arcplan Wins Influential New Channel and OEM Partners

    * New partners focus on SAP, Oracle and Microsoft environments
    * Product offerings for controlling, financial intelligence and performance management

Langenfeld, Germany. Sep. 21 2010 – arcplan, an independent provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced the expansion of its partner network with four new Germany-based partners. The consulting firms conovum, RSVP Management Solutions, MFCI Mielke & Franken, and OBS Business Solutions have found arcplan’s leading BI solutions and expertise compelling and have joined the company’s extensive global partner network.

Customized enterprise solutions with SAP

conovum, a consulting firm specializing in finance, business intelligence and travel management, is a new arcplan channel partner. The partnership is the result of a comprehensive software evaluation process undertaken by conovum. This new partner, based in Munich and Rosenheim, mainly focuses on innovations in financial intelligence with a particular emphasis on solutions running in the SAP environment. With arcplan Enterprise, arcplan’s BI platform, conovum is now able to provide its customers with innovative solutions tailored exactly to their requirements.

“conovum’s know-how and project focus are an excellent fit with our SAP expertise, which has recently been confirmed again in the new BI Survey,” says Oliver Deistler, Director Business Development & Channel at arcplan. “For the sixth year in a row, the survey ranks us as the leading third-party frontend for SAP due to our performance, flexibility and ease of use.”

Support for creation of dashboard solutions

RSVP Management Solutions is an international consulting company with expertise in financial controlling and balanced scorecard solutions, as well as management coaching and interim management. Using arcplan Enterprise, arcplan’s new OEM partner in the business and software consulting sectors has developed an innovative dashboard solution. It features sophisticated graphics and is particularly suitable for customers planning to migrate from Oracle/Hyperion Enterprise to Oracle/Hyperion Financial Management. With arcplan Enterprise, RSVP now has a flexible and cost-effective solution at its disposal whose performance exceeds that of the standard tools provided with Oracle/Hyperion.

Additional consulting specialists

Two consulting firms – MFCI Mielke & Franken and OBS Business Solutions. The system house MFCI Mielke & Franken provides comprehensive solutions in the financial controlling, planning and reporting areas and specializes in the Microsoft Dynamics and SQL Server environment. Its customers benefit from assistance in the selection and implementation of IT-based financial controlling systems, as well as management support for the deployment and optimization of existing systems.
OBS Business Solutions has many years of experience in performance management solutions, and focuses its consulting around IBM Cognos TM1 deployments. OBS’' portfolio includes solutions for integrated financial planning, risk management, cost accounting and balanced scorecards, as well as workflow and permissions management.

“We’re very pleased to be able to welcome our new partners into the arcplan network,” comments Oliver Deistler. “The exceptional level of expertise offered by these companies enables us to cover a wide spectrum of customer requirements while continuing to drive targeted growth in our partner network.”

About arcplan

arcplan is an established independent business intelligence solution provider delivering timely, contextual and actionable information that empowers businesses to improve business perfor-mance while leveraging existing infrastructure. Since 1993, arcplan has enabled more than 2,800 customers worldwide to achieve organizational efficiency through the powerful combina-tion of information and analysis proving beneficial to the bottom line. Get more information at www.arcplan.com.

arcplan’s flagship product arcplan Enterprise® was rated the #1 3rd party tool for SAP BW, Essbase, and TM1 in The BI Survey 9 (2010).