Blog Posts & Events
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Breaking the Excel Barrier: How SmartView Empowers Planners Without Forcing a Leap
For many supply and demand planners, Excel isn’t just a tool—it’s home base. It’s where models live, where forecasts are built, and where daily decisions are made. But as organizations push for more scalable, intelligent planning systems, there’s often an unspoken anxiety in the room: Will I have to give up Excel? The short answer: No—and you shouldn’t have to. At Promethean Analytics, we’ve seen this firsthand in countless sales calls and project kickoffs. Planners hesitate not because they...
Migrating Historical Data to NSPB with NSAW and Oracle Autonomous Database
When migrating to a new planning platform like NetSuite NSPB or Oracle EPM/PBCS, one of the most time-consuming challenges is bringing over historical data from your previous ERP or transactional system. Whether you're moving off legacy platforms or consolidating multiple data sources, you need a clean, scalable, and repeatable process to get that data into your new environment. Two robust approaches can facilitate this migration: utilizing NetSuite Analytics Warehouse (NSAW) in conjunction...
Navigating the Tariff Trap with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management
In a world where global supply chains are already under pressure from fluctuating demand, geopolitical instability, and material shortages, tariffs add yet another unpredictable variable to the mix. Businesses that fail to account for these sudden cost changes risk eroding profit margins, misallocating inventory, or worse—losing market share to more agile competitors. At Promethean Analytics, we understand how these complexities ripple through every layer of the supply chain. Let’s explore how...
Introducing the Promethean Premium Accelerator: Speed, Accuracy, and Insight at Scale
In today's fast-paced business environment, Finance teams are under constant pressure to deliver faster forecasts, more accurate budgets, and clearer insights—without sacrificing precision or control. That’s why we built the Promethean Premium Accelerator: a performance-driven high scale planning solution that transforms how organizations approach planning, forecasting, and reporting using Oracle Cloud EPM. Accelerated Enterprise-Scale Planning with No Trade-Offs Our Premium Accelerator is...
Solving Hybrid EPM Bottlenecks – A Groovy Approach
Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions, whether deployed via Oracle's Enterprise Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (EPBCS) or NetSuite Planning and Budgeting (NSPB), often involve complex planning models. While these models are powerful, they can also introduce performance bottlenecks that traditional business rules or out-of-the-box tools struggle to resolve. These bottlenecks can lead to suboptimal design choices, an inability to solve critical business problems, and...
How to Optimize Supply Chain Planning with NetSuite – 5 Proven Tips
Inefficient supply chain planning can hinder growth and profitability. As companies scale, they often struggle with disjointed planning processes, multiple non-integrated systems, inaccurate forecasts, and limited visibility across their supply chain. The good news? With the right approach and tools like NetSuite, you can transform your supply chain planning for improved efficiency and profitability. In this post, we’ll share five proven tips to help you optimize your NetSuite implementation...
Streamline Business Operations with NetSuite
In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations require robust systems to streamline operations, enhance efficiency, and drive growth. NetSuite, a comprehensive cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning solution, offers businesses the tools needed to integrate and manage various functions seamlessly. Comprehensive Integration Across Business Functions NetSuite ERP provides an integrated suite for managing accounting, order processing, inventory management, production, supply chain,...
Promethean Presentations at SuiteWorld 2024
NetSuite's annual conference will run from 9/9/24 to 9/12/24. Promethean Analytics is bringing their experience and in-depth knowledge of NetSuite, NSPB, NSAW and Oracle EPM solutions. We are excited to share our knowledge and know-how with you. Our list of presentations and booth location will be listed soon. In the meantime, join us at this amazing conference. The content and sessions are useful, hands on sessions give you in-depth training, and you also get access to key Promethean and...
NetSuite Analytics Warehouse: Key Features and Modules
NetSuite Analytics Warehouse: Key Features and Modules: With so much data available today, it's more important than ever to have a tool that can help you make sense of it all. NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, or NSAW is just that – a powerful tool that allows you to integrate your core NetSuite data with external data sources, transforming and automating the reporting process. NSAW is easy to use and provides users with the ability to generate custom reports quickly and easily. If you're...
Next Generation Analytics – Four Reasons for NSAW
Next Generation Analytics: 4 Reasons for NSAW: One of the most anticipated launches of the past year in the ERP world has to be the NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, or NSAW. Built on the Oracle Analytics Cloud and the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, NSAW is a true out the box solution for data warehousing and analytics. Developed specifically for the NetSuite ecosystem, it consolidates your NetSuite ERP and multiple external data sources into intuitive, insightful dashboards for agile,...
Case Studies & Webinars
Higher Education and EPBCS Part 2 – Position Planning
In our last blog post, we examined how our Higher Education Accelerator is uniquely positioned to answer some of the fundamental questions that universities and colleges are experiencing on a daily basis. Namely, how to navigate the COVID crisis and provide...
Now Introducing: Accelerators 3.0
Promethean Analytics has, and always will be, a company that is driven by the successes of our clients. We take great pride in our ability to not just meet current needs but also develop and introduce innovative approaches to solve a clients newest, or most...
Three Key Groovy Resources
On March 23, we were invited to give a presentation at Interrel’s 2020 virtual conference, Uncertainty Planning: Minimizing Recession Risk with EPM. We were represented by Bill Reddy and Gerry Villamil,who gave their 45 minute talk and workshop session, “Your Business...
Zero to Essbase in 30 Days
Learn how to easily create a new application and load data to easily get up and running with your first Essbase Cloud Application. Click to view recorded session.
Essbase in the Cloud has Arrived!
Introductory webinar with solution demonstration and migration best practices. Click to view recorded session.