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Strategic Financial Planning

What is Strategic Financial Planning?

Strategic financial planning is the process of determining how a business manages itself financially to ensure it achieves its goals and objectives for both the short-term and long-term. Sound planning considers every aspect of a business' operations and the impact each has on the overall financial position of the company.

During an organization's planning cycle there will be models supporting different types of planning processes such as sales planning, head count planning, revenue and expense planning, and capital planning. These models are designed to collect data at the micro level. Integrated Financial Statements is the macro level model consolidating and analyzing the results of the micro-planning processes. At a corporate level, the results of the planning process should be validated against the strategic objectives of the corporation and provide predictability into the long-range plan.

While many companies rely on ERP systems and spreadsheets for their planning process, leading to errors and difficulty in arriving at consensus plans and budgets, high-performance companies replace the manual spreadsheet process with robust multidimensional modeling capabilities and integrated workflows to minimize error, maximize control, and boost accountability.

MindStream Analytics offers performance management solutions , support, and services that deliver world-leading enterprise planning and consolidation to help companies plan, understand and manage financial and operational performance. Finance can determine if corporate objectives are in synch with operational plans.

Contact us to learn more about eliminating the chaos of collecting, revising and approving budgets and forecasts by implementing solutions that allow strategic and controlled planning processes with the flexibility to adapt as your business changes.

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Case Studies

Accumen

Thanks to the intervention of MindStream Analytics, Accumen's Finance department can now model their business with a new, more organized structure that isn't conventionally available in NetSuite.

Acme Brick

Acme Brick turned to MindStream Analytics for help implementing OneStream to replace their outdated TM1 solution.

Alterra

Alterra sought the expertise of MindStream to address the challenges they faced in their Capital Planning process.

ATCO Group

Energy conglomerate ATCO operates worldwide in utilities, power generation, and related services.

Avalon

Working with MindStream Analytics, Avalon Healthcare Solutions adopts NetSuite Planning and Budgeting to accelerate budgeting and forecasting processes.

Bayer Health Care

Bayer Healthcare implemented Hyperion Planning and Workforce Planning in 10 weeks to dramatically streamline their Income Statement budget and Workforce Planning process..

BluEarth

MindStream Analytics' partnership with BluEarth Renewables epitomizes the power of technology and collaboration.

Celgene

An Oracle Hyperion Planning Upgrade provides multi-national organization Hyperion Application optimization and stabilization.

Cleaver Brooks

OneStream XF was chosen as the platform that would transform Cleaver-Brooks' Finance processes.

CoorsTek

The collaboration between CoorsTek and MindStream resulted in significant improvements in CoorsTek's financial consolidation and reporting processes.

Elite Body Sculpture

MindStream Analytics' collaboration with Elite Body Sculpture encapsulates the transformative potential of targeted tech solutions in streamlining administrative processes.

Enlyte

Enlyte, a merger of Mitchell, Genex, and Coventry, faced challenges with disparate financial solutions and the need for combined reporting.

Flanders

MindStream Analytics collaborated with Flanders to implement OneStream Consolidation and Reporting solution.

Foley Products

Foley Products was facing a significant challenge with its Excel-based actual management reporting system.

Harte Hanks

The collaboration between MindStream Analytics and Harte Hanks culminated in a highly customized, user-friendly NetSuite implementation.

Interface

Interface used a complex, manual, excel-based FP&A process for monthly review, and the summary data was loaded in OneStream.

Kymera International

Thanks to Mindstream Analytics' assistance, Kymera was able to load all of their data into OneStream and validate it successfully.

MacLean Fogg

MacLean-Fogg partnered with MindStream, a leading implementor specializing in modernizing and optimizing enterprise systems.

MEPPI

MindStream's expertise and experience were sought to conduct a vendor selection initiative focusing on MEPPI's F2023 planning process.

OUAI

MindStream Analytics and OUAI's collaboration showcases the transformative power of strategic technological intervention.

Plaskolite

By migrating to OneStream, Plaskolite has achieved a material reduction in consolidation time and overall Financial Close cycle, eliminated the hours spent compiling and verifying data in Excel, streamlined its Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting model and delivered flexible and timely reporting that enables more strategic analysis of their financial data.

Redwire

Understanding the nuances of Redwire's challenges, MindStream Analytics devised a holistic approach to overcome them. The implementation of NetSuite was just the beginning.

Simon

Simon's existing corporate Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) production application was consolidating at a rate of seven hours, a performance issue causing great headache to corporate Accounting.

Source Code

The successful transition to OneStream revolutionized Source Code's financial reporting.

Subway

Subway collaborated with MindStream Analytics for the NetSuite Analytics Warehouse implementation.

UPenn

MindStream Consulting and AppCare team members are proud be working side by side with UPenn university in accomplishing this implementation and along with continuing our AppCare services after go-live.

USG

USG was an Oracle Hyperion customer realizing that it needed more specialized support for its various Oracle Hyperion applications.

Vantiv

Dividing a hyperion planning application, expanding the hyperion footprint to forecast on the business? Customer categories.

Versant Health

Versant Health engaged MindStream to help resolve the challenges they were experiencing with their consolidation, close, and financial reporting processes.

Virginia Spaceport Authority

The MindStream team implemented the Standard + Workforce NetSuite Planning & Budgeting.

WeWork

MindStream Analytics determined that the best solution was to implement Oracle Essbase Cloud as part of the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) platform-as-a-service

WindStream

Innovative use of essbase to streamline and connect hyperion financial management for enhanced financial analysis.

XY Planning

MindStream Analytics, well-versed in addressing such challenges, presented a comprehensive Netsuite solution for XY Planning.