:

• Scenario analysis for establishing “what if” scenarios and exploring alternative decisions or actions in real time to understand possible outcomes.
• Driver-based planning where financial forecasts are driven by operational assumptions about the business.

For a live demo of Alight Enterprise, or for more information about Alight’s budgeting, reporting and forecasting solutions, visit www.alightplanning.com.

For more information about the ASMI conference visit www.ASMIweb.com/Forecast or contact Paul Rogers at (858) 737-4122.

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 175 customers including Kaiser Permanente, Pittsburgh Mercy, 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.