News & Events

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Past Events

August 11, 2009 Webcast – Performance Optimization in Healthcare: Making Profitability Visible and Managing It
08/13/2009

Alta Via Consulting together with myDIALS is presenting its next webinar on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 called Performance Optimization in Healthcare: Making Profitability Visible and Managing It. For health care organizations, profitability is a key factor to thriving. Aligning your financial performance optimization to your organization’s operational metrics is vital on a daily and even hourly basis for making informed decisions. This webinar highlights how to improve upon the traditional costing approach and allows full visualization plus various drill-down capabilities that caters to both C-Suite executives and individual managers who need critical and timely costing information. There is no cost to attend this event but online registration is required prior to the webcast.

July 16, 2009 Webcast - Resource Consumption Accounting: Linking Operations and Finance to Drive Business Performance
07/01/2009

Alta Via Consulting, webinar sponsor and the RCA Institute is working with MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise and Systems Association) to demonstrate the benefits of how RCA can link operational metrics-to-financial ERP data. Resource Consumption Accounting: Linking Operations and Finance to Drive Business Performance is the focus of this webinar and the experience and results that Neenah Paper has achieved by implementing RCA that subsequently enhanced its operational and business decision support capabilities for their production and support processes.  Neenah installed a new ERP system which met their external reporting needs; however, it did not offer visibility into their manufacturing costs, or product / client profitability.  This webinar identifies the root cause of the problem that exists between financial and operational metrics.  There is no cost to attend this event but online registration is required prior to the webcast.

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Latest News

CeBIT March 2009 Tradeshow
03/03/2009-03/08/2009

Alta Via Consulting's EU personnel participated at the Annual CeBIT Tradeshow held in Hannover, Germany from March 3-8, 2009. Our booth was part of Jedox's 1500 square feet display, and offered personalized demonstrations highlighting the capabilities of Palos. The Jedox product has garnered considerable attention for its ease of use in addressing spreadsheet chaos for planning, analysis and reporting that many companies struggle with. The Palo product interfaces seamlessly with popular spreadsheet software such as MS-Excel.

As a co-exhibitor with business partner Jedox, this year's show attracted 4,300 companies from 69 countries with over 400,000 visitors. The Jedox booth sported a sailboat in Hall 4, adjacent to the SAP and Microsoft exhibitors (see photo below). The Jedox/PALO booth was stationed by Alta Via representatives Julien Delvat, Joerg Funke, Peter Von Zimmerman, Marcus Hahn and Hans-Hermann Soll who were very active, discussing PALO’s capabilities, complete with multi-lingual demonstrations to all interested parties. Overall, the tradeshow was a huge success by generating leads, increasing awareness and ongoing product support to an international audience.
For more information on Jedox click here.

Alta Via Hosts BI Webcast for PALO
02/24/2009

Alta Via sponsored its first Jedox webinar on 02/24/09 called Discover PALO; an open-source application for Business Intelligence, and discussed why PALO will become your primary centralized spreadsheet solution. The webcast illustrates how PALO can help you plan faster, analyze smarter and report better. This presentation includes: how to create a cube with corresponding dimensions; importing of data; and illustrates multidimensional reporting functionality, showing how individual PALO users can select and define their own database parameters. To access this free informative PALO webinar click here.

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2008 News

New Partnership With Jedox
10/06/2008

Alta Via Consulting is proud to announce its partnership with Jedox Enterprise Spreadsheets. Jedox offers a true multi-user solution to the common spreadsheet chaos and is especially useful for small to mid-size firms. The ease with which spreadsheets are typically duplicated, changed and distributed by e-mail creates serious problems and often results in spreadsheet chaos with redundant, segmented and out-of-date business information. The fundamental principle behind Enterprise Spreadsheets is the existence of a powerful Excel back-end that enables data consistency in spreadsheets. To learn more about our Jedox partnership...

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Just Published Part 2 of 3 in Debating the Principles Series
10/01/2008

The latest article in a three part series Debating the Principles: Asking Questions of Lean Accounting by Anton van der Merwe has now been published in the September/October 2008 edition of Cost Management magazine. This paper is the second in a series that highlights questions and concerns with the principles that underlie some existing management accounting (MA) approaches.  The focus of this 'Debating the Principles' series discusses the foundational principles in MA conducive to effective decision support. The first article published looked at the Theory of Constraints (TOC): the Scientific Method and its use of relevance as a guiding principle, while the third and final paper examines Activity-Based Costing (ABC) and its dominant principle of work.

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Alta Via Working with Manufacturing Enterprise and Systems Association (MESA) Metrics Committee
09/28/2008

Alta Via consultant, John Jackiw, has recently been invited to participate on the MESA (Manufacturing Enterprise and Systems Association) International Metrics Committee. John has been an active member of MESA for 6 years and will be working with this group to develop best practices and white papers in linking manufacturing metrics-to-financials ERP data. For more information on the MESA organization visit www.mesa.org.