In case you aren't subscribed to arcplan's BI Blog, I wanted to call your attention to some great articles we've published lately. Let us know what you think!

• A New Way of Thinking...or Why Data Discovery Is Not the Only Path to BI Value Creation, by our CEO Roland Hölscher
   
• Event Recap: arc|forum France, by our Director of Strategic Alliances, Jan Panthel
   
• Essential Budgeting & Planning System Components - Part 1: Workflow, by our SVP Dwight deVera
• Part 2: Spreading
• Part 3:…

Today we announced that another SMB has chosen arcplan, proving that its ease of use and affordability make it a viable tool for small and large user bases alike. Med-IQ, a continuing medical education provider in Baltimore, Maryland, will be using arcplan as a front-end to its SQL Server database. The company was looking for a dashboard solution that's easy to learn and would enable users to be self-sufficient. Steve Koster, the company's Director of Technology, remarked, "arcplan's ease of…

Check out our CEO Roland Hölscher's thoughts on Apple's rumored iWatch, the forthcoming Google Glass, and what they mean for real-time analytics - and of course, how arcplan will make it easy to deploy BI on these wearable computing devices...

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Welcome to the arc|partner community, TESCHGlobal! They're the first of several North American partners to join as resellers. They plan to blend their business intelligence and enterprise integration expertise with arcplan technology to deliver solutions that help businesses measure and improve their performance.

"With our implementation experience and arcplan's BI software, we're continuing to grow into one of the world's strongest integration platform providers," said Will Tesch, President…

With thousands of BI implementations under our belts, we're chock full of advice for our customers. Check our our 2 latest pieces and let us know what you think!

The 4 Elements of a Perfect Planning Process >>
No, they're not earth, air, fire, and water...we think they're automation, linkage to corporate goals, rolling forecasts, and analytics. Why? Read on...

Five Reasons Why Many BI Projects Are Doomed to Fail >>
The top project management problems that plague BI and how to…

KPK faServ is arcplan's newest OEM partner. Based in Bangalore, India, KPK has expertise in financial accounting and auditing and understands how to connect BI to these processes. In addition to their list of services (system implementation, support services, data warehouse development, database integration, and graphical user interface and front-end design), soon KPK will be offering two pre-configured arcplan-powered cloud solutions:

• FinSotica: business intelligence reporting, balanced…

Dwight deVera, arcplan's Senior VP of Solutions Delivery, was interviewed recently by Forbes. This week, the feature piece was published and I thought arcplan customers and partners might like to check it out:

 arcplan Makes Chaos Comprehensible
With its promise to deliver order - or at least orderly reports - from the chaos of heterogeneous systems, and provide results including live data updates to mobile devices, arcplan has opportunity for continued growth. 

The article highlights…