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”Jonova is the Company to Watch” says Leading Analyst Firm
July 21st, 2011
Jonova, Inc., Sales and operations planning (S&OP) isn’t new to the chemical industry says Gartner Group. Over 90% of companies have a formal process to make decisions for over two-thirds of their business operations. But the industry’s S&OP process maturation hasn’t kept pace with increases in competition, … Jonova is a company to watch.
”Under Integrated Business Planning Jonova is most Notable” says Leading Analyst Firm
July 6th, 2011
Gartner says under Long-term, integrated, business planning applications—Most notable in this category are vendors like Jonova. Unlike tactical S&OP application vendors, this group focuses on analyzing the long-term effect of strategic alternatives on finance, R&D, operations, and sales and marketing. For example, what are the effects of the decision to manufacture in Brazil versus China on profit margins, service levels, and tax structure? The strength of this category stems from the ability to conduct simulation-based, what-if analysis to quantify the long-term financial, strategic, and supply chain effects associated with various product, channel, and customer portfolios.
”Jonova is identified as a Cool Vendor in the Business Analytics Category”, Gartner Group
April 18th, 2011
Gartner Cool Vendors in Analytics, BI and Performance Management Report. Why Cool: The larger and more complex the enterprise, the harder it is to establish targets and allocate resources across multiple functions and business units, some of which have conflicting objectives. Jonova enables enterprises to model all their plans (financial, R&D, operations, sales and marketing, and strategic) in a single coordinated application. Jonova combines enterprise wide planning, profitability modeling and optimization (driver- and activity-based management) and strategy management (score carding and key performance indicator [KPI] reporting). Jonova enables the comprehensive measurement of plans at all levels combined with both KPIs (such as costs, profitability, ROI and customer/portfolio metrics) and key risk indicators (such as capacity risk, revenue risk, and customer or portfolio optimization risks). Jonova’s integrated processes streamline the overall management of planning and reporting, and eliminate disconnects that break the alignment from operational activity to strategy and financial outcomes. Benefits include:
”Integrating Strategic Planning With Jonova”, Ventana Research
November 27th, 2010
We’ve focused attention of integrated business planning for the past several years as our benchmark research on business planning and other related topics consistently finds companies are not getting enough of a return on the considerable amount of time and effort they spend on budgeting and planning. Moreover, the current economic climate makes substantive contingency planning more important than ever. Our research finds that there is a great deal of planning going on. Most managers and executives participate in multiple planning exercises, although these are focused on their own business silo and do not have a firm, ongoing connection with other plans…
”Solutions for Profitability Modeling and Optimization Prove to Be Strategic for Finance Groups”, Gartner Group
October 25th, 2010
Jonova combines enterprise wide planning, PM&O (driver- and activity- … to support overhead cost planning and profitability analysis. Jonova enables the rapid construction of models to support … Large European and U.S. enterprises should consider Jonova, particularly if they have complex organizational structures and …
”Using the Right Software for Contingency Planning”, Ventana Research
August 13th, 2010
Using the wrong software is one reason why companies have a hard time doing contingency planning in an integrated enterprise framework. One of the vendors offering software explicitly for integrated planning is Jonova…. The company’s Explorer Software Suite is designed to enable companies to quickly do detailed scenario planning in order to understand both the operational and financial consequences of various assumptions and conditions. It supports driver based planning, a necessary capability for quickly understanding the consequences of changes to volumes, configurations and prices. As such, companies are better able to determine, for example, the impact on margins and cash flow from different set of changes to a plan in order to optimize a trade-off between profitability and market share. It has built-in dashboards, charts and graphs but can be adapted to any existing software a company may have for this purpose.
Jonova rated “Promising” by Leading Analyst Firm
October 21, 2009
Jonova, Inc., the leading provider of integrated business planning and performance management software , today announced its designation as “Promising” in Gartner’s MarketScope for Sales and Operations Planning, 2009” primarily because of the company’s strength in the newly emerging Integrated Business Planning market. Gartner describes the Jonova solution as “a flexible modeling and reporting environment that can mimic the complexities of real-world business processes and allows for the development of multiple scenarios, each evaluated with strong financial acuity and performance management capabilities. This makes it particularly relevant for longer-term planning, within the context of integrating operational, strategic and financial plans, but it always does a good job of evaluating what-ifs for shorter-term horizons”
Integrated Business Planning Validated by Ventana Research
May 1, 2009
Today Jonova announced the availability of research they sponsored with Ventana Research studying the implications of Integrated Business Planning. Robert Kugel, Senior Vice President and Research Director at Ventana writes “Our research demonstrates the value that companies can achieve by making substantive changes to their planning activities – making them more agile and comprehensive and integrating them across their enterprise. Using planning more effectively, they can have more accurate plans, ones that are better aligned with strategy and coordinated across the company – plans that enable executives and managers to adapt faster to change and do so in a more coordinated fashion. In other words, they can have plans that are a more effective management tool, which can boost revenues, lower costs and improve competitiveness in a consistent, ongoing fashion.
Jonova Announces Company Explorer®
Supply Chain World
March 26, 2006
Jonova announces the general availability of Company Explorer, the fourth component in its advanced suite of cross functional business simulation software. Company Explorer was specifically designed for the needs of large multinational manufacturers with multiple divisions, businesses and product lines that must determine how to best manage their combined global assets. Complex financial structures and shared assets can be extensively modeled and simulated to maximize ROI, minimize risk, compare potential investment decisions and optimize shared resources.
