arcplan Webinars

arc|webinars provide actionable information that you can put to use in your organization right away. There's no fluff; just practical lessons learned from among our 3,000 clients. The programs below cover a wide range of topics for both IT and business audiences.

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Record Date File Title & Description
11/2/2011Beyond Excel for BI
This webinar presents the concrete ways that business intelligence software enhances reporting, analysis, and planning while taking advantage of Excel's best features. Learn more about Excel add-ins that embrace your power users while ensuring data integrity and security, reducing errors, and allowing data entry and write-back to the data source. See a demo of a financial briefing book application with 4 common reports and how they are accessible and interactive via an Excel-like interface.
Duration: 41 min.
7/21/2011How to Deploy Mobile BI Apps
This webinar is designed to help you design your company's mobile business intelligence strategy. We discuss how other companies have failed and show you how to succeed by focusing on what's important for users, for IT, and for the C-level. We also tell you exactly what to say to your IT department in order to get the go-ahead. This is a must-view for any company considering a mobile BI deployment.
Duration: 59 min.
6/1/2011How To Be An Analyst
This webinar sets you off on the right foot in your quest to master some of the most common data analysis techniques. We review sorting and ranking, comparative analysis, Pareto, and projection/regression and how to use each of these methods in  business intelligence scenarios you see on dashboards & scorecards.
Duration: 56 min.
01/27/2011A Roadmap for BI Cloud Computing
This webinar serves as a roadmap for implementing BI in the cloud that mitigates concerns about data security and confidentiality. This strategy allows BI consumers to manage large volumes of data securely at a low cost and with shortened implementation times.
Duration: 48 min.
12/09/2010Utilizing SharePoint for Business Intelligence
Whether you're just beginning to explore the possibilities of SharePoint, or you're a current arcplan customer looking to expand the pervasiveness of BI at your organization, this webinar provides the guidance you need to start your SharePoint-based BI project.
Duration: 1 hr 2 min.
11/18/2010Decision-Making 2.0: How Organizations Can Leverage 2.0 Technologies to Improve Decision-Making and Collaboration
This webinar identifies ways in which decision-making processes are being impacted by the rise of 2.0 tools and technologies and ways financial leaders can harness their power to improve decision-making. We provide an overview of 2.0 technological innovations for non-technical people and explain how leading organizations can embrace similar technologies and concepts in-house to improve collaboration and decision-making.
arc|webinar sponsored by Financial Executives International
Duration: 1 hr
11/03/2010Calculating ROI for Business Intelligence Projects
This webinar is a blueprint for calculating the ROI for your business intelligence project. We present ROI analysis as a simple-to-use methodology with Excel-based templates, and take you step by step through the tough questions to ask during the analysis. Case studies from several organizations are presented and common BI ROI justifications like "better reporting" are dissected from a true business value perspective. Email us afterward for a copy of the ROI spreadsheet!
Duration: 53 min.
10/20/2010Decision-Making 1.0: The Importance of High Quality Data and Rational, Objective Decision-Making Processes
To be most effective in the workplace, individuals and groups need high-quality inputs and sound decision-making processes. This webinar discusses decision-making biases, interpersonal and group dynamics that can reduce collaboration and misdirect collective thought processes, and strategies that leaders and their teams can employ to guard against these risks.
arc|webinar sponsored by Financial Executives International
Duration: 57 min.
08/18/2010More Dash & Less Bored: Five Ways to Build a Dashboard that Even the Pickiest Executives Will Love
Hear how some of the best performing companies have deployed dashboards to deliver decision-driving information to their management teams. Includes demos and examples.
Duration: 47 min.
07/15/2010Taking Control of Your Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Processes
This arc|webinar was presented jointly with our partner, Lancet. Learn about how small- to medium-sized businesses can overcome common BP&F challenges and implement best practices to add value to their processes. See how arcplan Edge automates the BP&F process and is easy and affordable for SMBs.
Duration: 44 min.
10/21/2009Run Your Business with SAP. Ensure Successful Reporting with arcplan
Find out how arcplan, the leading third-party front end to SAP, is used by companies worldwide to create powerful analytics applications that are deeply integrated with the SAP product line and also leverage other applications and data sources.
Duration: 45 min.
09/17/2009CFO Empowerment through Budgeting, Planning and Performance Dashboards
Learn how three companies overcame process
inefficiency and closed information gaps,
empowering the finance team and transforming the organization.
arc|webinar sponsored by Financial Executives International
Duration: 50 min.
06/16/2009Graham Packaging Quality Dashboard and Supplier Scorecard Improves Supply Chain Performance and Saves Money
Join Eric Glenn, Graham Packaging's SAP Analyst and Tara Holloway, Graham Packaging's Manager of Global Supplier Quality as they share how they deployed a supply chain management solution on top of SAP and delivered critical information to QA teams, plant managers, supply chain quality managers and executives that improved quality and reduced costs.
Duration: 42 min.
12/03/2008From Financial Reporting to Decision-Enabling Business Performance Management
Join Turner Broadcasting Systems’ VP Robert Copenhaver to learn how this global media giant overhauled financial analysis and reporting across the organization and unified decision-driving information and analysis in one application.
arc|webinar sponsored by Financial Executives International
Duration: 53 min.
01/17/2008


Can 100% CAGR and Attention to Financial Process Control Coexist?
A Harvard Business Review study reported that companies that measure the effect of operational performance on financial performance had greater than 3% difference in return on assets compared to companies that don’t. Join FEI member Howard Smith, long-time performance management advocate as he describes how he implemented a performance management solution to control and manage the company’s growth through, which was topping 100% CAGR.
arc|webinar sponsored by Financial Executives International
Duration: 1:00 h.