Clarity Systems breaks the financial reporting mould

FSN

It is perhaps unsurprising then that Clarity Systems' strategic briefing event in London last month at which it set out its strategy for growth attracted significant interest from a range of household names in the FTSE 100. CLARITY FSR is filling rapidly the vacuum in capability left by IBM, SAP and Oracle following the acquisitions of Cognos, Business Objects and Hyperion. Read more...

The XBRL Head Fake

Business Finance Magazine

"The scope and impact of this rule is large in market terms, because it requires all publicly listed U.S. and foreign firms who operate in the U.S. to file in XBRL over the next three years," explains Mark Nashman, president and chief technology officer of Clarity Systems. Read more...

Clarity Systems launches budgeting, planning and reporting for Lawyers

FSN

Clarity Systems, a supplier of corporate performance management solutions, has launched CLARITY 6 Legal Edition 2.0, a newly enhanced budgeting, planning, and reporting software solution for professional services organisations. Read more...

Clarity Systems launches budgeting, planning and reporting for Lawyers

Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal

Clarity Systems partners with EDGARfilings to offer a seamlessly integrated financial reporting solution. Read more...

Clarity Systems and EDGARfilings partner to automate SEC Filings

FSN

"With compliance and financial reporting requirements being top of mind for companies, adopting software solutions to streamline the process is a high priority," says Andrew Neblett, CEO, EDGARfilings. Read more...

Toronto's Clarity Systems partners to ease SEC filing

ComputerWorld Canada

Filing for the SEC is taking on new prominence in many enterprise firms, including those with Canadian subsidiaries, as Sarbanes-Oxley and other rules have heightened governance processes. Read more...

Clarity Partners with EDGARfilings on Financial Reporting Solution

TMCnet.com

This partnership lets public companies "create SEC reports using Clarity Financial Statement Reporting and electronically file these reports with the SEC using EDGARizer software," Clarity and EDGARfilings officials say. Read more...

Clarity Systems and EDGARfilings Announce Partnership

Business Intelligence Network

This partnership is an exciting opportunity for public companies as they can now create SEC reports using CLARITY FSR and electronically file these reports with the SEC using EDGARizer software. Read more...

Clarity Systems Reports Record Year-End 2007 Results

FSN

Clarity Systems, one of the few remaining providers of CPM solutions, has announced record results for the company's full fiscal year, ending September 30, 2007. Read more...

Clarity Announces Year-End Results, '100 Percent' License Growth

TMCnet.com

Clarity officials say there was "significant growth" in its customer base across North America and the United Kingdom, with such additions as Intel Corporation, JetBlue Airways, F5 Networks, Orlando Aviation Authority, Russell Stover Candies, and EMS Technologies. Read more...

Caveat Emptor: The Impact of Vendor Consolidation on BPM Buyers

Business Intelligence Network

BPM Partners Vice President names Clarity Systems a leading vendor in the Corporate Performance Management & Business Intelligence market. Read more...

SAP goes head to head with Oracle leaving other independents with a clear field

FSN

Clarity Systems continues to flourish as an independent software house trading on the quality of its domain knowledge and ability to deliver more nimbly than some of its larger competitors. Read more...

Taking Care of Business

CIO Canada

Since building a BI tool for sales people to view their performance on a daily basis, “there isn’t a rep around who doesn’t get up in the morning, log on from home, and see how they did against their sales targets of the day before,” says John Melodysta, CAO at Grand & Toy. Read more...

Budgeting Software Grows Up

Accounting Technology

Accounting Technology proves that spreadsheets are a thing of the past and budgeting software like CLARITY 6 - with its strong Excel look and feel, workflow control, and versioning of budgets - is the way of the future. Read more...

Get 'Em Hooked

Housing Giants Magazine

Paul Hill, COO of Clarity Systems, has approximately a dozen inside and outside salespeople and says Clarity’s key to retention is their appeal to salespeople’s entrepreneurial aspirations. Read more...

What's Hot This Summer

CFO Magazine

An outside observer might read a description of the statutory reporting program and dismiss it as no big deal. But to finance-department staffers who manually crank out reams of reports for regulators, CLARITY FSR is a godsend. Read more...

Grand & Toy gets business performance clarity

ComputerWorld Canada

John Melodysta, chief administrative officer at Grand & Toy, said that using Clarity solutions for KPI reporting, identifying order defections, combating sales divergence, and even revamping their payroll system, has helped ROI as well as the company’s overall efficiency. Read more...

Exclusive Interview with Frank Pizzolato

Business Intelligence Network

Frank Pizzolato discusses the critical importance of performance management and explains how CLARITY 6 offers the flexibility, security and control needed to make informed business decisions and meet compliance requirements. Read more...

Clarity Systems launches new version of CPM with CLARITY 6.1

FSN

The latest version of Clarity software includes tighter Microsoft Office Integration so that users can now move Clarity reports from the web into MS-Excel, MS-Word and MS-PowerPoint and can launch and refresh Clarity reports from inside MS-Office applications. Read more...

Software to Close By

Business Finance

CLARITY 6 recognized as an application that will help financial departments streamline and speed up their closing processes. Read more...

Clarity Systems Announces CLARITY 6.1

DM Review

The new features of CLARITY 6.1 gives organizations enhanced capabilities for improving corporate performance across the enterprise. Read more...

Oracle and Hyperion versus SAP and OutlookSoft

FSN

CEO Frank Pizzolato weighs in on the recent acquisitions in the competitive ERP landscape and explains how these changes will have a positive impact on Clarity Systems. Read more...

Omron brings clarity to its financials

Plant Magazine

When Omron Healthcare signed on with Clarity Systems five years ago, web-based systems were on the cutting edge and for the adventurous. Today they are critical to saving time and money. Read more...

Clarity Systems joins Oracle PartnerNetwork

FSN

Clarity Systems has joined the Oracle PartnerNetwork and will support Oracle Database 10g. The announcement formalises a long standing relationship with Oracle and extends Clarity's policy of multi-platform support, which includes the popular Essbase database. Read more...

Unified system brings Clarity to Grand & Toy’s forecasting

Stores

Imagine a software solution so comprehensive and integrated that everyone from top executives to commercial sales reps could view any aspect of the company’s performance. Leading Canadian office products supplier Grand & Toy has been doing just that for years, and company executives say the Clarity Systems software has taken performance management to a whole new level. Read more...

Customer care portal

ComputerWorld Canada

Toronto’s Clarity Systems has launched Clarity Customer Care, an online customer self service portal designed to help customers maximize the value of their CPM investments. Read more...

Southwest Airlines Selects Clarity Systems

Business Intelligence Network

Southwest Airlines has selected CLARITY 6 software as a single integrated solution for corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting. Read more...

Clarity Systems Launches New Web-based Customer Portal

Align Journal

By leveraging salesforce.com’s technology, the new customer portal will improve case turnaround time by operating as a full-time, online customer support and information delivery center. The result will be greater efficiency and flexibility for customers. Read more...

New Products - Tails and Dogs

Accounting Today/WebCPA

As everyone knows, the ultimate purpose of any business is the production of financial statements. Factories are built, employees hired, capital invested, and the entire machinery of modern business called into play solely to facilitate the creation of 10Ks, 10Qs and the like. So why, Clarity Systems asks, is the "last mile" of reporting so difficult? Read more...

Maximize Business Performance: 2007 Core Business Performance Management Vendors

DM Review

This is BPM Partners' second annual look at the core business performance management (BPM) vendors. Clarity Systems is listed as one of the top nine vendors in the BPM space. Read more...

Clarity Systems Announces New Customer Self-Serve Portal

TMCnet.com

The new portal streamlines the case management process, allowing users to log, update and track their support cases while retrieving information from and contributing information to the Clarity Systems knowledge base. Read more...

Clarity Systems Launches New Web-Based Customer Portal

DM Review

Clarity's new customer care portal will improve case turnaround time by operating as a full-time, online customer support and information delivery center. Read more...

Clarity Systems Launches Clarity Customer Care

Business Intelligence Network

Clarity Customer Care is designed to help customers maximize the value of their corporate performance management investment. Read more...

Clarity Systems provides online customer self service portal

itbusiness.ca

Clarity Systems announced the availability of Clarity Customer Care - an online customer self service portal designed to help customers maximize the value of their CPM investment. Read more...

Clarity Systems announces the availability of Clarity Customer Care

TMCnet.com

Clarity Customer Care, a "new online customer self service portal" for customers, integrates with Salesforce, Clarity's customer relationship management and case management tool, for customer access to data regarding their account. Read more...

Bringing Clarity to Corporate Performance Management

ITWorldCanada.com

Knight Frank LLP say benefits from deploying CLARITY 6, include quicker data processing, faster planning of departmental budgets, as well as increased flexibility, security and visibility. Read more...

Performance Management – what are the risks and rewards of a unified application?

FSN

While there are benefits to bringing together Performance Management applications onto a single platform, it is important to understand the level of integration you need between the various elements that comprise a fully-functional solution. Read more...

Office Supply Firm's Performance is a Work in Progress

Intelligent Enterprise

More than three years ago Grand & Toy launched performance management applications for product-sales analysis and budgeting, and it has since built applications for the supply chain, call centers, retail stores, CRM, commercial sales and vital accounts, among other areas. Read more...

Why Forecasting is coming of age

FSN

Not every journey proceeds according to plan - frequent, timely updates of what lies ahead are needed to avoid the obstacles that lay in wait. Read more...

Budgeting: Is there Method in the Madness?

FSN

Budgeting appears a straightforward and worthy exercise on the surface but the process can become dysfunctional if organizations don’t have a clear focus. Read more...

New Product News

DM Review

Using CLARITY FSR , reports are dynamically driven from a central database, while leveraging the formatting capabilities of MS-Word - allowing for the production of formatted reports with the appropriate commentary and supplementary notes. Read more...

Easing the Pain of Financial Reporting

Wall Street & Technology

At most Wall Street firms, the preparing of quarterly and annual reports is a tense, stressful time of Excel files being emailed back and forth and behind-closed-door meetings at which financial numbers are presented, reviewed and approved. Read more...

What tools are you planning on?

FSN

Planning may be central to Performance Management, but how much of a focus is it for Performance Management systems and the people that implement them? Read more...

Tackling financial reporting’s “last mile”

ComputerWorld Canada

Toronto’s Clarity Systems has launched Clarity Financial Statement Reporting, a tool where external reports are dynamically driven from a central database. Read more...

Interview with Frank Pizzolato, CEO Clarity Systems

FSN

Clarity's CEO, Frank Pizzolato, talks to Gary Simon, FSN's managing editor, about his vision for performance management and the opportunities he sees for providers in the market. Read more...

Annual Business Performance Management Software Buyers Guide

Business Finance

This BPM software buyers guide highlights Clarity Systems' improved workflow, security and embedded metadata management. Read more...