您的企业业务计划是否足够前瞻性？
首席信息官们往往要求同时减少rationalize IT footprints and infrastructure while delivering greater value and insights as strategic business leaders. This is no small feat, especially if they inherited technology stacks from someone who moved on a decade ago. Their predecessors often made the mistake of investing their entire business planning strategy into standard ERP systems, not realizing what their decision meant from a cost, security, flexibility, and scalability standpoint or how it would affect their bargaining power in the future.
当涉及企业范围的计划时，许多CIOs开始在盒子外面思考。他们了解他们的组织现在需要什么，将来可能需要什么，以及可以用更具竞争力和现代的产品代替的。在某些情况下，向其他供应商的完全转移似乎是最好的答案，他们必须评估预计的难度和成本。最具前瞻性的CIO将其整个业务计划过程转移到了基于云的计划平台上，具有规模和安全性的好处，没有隐藏的成本。
The next step for CIOs: unifying corporate data under a single platform
为了利用技术创新的力量，而不损害其任何关键优先事项，精明CIOs need a platformthat brings data from anywhere in the company, analyzes and processes that data at a granular level, and connects the output as actionable plans for the right people at the right time. Such a system needs to be secure, flexible, scalable, forward-thinking, and continuously available.
A system should bring all of the corporate information together into one place—without keeping sharp firewalls up between sales and supply, for instance. Users can create plans across business functions, including finance, sales, human resources, and the supply chain without depending on IT or outside consultants to homogenize the data. Users can collaborate with each other to drive business success. This is called Connected Planning.
The false promise of traditional, disconnected planning systems
Large and standard-issue ERP systems are not able to provide this value. They claim to have an integrated suite, the best-in-class solution, and免费或低成本附加软件，但是在大多数情况下，这些主张比真理更接近神话。他们试图将许多计划应用程序拼接在一起，这些计划通常是通过众多公司合并来获得的，这些公司合并几乎没有共同的技术。每个都有自己的数据和元数据集成方法，自动化语言，计算语言和工作流程，创建了一个复杂而脱节的技术堆栈。仅需要一个管理员团队才能建立和维护这些联系。这些解决方案通常是为了适应公司套件的差距或为竞争带来答案，但是这些解决方案通常无法正如承诺的那样起作用，并且在安全性，灵活性和可扩展性方面可能会造成风险或失望。
使用点解决方案，ERP计划系统或通过电子表格和电子邮件收集和传播数据还可以创建隔离的计划视图，仅为单个功能或团队提供信息。它们还产生了许多数据提取物，这些数据是散散的，而不是与业务的其他领域相关的数据，并很快就过时了。
在这些情况下，除了信息筒仓外，从安全性和可管理性的角度来看，数据也很容易受到影响。业务数据通常是机密的。它可以包括工资，公司预算，销售佣金和其他机密信息。在断开的电子表格中存储和更新此信息，然后在电子邮件中共享或上传到不同的系统中具有巨大的安全风险。它还给它带来了一个负担，以提供治理和持续的支持，更不用说创造尺寸限制和稳定性了。
这些限制阻止了业务变得敏捷，因为它们根本无法处理业务数据的复杂维度。任何数据更新或更改数据都必须手动输入单独的系统，将其倾倒到各种电子表格中，并在可以传递或使用之前对其进行审核。当业务用户开始对他们的计划数据几乎没有信心和信任时，这将影响底线。当首席执行官开始抱怨时，这将成为CIO的头痛。
使情况变得更糟，ERP经销商将低成本或免费附加软件的神话—once they’ve sold you their service, there are all kinds of hidden costs. It would be easy to be convinced to purchase products and services that put your organization at risk, especially when it comes to cost and scalability.
All is not lost, there’s a solution
与此相反，Anaplan的互联亚博vip反水计划平台帮助您正面应对这些挑战，通过云通过云提供整个业务的高级计划技术。它与您的ERP系统结合使用或可以替换。Anaplan平台提供了一个强大的系统，该系统为增长准备（带有记录的ROI），可以随着您的组织扩大规模和市场份额而扩展。Anaplan将财务，公司和运营计划连接起来，将它们不断发展为动态模型，使您可以在一刻的通知中对变更做出响应。
使用Anaplansystem, planning becomes more collaborative and adaptable. Less time is spent untangling the mess of data, and more time is spent creating a future based on solid facts. This single Connected Planning platform can replace countless spreadsheets and point solutions, and encourages cross-functional aggregation of data, simplification of process, and even governance control.
了解更多，下载本文并发现Anaplan连接的计划平台如何使CIO成为战略亚博vip反水业务主管。与ERP，点解决方案和电子表格Galore不同的平台，可以消除不同的系统和流程。轻松地与您的企业范围内的计划计划相遇。
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