Adaptive Planning once again finds itself flush with new investment after stringing together several years of consistently impressive growth.

Anyone who's ever found himself or herself embroiled in a complicated network of interconnected spreadsheets knows that business data can get confusing in a hurry. Compared to the simplicity of everyday consumer applications, many budgeting and forecasting software offerings can seem unnecessarily obtuse. That's why usability topped the list of considerations for CIOs choosing business intelligence technology.

Leading cloud financial and business intelligence software provider Adaptive Planning recently announced the release of a new product aimed at helping companies manage the increasingly complex oversight challenges of close-and-disclose financial consolidations and analysis.

The Oscars may be over, but it's time to roll out the red carpet for the SIIA CODiE Awards, the prominent peer-recognized award program for the content, education and software industries. Leading business analytics, budgeting and forecasting software Adaptive Planning is among the award finalists for 2013, having been nominated in two categories.

Cloud ERP software is perfectly positioned to deliver the customization manufacturers demand.

A team of in-house auditors put it rather plainly in a report suggesting that the U.S. Army doesn't have a sound strategy for managing key ERP software assets, nor does it make full use of the technologies it has in place.

Companies must focus on finding an ERP software provider that can support an ecosystem of accurate and integrated operational intelligence.

Cloud financial software vendors may have to apply that last bit of pressure to convince skeptical CFOs that it's officially time to hop off the fence.

Cloud ERP software platforms seem perfectly positioned to offer what manufacturing firms have long been looking for a method of centralizing and accelerating data delivery as operations expand.

Adaptive Planning is not afraid to postpone profits and invest in innovation.

Cloud applications are helping companies deconstruct the complexity of standard ERP software and employ better-suited solutions.

Cloud ERP software is ready to support swift course corrections, assuming users are willing.

Cloud ERP software providers may investigate bolder social media integration strategies that give both internal and external customers a stronger voice.

Cloud financial software is disrupting the ERP application market from all angles.

Evolving tools and fresh mindsets could bode well for cloud financial software suppliers in 2013.