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Streamlining Success: How Charles Tyrwhitt Modernised Their Merchandise Financial Planning
British multi-channel men’s clothing retailer, Charles Tyrwhitt had been using Board software for several years, but their existing solution had become outdated, complex, and slow due to unused elements. The goal for the project was to simplify the existing Board solution and align with updated processes, enhance speed, flexibility, and capabilities by utilising Board’s retail accelerators, ie pre-configured solutions.
The DCF Method explained: How modern property valuation works
Real estate represents significant assets. A precise valuation of such properties is essential – for financial reporting in accordance with international accounting standards such as IFRS, for investor communication or for strategic management decisions. A particularly widespread and recognised method is the Discounted Cash Flow method, or DCF for short. But how exactly does this method work – and why is it considered to be so particularly meaningful?
Agentic AI – the future of EPM?
Artificial Intelligence has already become a fixture in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). While many companies are still familiarising themselves with classic AI functionalities, a new and even more transformative development in the field of AI is already knocking on the door: Agentic AI.
Integrated Financial Planning and Project Controlling at Jonas & Redmann
A globally active company with over 400 employees, Jonas & Redmann was looking for an optimised solution for financial planning and project controlling. The choice of software platform was made in favour of Board, which impressed the customer with a perfect combination of planning and reporting as well as a high degree of flexibility.
Debunking the Biggest Myths About Planning Solutions: What You Really Need to Know
Planning solutions have long been misunderstood as complex, exclusive, or outdated—but the reality is far more exciting. Modern EPM tools are adaptable, user-friendly, and designed to empower businesses of all sizes to make smarter decisions every day.
Why Functional Expertise is Essential in Modern Software Implementations
Functional expertise is essential for successful software implementation in today’s fast-moving, AI-driven landscape. Businesses need partners who offer industry-specific insight and end-to-end solutions that align with strategic goals and unlock competitive advantage.
More transparency – better decisions in the Housing & Real Estate industry
Companies in the housing & real estate industry often work with different systems for financial, housing, maintenance and personnel management. The result: decentralised data silos that make housing industry planning and analysis a challenge.
We will show you how you can gain full transparency of your key figures with a customised software solution!
Accelerating Performance for a British Fashion Retailer
bdg enhanced the performance of a British fashion retailer’s system in Board (version 10) by optimising RAM usage and stabilising their server. The project, completed in just four days, significantly reduced system crashes and downtime, resulting in a more efficient and reliable operational environment.
Maximising Customer Lifetime Value: The Cohort Plan Advantage
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is not just a number – it can be a blueprint for long term success! Enter the cohort plan, a powerful technique that’s revolutionising how businesses optimise CLV.
3 Reasons for BI in HR
Starting in 2025, the days of optional sustainability practices are over for many businesses. Here’s your step-by-step guide to getting ready for ESG reporting!
The Jedox Integrator: Let’s integrate Jedox into … well, everything!
“Jedox (22), looking to build real, deep, and functional connections to interface, integrate and consolidate with each other. Loves to extract, loads, transforms and makes plans for the future together.”
Intelligent inventory optimisation with Board
The clothing division alone has hundreds of thousands of SKUs, making inventory management extremely complex. Efficiently managing the flow of goods therefore requires a highly flexible and reliable processes and software. With Board and bdg, Sainsbury found the ideal solution to optimise inventory management.
Reconciling Finance with HR
An unbalanced talent market – triggered by new ways and forms of working (home office) – and an evolving employee life cycle: workforce management and planning are increasingly becoming an essential part of overall corporate planning. Read the white paper to find out how you can better harmonise business and talent objectives through standardised HR and financial planning and strengthen collaboration between finance and HR in the long term.
Mehr Transparenz – Bessere Entscheidungen in der Wohnungswirtschaft mit Board
Unternehmen der Wohnungswirtschaft arbeiten häufig mit unterschiedlichen Systemen für die Finanz-, Wohnungs-, Instandhaltungs- und Personalverwaltung. Die Folge: dezentrale Datensilos, welche die wohnungswirtschaftliche Planung und Analyse zur Herausforderung machen.
Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie mit einer passgenauen Software-Lösung volle Transparenz über Ihre Kern-Kennzahlen gewinnen!
Better Retail Planning
Do you work in merchandising and are looking for an alternative to Excel when it comes to planning? Read our free guide to retail planning and gain useful insights into planning beyond Excel!
Stronger customer loyalty through intelligent data analysis
Churn is a challenge that affects industries as diverse as telecommunications, media, energy sales and insurance. Companies in these sectors often suffer from high customer fluctuation.
A cohort analysis provides you with crucial transparency: customer groups are defined and their behaviour tracked and analysed. Based on this data, you can take targeted measures to improve customer loyalty.
Restaurant planning at KFC
Good planning is crucial for business success. This is especially true in the fast-food business, where speed of response and quick adaptation to changing consumer trends are essential. As the business grew, so did KFC’s restaurant planning requirements, which meant that the Excel-based planning system was soon unable to keep pace with growth and needed to be replaced with a more powerful solution.
Driver-based Profit and Loss Account with STRATO
STRATO and bdg jointly developed the concept for the implementation of a BI/CPM solution for controlling. Board was chosen as the software; the intuitive and user-friendly design of the application was particularly decisive, enabling it to be used as a self-service BI.
Zalando Category Planning
The classic Excel-based planning process for merchandise planning reached its limits with the constant growth of Zalando, Europe’s largest online platform for fashion. Too time-consuming, error-prone and not very homogeneous: Merchandise planning was no longer in line with the dynamic business environment and was in danger of completely losing sight of important key factors in an overly sluggish planning process.
Zalando relied on bdg to implement a complex solution in Jedox for merchandise planning.
The result: the planning time and effort were radically reduced and the quality of the planning was significantly increased.
Lean management in monthly closing: Process automation in financial accounting EOS
The bdg and EOS project aimed to establish an integrated financial accounting system through automation and process optimization that minimizes manual effort, improves data consistency and reduces the susceptibility to errors. Since the performance management software Jedox was already in use in several corporate departments, the high flexibility of the application should also be used for this project and the new solution should be integrated into the existing application landscape.
Streamlining Success: How Charles Tyrwhitt Modernised Their Merchandise Financial Planning
British multi-channel men’s clothing retailer, Charles Tyrwhitt had been using Board software for several years, but their existing solution had become outdated, complex, and slow due to unused elements. The goal for the project was to simplify the existing Board solution and align with updated processes, enhance speed, flexibility, and capabilities by utilising Board’s retail accelerators, ie pre-configured solutions.
The DCF Method explained: How modern property valuation works
Real estate represents significant assets. A precise valuation of such properties is essential – for financial reporting in accordance with international accounting standards such as IFRS, for investor communication or for strategic management decisions. A particularly widespread and recognised method is the Discounted Cash Flow method, or DCF for short. But how exactly does this method work – and why is it considered to be so particularly meaningful?
Agentic AI – the future of EPM?
Artificial Intelligence has already become a fixture in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM). While many companies are still familiarising themselves with classic AI functionalities, a new and even more transformative development in the field of AI is already knocking on the door: Agentic AI.
Integrated Financial Planning and Project Controlling at Jonas & Redmann
A globally active company with over 400 employees, Jonas & Redmann was looking for an optimised solution for financial planning and project controlling. The choice of software platform was made in favour of Board, which impressed the customer with a perfect combination of planning and reporting as well as a high degree of flexibility.
Debunking the Biggest Myths About Planning Solutions: What You Really Need to Know
Planning solutions have long been misunderstood as complex, exclusive, or outdated—but the reality is far more exciting. Modern EPM tools are adaptable, user-friendly, and designed to empower businesses of all sizes to make smarter decisions every day.
Why Functional Expertise is Essential in Modern Software Implementations
Functional expertise is essential for successful software implementation in today’s fast-moving, AI-driven landscape. Businesses need partners who offer industry-specific insight and end-to-end solutions that align with strategic goals and unlock competitive advantage.
More transparency – better decisions in the Housing & Real Estate industry
Companies in the housing & real estate industry often work with different systems for financial, housing, maintenance and personnel management. The result: decentralised data silos that make housing industry planning and analysis a challenge.
We will show you how you can gain full transparency of your key figures with a customised software solution!
Accelerating Performance for a British Fashion Retailer
bdg enhanced the performance of a British fashion retailer’s system in Board (version 10) by optimising RAM usage and stabilising their server. The project, completed in just four days, significantly reduced system crashes and downtime, resulting in a more efficient and reliable operational environment.
Maximising Customer Lifetime Value: The Cohort Plan Advantage
Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) is not just a number – it can be a blueprint for long term success! Enter the cohort plan, a powerful technique that’s revolutionising how businesses optimise CLV.
3 Reasons for BI in HR
Starting in 2025, the days of optional sustainability practices are over for many businesses. Here’s your step-by-step guide to getting ready for ESG reporting!
The Jedox Integrator: Let’s integrate Jedox into … well, everything!
“Jedox (22), looking to build real, deep, and functional connections to interface, integrate and consolidate with each other. Loves to extract, loads, transforms and makes plans for the future together.”
Intelligent inventory optimisation with Board
The clothing division alone has hundreds of thousands of SKUs, making inventory management extremely complex. Efficiently managing the flow of goods therefore requires a highly flexible and reliable processes and software. With Board and bdg, Sainsbury found the ideal solution to optimise inventory management.
Reconciling Finance with HR
An unbalanced talent market – triggered by new ways and forms of working (home office) – and an evolving employee life cycle: workforce management and planning are increasingly becoming an essential part of overall corporate planning. Read the white paper to find out how you can better harmonise business and talent objectives through standardised HR and financial planning and strengthen collaboration between finance and HR in the long term.
Mehr Transparenz – Bessere Entscheidungen in der Wohnungswirtschaft mit Board
Unternehmen der Wohnungswirtschaft arbeiten häufig mit unterschiedlichen Systemen für die Finanz-, Wohnungs-, Instandhaltungs- und Personalverwaltung. Die Folge: dezentrale Datensilos, welche die wohnungswirtschaftliche Planung und Analyse zur Herausforderung machen.
Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie mit einer passgenauen Software-Lösung volle Transparenz über Ihre Kern-Kennzahlen gewinnen!
Better Retail Planning
Do you work in merchandising and are looking for an alternative to Excel when it comes to planning? Read our free guide to retail planning and gain useful insights into planning beyond Excel!
Stronger customer loyalty through intelligent data analysis
Churn is a challenge that affects industries as diverse as telecommunications, media, energy sales and insurance. Companies in these sectors often suffer from high customer fluctuation.
A cohort analysis provides you with crucial transparency: customer groups are defined and their behaviour tracked and analysed. Based on this data, you can take targeted measures to improve customer loyalty.
Restaurant planning at KFC
Good planning is crucial for business success. This is especially true in the fast-food business, where speed of response and quick adaptation to changing consumer trends are essential. As the business grew, so did KFC’s restaurant planning requirements, which meant that the Excel-based planning system was soon unable to keep pace with growth and needed to be replaced with a more powerful solution.
Driver-based Profit and Loss Account with STRATO
STRATO and bdg jointly developed the concept for the implementation of a BI/CPM solution for controlling. Board was chosen as the software; the intuitive and user-friendly design of the application was particularly decisive, enabling it to be used as a self-service BI.
Zalando Category Planning
The classic Excel-based planning process for merchandise planning reached its limits with the constant growth of Zalando, Europe’s largest online platform for fashion. Too time-consuming, error-prone and not very homogeneous: Merchandise planning was no longer in line with the dynamic business environment and was in danger of completely losing sight of important key factors in an overly sluggish planning process.
Zalando relied on bdg to implement a complex solution in Jedox for merchandise planning.
The result: the planning time and effort were radically reduced and the quality of the planning was significantly increased.
Lean management in monthly closing: Process automation in financial accounting EOS
The bdg and EOS project aimed to establish an integrated financial accounting system through automation and process optimization that minimizes manual effort, improves data consistency and reduces the susceptibility to errors. Since the performance management software Jedox was already in use in several corporate departments, the high flexibility of the application should also be used for this project and the new solution should be integrated into the existing application landscape.
