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Phocas secures 37 top rankings in BARC's 2023 BI + Analytics Survey

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October 31, 2022

The voice of the BI and analytics community has officially spoken following the release of The BI & Analytics Survey 23 by software selection and strategy experts, BARC last week.

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Phocas Products Now on Sage Intacct Marketplace

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October 10, 2022

Phocas Software helps Sage customers gain more insights from their business

Phocas Software, a business planning and analytics platform for sales, operations, and finance teams,..

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Phocas secures 37 top rankings in BARC's 2023 BI + Analytics Survey

3 MIN

September 14, 2022

The voice of the BI and analytics community has officially spoken following the release of The BI & Analytics Survey 23 by software selection and strategy experts, BARC last week.

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latest posts

Phocas Products Now on Sage Intacct Marketplace

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September 14, 2022

Phocas Software helps Sage customers gain more insights from their business

Phocas Software, a business planning and analytics platform for sales, operations, and finance teams,..

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bi basics finance sage financial statements data analytics erp budgeting and forecasting

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What is Driver Based Planning?

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September 14, 2022

The devil is always in the detail, especially when it’s budgeting time. When we’re in business planning mode we’re looking at what worked well and what didn’t, as well as..

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Why spreadsheet reporting is killing your business

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January 20, 2021

Microsoft Excel is frequently referred to as the number one business intelligence (BI) tool because it is one..

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Business intelligence vs. spreadsheets: What does your business need?

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November 25, 2020

As businesses grow and become more digital, so too does the amount of data available to track and analyze. ..

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Homeware supplier, Caprice makes better inventory management choices with Phocas

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November 16, 2020

Caprice homewares uses Phocas business intelligence (BI) software to make better inventory management..

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Data analytics benefits you don’t get with Excel alone

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July 26, 2019

Many businesses use Excel for good reason. Excel is a best of breed tool for spreadsheets and can be great..

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Are you Excel-reliant? Four reasons to add BI

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May 17, 2019

Many businesses use spreadsheets for a variety of needs. They're a great way to organize information, and if..

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These executive eBooks will help you achieve business success

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February 22, 2018

For more than 15 years, Phocas has helped companies like yours to succeed in a competitive and dynamic..

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Spreadmarts: The Spreadsheet Debate

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September 29, 2016

The term spreadmarts was coined by Wayne Eckerson in 2002. Spreadmarts refers to the partial sets of data..

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[eBook]: Microsoft Excel vs business intelligence: friend or foe?

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July 7, 2016

Spreadsheets are great business tools. There, we said it. And we mean it. We value spreadsheets in our..

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Phocas ranks top in world's largest business intelligence software review

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October 19, 2015

Note: this update refers to previous BARC survey results - since 2015, we've continued to rank highly in..

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Big ROI Gains for Giftware Company, Splosh Australia

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March 24, 2015

Starting in the garage of their suburban Brisbane (Australia) home back in the 1990’s, Splosh now operates..

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Excel and the Art of Confusion

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March 10, 2015

In this guest blog, we're proud to welcome Mike Holtzer. Mike is a highly talented executive, with over 25..

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Ditch the Excel Spreadsheets: Go with Phocas

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September 2, 2014

Spreadsheets are great – in their place. Office life would be hard to imagine without them. But trying to use..

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