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Apliqo Testimonials: Improving TM1 with Apliqo UX at Perfection Fresh

In the context of the Cubewise EDU TM1 and Planning Analytics User Conference held in Sydney from August 21 - 23 2019, Cubewise's Jason Tranfield had the opportunity of catching up with Leslie Bogdan and Jennifer Yang and gather their thoughts on implementing Apliqo UX at Perfection Fresh.

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"We are looking to expose the goodness of our TM1 implementation to a wider business community. That is where we see Apliqo UX and all its potential - is really assisting us doing that", says Leslie Bogdan on implementing Apliqo UX at Perfection Fresh.

CASE STUDIES

How

Executive Finance Summit

uses Apliqo

Daniele Tedesco, CEO of Apliqo, let AI agents run a live month-end close, a variance analysis, and a full forecast cycle in front of the room. No slides standing in for the real thing. His argument: the planning rhythm finance has used for 50 years is the actual bottleneck, not the spreadsheets, not the people.

"This is not something in the future. This is reality. This is something we can achieve today."

Daniele Tedesco

CEO at Apliqo

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"It created agility within the workflows by allowing team members to easily adjust plans and forecasts in real-time."

CASE STUDIES

How

Executive Finance Summit

uses Apliqo

Daniele Tedesco, CEO of Apliqo, let AI agents run a live month-end close, a variance analysis, and a full forecast cycle in front of the room. No slides standing in for the real thing. His argument: the planning rhythm finance has used for 50 years is the actual bottleneck, not the spreadsheets, not the people.

"This is not something in the future. This is reality. This is something we can achieve today."

Daniele Tedesco

CEO at Apliqo

Kardex logo

"It created agility within the workflows by allowing team members to easily adjust plans and forecasts in real-time."

CASE STUDIES

How

Executive Finance Summit

uses Apliqo

Daniele Tedesco, CEO of Apliqo, let AI agents run a live month-end close, a variance analysis, and a full forecast cycle in front of the room. No slides standing in for the real thing. His argument: the planning rhythm finance has used for 50 years is the actual bottleneck, not the spreadsheets, not the people.

"This is not something in the future. This is reality. This is something we can achieve today."

Daniele Tedesco

CEO at Apliqo

Kardex logo

"It created agility within the workflows by allowing team members to easily adjust plans and forecasts in real-time."

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