Impetus Consulting Group, a gold tier Anaplan partner, and Workiva, a leading provider of cloud solutions for enterprise productivity, have entered into a partnership intended to help organizations improve their financial performance management in a single and transparent environment.

Workiva Wdesk integrates with Anaplan’s enterprise planning and performance management platform, a cloud-based tool with capabilities to consolidate data from disparate sources and support accounting and finance modeling.  By synchronizing the data across the platforms, users can operate a complete cloud-based solution that shortens the consolidation and close process.

“Workiva’s Wdesk platform enables our clients to streamline their financial reporting, compliance and risk management and aligns with our principle of enabling continuous client success,” said Alex Cohen, President of Impetus Consulting Group.

Other benefits of leveraging Wdesk include process automation, full audit trail capabilities, instantaneous updates to financial footnotes, and print quality regulatory reporting.

To learn more about how Workiva Wdesk might benefit you as an Anaplan customer, check our our solution overview: Global Financial Consolidation & Reporting.

Matthew Daniel, a manager at Impetus will be delivering the co-presentation with Lindsay Alexander, Executive Director of Strategic Pricing for Estée Lauder Companies. Their presentation Red-Carpet Ready: How Estée Lauder transformed pricing planning, strategy and analytics from basic to beautiful will describe how the partnership between Estée Lauder and Impetus transformed a disparate, antiquated, Excel heavy process into a robust, global price planning and reporting solution for over 900 users.

Matthew serves as Project Manager for Impetus using Agile and Project Management Professional (PMP) methodologies. He has implemented numerous Anaplan solutions with use cases including strategic pricing, FP&A, budgeting and planning, S&OP, and clinical trials forecasting.

Lindsay is a leader in the finance and strategy organization at the Estée Lauder Companies (ELC), a portfolio of prestige beauty brands that includes Estée Lauder, Clinique, MAC, Jo Malone London, La Mer, Tom Ford Beauty, Too Faced, and many more. Lindsay led a global rollout of Anaplan in 2017 to enable pricing planning, analytics, and decision-making.

Their presentation is scheduled for Tuesday, March 6^th in the Pinyon Ballroom 6 from 11:00am – 11:35am.

For additional information please contact us: info@impetuscg.com.

Impetus Consulting Group is excited to be a Silver Sponsor of Anaplan HUB for a third consecutive year. HUB is the premiere annual Anaplan user conference and a space where industry leaders, experts, and partners can connect with fellow Anaplanners to learn, discover and interact with each other.

Scheduled between March 5th and 7th this year at The Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Anaplan has organized a very impressive lineup including bestselling author and influencer Malcom Gladwell as the event’s keynote speaker.  Over 85 breakout sessions are planned during the conference where leaders from global companies and top experts will share how they’ve maximized the Anaplan platform to solve real and complex issues around their existing processes and technology.

Impetus’ own Matthew Daniel will make a client co-presentation with Lindsay Alexander of Estée Lauder Companies on Tuesday, March 6^th. Their presentation, Red-Carpet Ready: How Estée Lauder transformed pricing planning, strategy and analytics from basic to beautiful starts at 11am in the Pinyon Ballroom.

Impetus will also be featured in the conference’s exhibitor hall and is inviting clients and interested parties to meet with us in our panoramic private meeting suite at the Aria.

For additional information please contact us: info@impetuscg.com.

Impetus Consulting Group is pleased to announce that it has joined the OneCloud partner program. Impetus will leverage the partnership to augment their growing Anaplan practice to provide customers with a new option to connect and automate Anaplan with various cloud and on-prem applications.

“We are excited to have Impetus Consulting Group join the OneCloud partnership program”, said Quin Eddy, Co-Founder and CEO of OneCloud. “The team’s focus on delivering sustainable solutions aligns with OneCloud’s principal of building an ecosystem that is connected and automated.”

Alex Cohen, President of Impetus Consulting Group added: “OneCloud will help us streamline our delivery to provide a self-service automation and integration solution that dovetails with our principle of enabling continuous client success.”

To learn more about OneCloud: https://onecloud.io/

To find out how Impetus can assist you with OneCloud contact us today: info@impetuscg.com

Impetus Consulting Group, a Performance Management services firm, has announced that Karen Trainer has joined them as Managing Director of the West. Impetus is one of the fastest growing consultancies in North America and is a leader in delivering enterprise performance solutions for today’s rapidly changing business and technology landscape.

Ms. Trainer brings a diverse background to the team, having worked in both the Delivery and Sales departments of service organizations, as well as leading efforts in Marketing and Alliance Management. ​

As a member of Impetus’ leadership team, Ms. Trainer will oversee client relationship and business development aspects of the firm’s business within the West region. “A role like this will benefit tremendously from the convergence of Karen’s unique combined experiences,” says Impetus Founder and President Alex Cohen of the hire. “The diversity of her background in the space, the strength of the relationships she has built throughout her career and her cheerful, charismatic nature are all a perfect complement to Impetus’ culture and aspirations.”

“I am so excited to have joined such a talented, thoughtful group,” says Ms. Trainer. “The opportunity to be part of the Impetus team, and together making an impact in the dynamic fast-paced space we work in, is both humbling and inspiring.”

Prior to joining Impetus Ms. Trainer was a Director of Marketing & Alliances at Huron Consulting Group and ADI Strategies (which Huron acquired in 2016). Employed by ADI initially as a Principal Consultant and then Business Development Manager, her pedigree in the Performance Management consulting world stretches back 18 years and includes stints with BearingPoint, IBM and Arthur Andersen.

Ms. Trainer holds a degree in Business Economics from UCLA.

Connect with Karen Trainer via LinkedIn or directly via email at ktrainer@impetuscg.com

To learn more about Impetus Consulting Group, visit www.impetuscg.com.

About Impetus Consulting Group: Founded in 2014, Impetus is a professional services firm committed to providing its clients valuable and actionable analytics that leverage best-in-class tools and proven solutions. Combining its deep technical skills with broad industry and functional knowledge, the Impetus team has a distinctive record implementing integrated solutions for Connected Planning, Sales Operations, Profitability, Strategic Cost Management, and Business Intelligence. Impetus partners with its clients to help them achieve sustainable ROI on their performance management initiatives in today’s rapidly changing business and technology landscape.

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