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Let's turn some Datarails customer stories into movie posters. ?????? 1. Plumb Bill Pay in "???????? ???? ????????????" Plumb Bill Pay is a seasoned third-party accounting firm headquartered in California Timothy Pico, Controller at ThinkPlumb, says: "We were looking for a tool to marry Excel and accounting software; QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, and others. Datarails has greatly improved the time it takes us to prepare financials for clients. 2. Alasko in "Don't Stay Late" The finance team at Canada's largest frozen fruit and veg wholesales went from taking weeks to consolidating files, to one day. Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at Alasko Tereza S. says: “It’s a great tool. I also work with BI systems and I know that you cannot build your data or the tables the way that Datarails does.” 3. American Board of Internal Medicine in "The Drilldown" ABIM, the American Board of Internal Medicine, is an 80-year-old Philadelphia-based physician-led, non-profit. Robert Kendrick VP of Finance, American Board of Internal Medicine says: "What I love about Datarails is you can drill down on a number and format what the output is going to look like.” 4. Nova Medical Centers in "?????????????????? ?????????? ??????????" The native integration with Excel was a clincher for choosing Datarails, explains Melissa McKenzie , Project Manager at Nova Medical Centers. She says: “Everybody loves Excel and having a tool that works with Excel, and not against it,?is a huge plus." 5. Butternut Box | B Corp in Unleashed Fresh dog food provider, Butternut Box uses Datarails to improve its financial reporting and planning, increase the finance team’s capacity, improve collaboration and agility. Charlotte Kelly, Head of FP&A: "Thank goodness we went ahead with Datarails, because there’s no way we’d be where we are as a team without it.” 6. Kirmac Collision & Autoglass in Integrity Ignition Kirmac is a British Columbia (BC) leader in the auto body repair shop industry. Jeff Mackay, CPA, CMA, Director of Finance, Kirmac says: "You can just refresh the information and have confidence in your data.” 7. MyCarrier in ?????????????? ???????? MyCarrier just clocked a record 2.5 million automated shipments –?and they needed something to help with their financial close, the long process of verifying and adjusting balances at the end of a quarter. Kyle Harris, VP Finance says: "Datarails means Comfort and Time Saved." 8. Great Falls Clinic in ?????? ???????????????? ?????????????? Great Falls used to have disconnected systems. Now finance is having strategic finance discussions across the 60 managers at the organization. Justin Donaldson, MBA adds that business partners no longer have to understand and work with complex Excel spreadsheets. The Datarails dashboards, in particular, helps them visually see and understand the data.? Be part of the next great finance story (get in touch).??

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Nearly 500 finance leaders have registered so far. Even if you can't make it, register to get the recording: https://hubs.li/Q0398FPT0 Join Tory Bauman, CPA VP FP&A at Zayo Group and Brian Spitler, FP&A Solutions Consultant at Datarails (and Ex-FP&A at Steinway & Sons), as they share real-world experiences and expert strategies for improving FP&A planning. Tory offers a firsthand perspective on the challenges finance teams encounter and how they navigate them, while Brian will provide insights from working with FP&A leaders on solutions—that drive efficiency and impact.

Is Excel dead? Nope. Excel is the future of FP&A. 6 striking images: Why have we poked our Datarails?AI vibranium FP&A super serum deep into the veins of the green-back invincible, known as Excel? 1) "Easy Peasy, Excel Squeezy" Nothing is more intuitive than Excel. If you know Excel you already know Datarails. Competing FP&A solutions often require users to adopt new interfaces or systems. This involves a steep learning curve or significant changes to existing processes. 2) But what is Excel’s ancient secret? Flexibility, Familiarity, Ease of use, and its Essential role for anyone in finance. This means Excel is Not Going Anywhere. 3) Man Plans, Excel Laughs But... Excel has limitations for deep insight and propensity for error. Excel is the best tool due to its flexibility, familiarity, and ease of use. However, at the same time, finance teams face limitations with Excel when faced with complex, large-scale data and an inability to carry out deep and accurate analysis. Finance teams seek a solution retaining the flexibility of Excel while overcoming these constraints. (That's where Datarails comes in) 4) “Put your big ideas here” Someone once hilariously said no great ideas came from a spreadsheet. But billions of dollars of ideas came from FP&A killer analysis using Excel. From Amazon Prime to new IBM products and services. Products from dog bowls, donuts, drugs and Diapers rely on Details for budgeting, storytelling, planning, forecasting and game-changing analysis. 5) But is Excel bringing out the best in you? More bluntly, are you wearing Excel or letting Excel wear you? You need to make your Excel work for your ladder-climbing red carpet appearances and the needs of your company. Turn your raw Excel into game-changing dashboards. Or let our AI (trained on your actual real numbers!) tell you stuff you didn't even know to ask about your business. See around corners. Feel confident in what you are wearing by having (sometimes for the first time!) consolidated from data across your business. Know your company cold, and feel confident again. (All with the Excel sheets you know and love) 6) "You can have my excel, after you ripped it from my cold, dead hands.” The starting and end point . You will see lots of posts saying Excel is dead. Not even close. Excel is the future of FP&A. Don't Replace Excel. Embrace Excel.